Howdy folks welcome back to the podcast today we're going to be talking about when we should include our kids and when they should be excluded from adult conversations adult activities or just general social gatherings this is a topic that we've discussed on numerous occasions in our home. Our families had a way of handling different situations which

we're going to discuss and we've gotten this question from a number of you listeners.

And so we thought it'd be something fun to discuss.

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Well, Katie, it's so funny when we started talking about this subject,

you and I both, like we both learn something new about each other that we related on and how like we have some like passionate thoughts about different aspects of this topic when children should be included and when they should not be included.

And I actually do think a lot of people are emotional on the subject based off of their

their childhood experience a lot of times. It's inevitable that we parent, oftentimes

out of reaction to how we were raised.

Like basically, our childhood is still

going to be the most influential thing in how we parent,

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