DOD17: Should We Make Our Kids Apologize?
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Being able to apologize and understand when you are wrong is a critical component of being a good person. But when/how/why/where/what is a good apology? What's a bad one? Should we MAKE our kids apologize? So much good stuff here plus an EXTRA long bonus conversation only for patrons at the end!
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| 0:00.0 | I'm the cool dad. That's, that's my thing. |
| 0:09.0 | I know now what I can offer you that no one else can. |
| 0:12.0 | Complete and undependent. |
| 0:15.0 | 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. |
| 0:28.6 | Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the podcast that doesn't know how to say it, sorry. I'm Tom Curry. |
| 0:35.2 | And I'm joined as always by my friends Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. |
| 0:39.9 | Hello. |
| 0:40.7 | Hello. |
| 0:41.3 | That doesn't sound right. |
| 0:42.5 | What was that about? |
| 0:45.7 | Hey, sometimes the dad intros are just about Tom's dad. |
| 0:51.6 | The podcast that throws away books when it's done. |
| 0:54.8 | Okay. |
| 0:55.4 | All right. |
| 0:55.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.3 | Are we taking bets on the number of times Thomas's dad has said, I'm sorry, because |
| 1:01.3 | That's fair. |
| 1:02.2 | It's literally zero. |
| 1:03.5 | No, that's not true. |
| 1:05.0 | He will have apologized about minor things day to day. Oops, I dropped something on, you know, minor that. |
| 1:14.2 | I drop something on you. Yeah. Yeah. Oops. I left you in the cave for two hours. |
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