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Oh look! Lily is actually not completely wrong about something for a change. It is indeed pretty pointless to blame a literal infant for a lack of disciplin.
That being said, the other moral of the episode is that you shouldn't dump your baby on someone without making sure that they actually have the time to take care of it. Twilight had an entire day of pre-arranged obligations to take care of, and thus no time properly babysit a special needs child like Flurry. Cadance and Shinign Armor dumped their baby on Twilight at the last minute, just when she was about to leave the house, without bothering to check ahead, and despite the fact that they have a fulltime babysitter on their payroll and enough money to hire more as needed.
Of course, Lily makes her general point there about children rather than babies, so that probably relates more to her general hatred for her parents and anyone demanding any amount of discipline and self control from her. Remember, she thinks herself cool and extra smart for never doing her homework.
Jerry does all this moral grandstanding but you know for a fact that if you left *any* child with him he'd chuck 'em out the window the second they started crying.