Buck up Or Console? Finding The Middle Ground- Podcast #366
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2017
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Cathy and Todd discuss the difference between telling your kid to buck up and offering them consolation, and why it’s not one or the other, it’s both. They also explain why it’s importance to answer your kids questions and not assume that they already know what to do. They talk about the new State Farm commercial titled Following and Julia, the new character on Sesame Street. They discuss Beauty and the Beast, Pretty in Pink, chess, and why Todd wants to play catch his daughters.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Crashin' |
| 0:02.0 | Crashin' hit a wall right now now i need a miracle |
| 0:22.6 | all right now i need a miracle |
| 0:26.6 | stranding reaching out |
| 0:33.6 | all right here we go my name's Todd |
| 0:35.6 | Mrs. Kathy |
| 0:36.6 | Welcome back to Zen Parenting Radio. I'm playing a YouTube clip. It's a State Farm commercial. |
| 0:41.3 | Why am I doing that, my darling? |
| 0:42.7 | Well, because we have been watching March Madness. I'm sure many of you have been correct. |
| 0:48.6 | I am not winning the bracket. |
| 0:50.7 | Who's winning, Cameron? |
| 0:51.7 | Cameron. |
| 0:52.2 | We're doing a family bracket, and I'm doing the non-Zen-like thing, and I basically forced my kids |
| 0:58.2 | to fill out a bracket. |
| 0:59.1 | You said, sit down and fill this out. |
| 1:00.7 | We're doing it. |
| 1:01.4 | Anyway, we were watching yesterday in this commercial by State Farm using that chain |
| 1:05.5 | smokers song. |
| 1:06.9 | It's a slowed down version of Don't Let Me Down. |
| 1:11.3 | It's really powerful commercial, and it's like took a few times of me watching it to realize what was happening. |
| 1:17.7 | And so those of you who are watching March Madness, you may recognize that song. |
| 1:22.2 | For those of you who have not seen the commercial, all you have to do is Google State Farm Following. So the commercial |
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