All right. Hi, everybody. Stiffam Mollon, you from Free Domain. Hope you doing well.

So Jeremy Kaufman, I think I interviewed him once.

And Jeremy Kaufman wrote, this went pretty viral, wrote fairly recently,

when one of my children was two, he dropped a carrot on the floor and refused to pick it up.

He was told he would not be allowed to do anything fun or have any privileges until he picked up the carrot.

He refused for hours. He cried and screamed. He even napped, woke up and continued to refuse.

His commitment was impressive. We held fast until he picked up the carrot. He would receive nothing other than water

and basic food to live. After over four hours, he picked up the carrot and apologized. It's the

longest he's fought us to this day. Disobedience is a choice of parents you get the behavior

that you tolerate.

This was his.

He's a free state project guy, so he's a free state libertarian.

So I'm sure that we would have a lot in common, perhaps not so much,

with regards to this approach to parenting.

So, let's break it down, and we will also get into, hopefully if we have time, we will get

into the philosophy of why people confess to priests and so on, right? So let's, uh, let's get into it. So what does this mean

this idea that you have this sort of battle of wills with your two-year-old, right? That's a,

that's a pretty wild thing to me. So a two-year-old, now, it's funny because

two-year-old could be early two or late two, in other words, the two could be half of your

life or a third of your life. So we'll just say two, two and a half or something like that, right?

But it's a pretty wild thing because, for me, the important part is to be curious about what's going on.

Why would a two-year-old not want to pick up a piece of carrot, right?

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