Challenges of Parenting and Shifting Perspectives

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The speaker discusses the struggles parents face in teaching and correcting their children without resorting to yelling or power struggles, emphasizing the importance of shifting perspectives and understanding our own emotions. The chapter also briefly mentions a sponsor, Momentus Sleep Pack.

The thing about parenting is that it’s always thrusting us into situations we have to deal with, we have to solve, we have to correct, we have to stop. Our kids aren’t listening. Our kids did something dangerous. Our kids failed a class. Our kids are drifting in a direction that worries us.

Of course, there are some parents who are oblivious to all this, just generally hands-off. But the rest of us, who are just doing the best we can, struggle with these situations. We don’t want to yell, but that’s what we end up doing. We want to teach and instruct, but it somehow devolves into a power struggle. We fail to reach them, fail to teach them.

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