Am I Raising My Son to be Soft?

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🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:26.5	Jason, welcome to the program.
0:29.4	Hey, Dr. Laura.
0:30.3	Thanks for taking my call.
0:32.5	You're welcome.
0:34.0	How can I help?
0:36.2	Sure.
0:37.1	So I've got a son who's eight years old and I'm just concerned that he is he is just a little
0:46.4	on the on the soft side and I think it's you know having some time to kind of think about it.
0:53.7	What do you mean on the soft side?
0:56.2	Exactly what do you mean?
0:58.1	I'm not sure.
0:58.9	Here's an example.
1:01.4	Sure.
1:02.8	So yesterday at Jiu-Jitsu, he was drilling and ended up just kind of on his back and bumped his head a little bit.
1:13.1	Nothing happened when I was watching the whole time, and he just kind of breaks into tears.
1:18.3	The instructor kind of took him aside, and she talked to him, and he calmed down, he was fine,
1:22.9	and got back in.
1:24.8	Second example was, again, at Jiu-Jitsu. A couple weeks ago, he was sparring, rolling,
1:32.3	and kind of bumped his mouth just with another little kid, his arm. A little bit of blood, fine,
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