DOD234: Kids Want Attention and That Is Okay
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
First, the dudes compare music taste. Then, a listener email asks the dads for advice about handling a recent situation they experienced where their kid's school carried out its full crisis procedure after the child said something minor in class, and the consequences on their own life (their workday, the weekend, etc.) as a result. How should a parent react in that circumstance, what is appropriate to discuss with your child to avoid these situations in the future, and at what age might that advice change?
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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. |
| 0:28.3 | Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the podcast that's dialed two out of three emergency numbers. |
| 0:34.2 | I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. Hello. That almost was like a big bopper. Hello, baby. Does anyone know that? Big bopper music? No. No time traveler from the future. Right? Taking over the body. I know. I keep forgetting that my, no, because my dad was so fucking old. |
| 0:55.2 | And I like oldies better than fucking classic rock 80s bullshit. So like all my references are from the 18. Yeah. My sister likes oldies. It's horrifying. Wait, what's an oldie now? Like my dad. No, not right now. Yeah. But what do we consider an oldie? |
| 1:09.9 | Like, what is the oldies? |
| 1:11.0 | Well, okay, again, right now, oldies is like the 90s or something. |
| 1:14.7 | Right. |
| 1:14.7 | But she... dad used to first in an oldie. What do we consider an only? Like, what is the oldies? Well, |
| 1:11.2 | okay, again, right now oldies is like the 90s or something. Right. But she likes like Chuck Barry. Okay. That's a little too old because those are kind of boring. But like, just basically the late 50s, I mean, yeah, that's part of it. The late 50s, 60s through to like. She doesn't make it to the 60s. |
| 1:27.1 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:27.8 | That's where you're going wrong. |
| 1:29.6 | I grew up in the make it to the 60s at all. Oh, yeah. |
| 1:27.8 | That's usually... |
| 1:28.4 | There's where you're going wrong. |
| 1:29.6 | Yeah, I grew up in the car listening to the oldies. In the 80s, my dad, born in 47, was listening to the oldies in the car every time we went somewhere, like on a road trip. And I cannot stand any of those songs. like any of those songs come on. |
| 1:43.2 | I'm like, |
| 1:43.4 | those are all terrible. |
| 1:44.6 | God, you're so wrong. |
| 1:45.3 | Literally terrible songs. |
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