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#448: Your Son Isn't Lazy — How to Empower Boys to Succeed

The Art of Manliness

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How to Overparent Your Kids

I think another response, a common response parents do, is like they'll just basically do everything for their kids. Make them do chores and that's the same thing, make them take out the trash, it's really important. And I talk about the four or five different types of overparenting that we get into with kids. But I also tell parents to do this experiment: Write down everything you do for your kids in a week. Then look at the list and then figure out what are the things they can do for themselves,. cross it off the list, then look at the things that they need some help with.

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