DOD9: What's the Line Between Advocating for Your Kid and Being an Asshole?
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This episode is a delightful romp! A series of vignettes about our dadding experience, including: there's always that one asshole kid; Eli doing magic tricks for other parents; how much 'being an asshole' for your kid is appropriate; what do you do with a kid who won't wear clothes; and whoops! atheism.
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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. |
| 0:27.8 | Welcome to dear old dads, the podcast that isn't mad. It's just disappointed. I'm joined by Thomas |
| 0:34.8 | Smith and Eli Bosnick, and I'm Tom Curry. Hello, gentlemen. Hello. How's it going? |
| 0:39.9 | Going all right. So this week we wanted to talk, Eli, you wanted to talk about this topic. He wanted to talk about and I think there was a jingle for it. If you have a mistake. Baby friends. I still regret letting you do thatly. I take it Anna didn't write that jingle. |
| 0:55.0 | No. No. You could tell by the tone in my voice. That one was a solo. That was an Eli Bosnick |
| 1:00.9 | joint. So I want to talk about baby friends. One, because I have an absolutely mortifying story |
| 1:07.2 | that I was so excited to share with you guys. And two, just because I want to know how to |
| 1:13.5 | handle this, because I will get to it in a second. But basically, baby friends, your baby hangs out |
| 1:20.6 | with other babies. They don't like the baby. They don't hate the baby. They feel nothing towards |
| 1:25.4 | the other baby. But they're basically iguanas in a cage at that point. Yeah. They're just, they don't care. Until a certain age, it's like, oh, my baby has existed around other babies, I guess they're friends. Right. Please be my friends. And you're just like, fucking get the biting one out of here. Yeah, there's always a biter. Yeah. There's always a biting baby. Yeah. And you get to talk about, Yeah, there's always a biting baby |
| 1:44.8 | Yeah |
| 1:45.7 | And you get to talk about that look |
| 1:47.6 | There's nothing I love |
| 1:48.9 | There's a baby you like |
| 1:49.8 | I don't know if you guys have the experience |
| 1:51.1 | There's a baby you like |
| 1:52.3 | And there's a baby you fucking hate |
| 1:53.8 | And you talk |
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