DOD78: Gentle Parenting Versus... Not That

Dear Old Dads

Thomas Smith

Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.8 • 550 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Let's talk authoritarian parents. The Toms probably had them. Eli definitely didn't. Is it bad? What's gentle parenting and why does it mean Eli has lost several eyes and a couple noses to Max attacks? Is he going to stick with it or explode under the emotional pressure?

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0:00.0	I'm the cool dad. That's, that's my thing.
0:09.7	I know 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.
0:28.2	Welcome to dear old dads. The podcast is just waiting for dad to get home. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. Hey-yo.
0:38.6	We had such vastly, I refused to say hello to that. We had such vastly different
0:42.9	childhoods that that's from a horror movie. That state. Just for me, I can't identify
0:48.9	with it either. It was from a horror movie for us too. It's not, oh yeah, I see this. It's not like
0:54.1	it was fun for us.
0:55.2	We fucking hated it.
0:56.0	Are you kidding?
0:56.7	The worst.
0:57.8	We just lived in a horror movie, Eli.
1:01.9	Is it too late to rename the podcast, two of us lived in a horror movie?
1:07.6	Because honestly, I think that's going to be a lot clearer than dear old dad.
1:10.6	I think we say fuck way more than a podcast with dads and the title should.
1:15.3	But I think we lived in a horror movie.
1:17.5	We'll really let everybody know where we're at.
1:20.9	But keep the same cover art.
1:23.7	Absolutely.
1:24.2	Yeah.
1:24.8	I thought to kind of intro this topic a little bit, it would be good to start off with, I'm sure you guys are familiar with like the four basic styles of parenting. The four main parenting styles being authoritarian.
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