do do do to do to do here we go my name's Todd this is Kathy welcome back to another episode of Zen

Parenting Radio this is podcast number 785 why listen to Zen Parenting Radio because you'll feel

outstanding and always remember our motto which is that the best predictor of a child's well-being

is a parent's self-understanding.

On today's show, I am going to share an experience I had yesterday at the airport with my

daughter, which I have not yet shared with you, I don't think.

Okay.

Maybe I did.

I don't know.

And we're also going to talk about your Zen Parenting Moment, which is about the

comparison culture.

We live in it.

I would say we swim in it.

Like it's kind of like this is water.

Like it's so much that we don't even notice it's there.

Yeah.

It's a mixture of there's, it's on purpose, meaning that's the way we sell things, like marketing, and that's the way

we sell social class, and that's the way we sell products and advertising is by comparing.

And it's also our neurobiology is kind of set up to compare because we want to survive.

And we also want to um you know achieve things and

and make strides in life so we compare to other people well and i guess said in another way

or maybe the same way um it's ego it's your ego like our soul you know, the one that was here before our ego showed up.

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