5381 "My Child Keeps Going to the Dark Side!" Call In
Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
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🗓️ 25 January 2024
⏱️ 171 minutes
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"So, my daughter is eight years old. She's a wonderful girl, super fun and creative and goofy... but she has what I'll call 'dark mode,' where it's a lot of negative behaviors, panic attacks, screaming, expressing feelings of worthlessness. It's just... it's terrible. It's terrible for her. It's terrible to experience.
"I'm worried about what you say sometimes, that adage about, by seven years old, someone's personality is sort of set for life.
"So, what I'm hoping to get out of the conversation is, what what did I do to create this dark mode? What I'm doing to try and repair it, if that's enough? I'd like to get your perspective on everything that I've done as a parent and how I can be better at it.
"Another part that of this that really terrifies me is that my my own sister, at seven years old, there's this family story about how she ran away for the afternoon. When my parents found her, she was screaming and raging at them, telling my parents to kill her! My parents kind of tell it as just, 'Well, we don't know what what happened!' and they never did anything for her. Her life has turned out by her own estimation, she's just a wreck and we have like zero relationship now. To see that same thing echoing in my own daughter is just: 'Ahh! I need to do something!'"
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello. |
| 0:03.0 | Sorry about that message in all caps. |
| 0:05.0 | I didn't mean to be yelling. |
| 0:06.0 | I just leave them on sometimes because that's how I name files. |
| 0:08.0 | So, sorry about that. |
| 0:09.0 | I'll call it a sec. |
| 0:11.0 | So my apologies. |
| 0:16.0 | Sorry, I'm getting a call on my phone from you as well. I'm afraid that technology is frightening me right now. |
| 0:20.0 | If I hang up on my phone, will it drop the call? |
| 0:23.0 | I, well we could try, I could just call again. |
| 0:26.0 | Okay. |
| 0:28.0 | You still there? |
| 0:29.0 | I am. |
| 0:30.0 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:31.0 | Very good. |
| 0:32.0 | Thank you so much for taking the time to talk to me. |
| 0:35.0 | Oh, no, my pleasure. I'm sorry about this last week, but I'm all yours, I'm all yours, how can I help? |
| 0:40.0 | Well, you've spoken with me before and it helped so much and I just was itching to talk with you one more time about my own children because before we spoke about my family of origin and this is what really matters so my daughter has been |
| 1:00.5 | she's about eight years old and she's like a wonderful girl, super fun and creative and goofy, but she has what I'll call |
| 1:10.2 | dark mode where she, it's a lot of negative behaviors, panic attacks, |
| 1:18.2 | screaming, expressing feelings of worthlessness and I can go into specifics later but it's just |
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