A Great Example of Raising a Competent Child

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:29.4	I saw this brief.
0:32.6	Instagram.
0:34.4	My friends loved to send me these things.
0:37.1	And I think it was in england the guy had such a
0:40.7	brutish accent and he was it was chilly and he had a little boy his son who was sort of a
0:50.1	let's see about three four somewhere in there all bundled up you know so they can't even walk
0:59.7	right so many layers of clothes and they're at some kind of park let's see I love intermittent
1:10.2	at some kind of park. And the little boy is on his hands and knees on a wood plank that's about 18 inches wide. And it looked to be about five feet long long and it was elevated from the ground with these
1:31.5	huge spirally springs it's a toy for kids to walk on that wiggles okay so he's out with his father
1:43.9	not the mother because i'm going to make a point with that.
1:46.5	Not that the mother wasn't there per se, but how the mother might have been handling it differently, typically.
1:51.8	So the little boy is, no, no, no.
1:56.1	And dad just caves, be brave, stand up, you can do it, be brave, stand up, you can do it, be brave, stand up, you can do it, be brave,
2:03.1	stand up, no, no, no. And so he starts to try to get up, because dad just keeps repeating
2:11.4	himself, be brave, stand up. But it's really, I know, be brave, stand up. it's really i know be brave stand up so eventually this little boy stands up and it's
2:24.0	wiggling at this point dad puts his foot on the other end to keep it from wiggling too much okay
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