He was just like, kind of like, that's what the table was gravitating towards and centering towards.

And so he just knew, like, if I want to speak up, I better have like something good to say, right?

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What's up, guys? Welcome to another five-minute fatherhood. So we're trying to build a

multi-generational family. One of the. So we're trying to build a multi-generational

family. One of the traps that we're going to talk about that you can avoid is, and I don't

if you ever thought about this, my friend Stephen Manuel over at Abraham's Wallet, made this statement

on their podcast. I love what they're doing over there to try to help families become more

multigenerational. I absolutely love, they're very much aligned with what we're talking about

here. But Stephen mentioned on that podcast that when families get together, who is the star

of the show? Who does everyone just sort of like orbit around? It's always the youngest kids, right? And one of the things he pointed out,

which I thought was just a brilliant observation, and I certainly have seen this as well,

is that in ancient cultures, it was the opposite. Imagine this. When the family got together,

everyone orbited around the oldest person of the family. Like, how did this happen? Like,

we went from the absolute oldest to the absolute youngest.

And obviously, like, I get it.

Like, we love babies.

We love kids.

But the fact is that we need our elders to be honored if we're going to gain the wisdom of the generations.

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