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The Family Teams Podcast

Ep. 186 | How Simple Family Traditions Can Change the World

The Family Teams Podcast

Jeff Bethke

Religion & Spirituality, Kids & Family, Christianity, Parenting

4.9729 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Bethke and Jeremy Pryor talk about changing the world through tradition.

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0:00.0

Those guys, those brothers, those sons will never go to Dairy Queen ever again with just like a blank slate, never having any context or connection to this moment.

0:12.9

Hey guys, welcome to the Five Minute Fatherhood podcast. I'm your co-host, Jeff Bethke, along with my friend and mentor, Jeremy Pryor.

0:19.0

Join us Monday through Friday as we chat about

0:20.9

quick tips, skills, and ways to help equip you on your journey as a father to build your

0:25.6

multi-generational family team on mission. Stay tuned.

0:34.3

What's up guys, Jeff and Jeremy here, another episode of Five Minute Fatherhood.

0:38.0

We want to talk about a fun article. If you're in our group, we'll be posting usually things we think are interesting or articles we really like or that make us think. And there was this viral moment that actually on Twitter that BuzzFeed then turned into an article of a father and his three sons. And basically a tradition they had at Dairy Queen. That's what we wanted to talk about is how simple, small family traditions can actually change the world,

0:57.4

shock the world, and actually be a huge blessing.

1:00.1

And what this one was is very simple.

1:01.4

I believe they would go like on Thursdays or something every single week.

1:03.6

They had this tradition where the dad and the three sons would go to Dairy Queen every week

1:06.5

and get blizzards or whatever.

1:08.0

And then every year as one kid got out of high school and went

1:10.9

onto college, they would kind of drop out of the tradition because they're at college. And then it would be two kids, right? And then it was one kid. And then he kind of, he basically did a post on like that last week of that last kid kind of being sent off in the tradition. And what the, what the father said was awesome. He has this quote where he basically says, and then there was one.

1:34.1

And DQ, Dairy Queen was never really the thing itself, spending time driving to and from and talking, listening to their music and watching all of them interact as brothers. Now, that was the main thing.

1:39.3

Maybe I'll get by here every now and again. He means maybe I'll come back to Dairy Queen.

1:43.1

And certainly when they are all home, I will. But with maybe I'll come back to Dairy Queen. And certainly when they're

1:44.3

all home, I will. But with them not here, it's just ice cream. And then the son posted it, which is really awesome too. And he said, why did my dad have to go this hard on Insta? And why am I crying in Nashville, RN right now? He wrote. And it was retweeted over 165,000 times. And that's actually where I first saw it even before BuzzFeed.

2:01.3

But yeah, just,

2:02.4

I thought it was such a cool thing to show. over 165,000 times. And that's actually where I first saw it even before BuzzFeed. But yeah,

2:02.2

just I thought it was such a cool thing to show what I like to almost call micro moments and

2:07.2

micro traditions. But if you're repeating them, become really powerful. And I think the dad nailed

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