DOD153: Put That Back, We Have Perfectly Good Cheap Garbage At Home
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Eli witnessed an interaction in Target that raised the questions: How do you tell your kids when you can't afford something? Or, how do you tell them when you absolutely could afford something, but they really don't need it and have too much already?
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| 0:00.0 | I'm the cool dad. That's, that's my thing. |
| 0:09.7 | I know now what I can offer you that no one else can. Complete and undependent. |
| 0:16.7 | I'm a man. I'm sensitive. I need to feel loved. I need to be desired. |
| 0:23.1 | Yelling is the only part of being a father that I enjoy. |
| 0:28.8 | Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the podcast that gets what it gets, but still throws a fit. |
| 0:34.1 | I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, |
| 0:39.0 | hello. How's it going? Boy, that's just my kids. There's no making them happy. They're just |
| 0:44.9 | every, you just wait on them hand and foot, give them whatever they want, every, every desire. And then |
| 0:50.1 | they're like, what have you done for me lately, as in the last half a second? |
| 0:57.9 | Hey, hey, I can tell you, listen, look, I want to give you some bright light. |
| 1:00.1 | There's no bright light that never changes. |
| 1:06.6 | We are, we're 18 years down the road with some of them. |
| 1:10.9 | And it's just like, oh, God, it's actually, no, it's not. |
| 1:16.2 | Like, it's not, it's not, it's not a tantrum anymore, but it's sort of like an expectation. |
| 1:20.5 | I want to step to the front of the camera and been like, has this ever happened to you? |
| 1:22.5 | Introducing autism. |
| 2:01.9 | You buy your kid one toy in 1992, and he plays with that shit in in perfect happy silence forever. You know what they say if you can hit one out of three in baseball, then like you can be a Hall of Famer. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, not so good for that application. You know, I'm going to tell you a story related to that. Just real quick, we've talked about favoritism before, not the topic of today's show, but we've talked about that and managing that. And I had to check, one of those check in with yourself moments where, Max is my favorite. Yeah, that's easy for Eli. Yesterday, one of my kids had a play date. And so I wake up and it was just about time for them to go to the play date. And Lydia was like, yep. Arlo's got a play date. |
| 2:03.4 | And I was like, oh, Arlo's got a play date, huh? |
| 2:06.6 | So it's just us and the other two kids, huh? |
| 2:11.4 | So the one that's the easiest one that is incredibly easy to parent is gone. |
| 2:16.4 | And the two nightmares are here. That's great. And this is just |
| 2:21.7 | me thinking to myself and then being like, that's not good. I got to change this. I'm going |
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