5353 WHY GRANDPARENTS SPOIL KIDS!
Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
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🗓️ 1 January 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Is there a general guide to perform a "reality check". For example, when dealing with issues with family of origin: how to check your grievances/issues levels are appropriate. That you're not "flying off the handle".
I've got 2 things I have been thinking about recently. One was how you did a bit of an analysis recently on certain magical / witchcraft /wizardry movies and what their meanings are. Have you already done analysis on other popular childhood movies? If you did I'd be very interested in listening. If not, would you be willing to? I know you do some recent movie reviews but I was just curious since a lot of kids spend time trying to be like their favorite characters so it might be useful philosophically.
My other question is, with Christmas just a few days away I've been seeing a whole lot of "elf on the shelf" stuff on social media. I've never been into it and it honestly creeps me out, but what is the philosophy around it? And is it actually creepy or am I misinterpreting it?
Thank you as always for providing so much insight. And merry Christmas!! 🎄🥂
Why do you think it is so common for grandparents to treat their grandkids so well when they didn’t do the same with respect to their own kids? I notice this a lot in public.
Would you mind sharing some insight into your decision-making process when you ultimately decided to become a stay-at-home father? What were some frequent challenges you faced in that role, any unexpected or unusual ones?
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| 0:22.0 | So, question, is there a general guide |
| 0:24.8 | to perform a reality check, for example, |
| 0:26.6 | when dealing with issues with family of origin? |
| 0:29.2 | How to check your grievances issues levels |
| 0:32.2 | are appropriate, that you're not flying off the handle. |
| 0:35.0 | It's a great question, just because you feel something, even if you feel something very strongly, |
| 0:40.0 | certainly does not mean that you're right or objective or valid and so on, right? |
| 0:44.0 | So it's great question. There are a couple of things that I do, which hopefully will be helpful to you too. |
| 0:49.0 | Which is, first thing I do is I do the old uno reversi, right? |
| 0:53.2 | So I do the reverse and I say, okay, |
| 0:55.6 | if the situation were reversed, would the other person be upset? |
| 1:01.9 | If the situation were reversed, would the other person be upset? If the situation were reversed, would the other person be upset? |
| 1:06.3 | So you know, one of the things that you could say is, let's say that you're in the middle of |
| 1:10.6 | telling a story that's kind of important to you and somebody at the dinner table keeps saying can we get the check can we go? |
| 1:18.0 | Well, it can be a little rude, right? |
| 1:20.0 | So if you talk to the other person you can say well if you were in the middle of telling an important story for you and I kept insisting |
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