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

Fun topic for today. And that is this thought or this idea that your influence over your

grandkids may be greater than your own kids. So Jeremy, I'm excited to hear what you think.

But initially when I read that out loud, what I think of is this idea, yeah, there's something

about grandchildren that like I was saying earlier, they kind of give their ears more to their grandparents than the kids do to the parents, meaning there's something about everything a grandparent says to a grandchild, the kid usually sees it as gold, right? When it's like you'll never usually have that kind of tone or attitude from your kids. And not, you know, even if they love you and listen and all that. So I think that's an interesting thing too. There's something about the dynamic that I wonder if God has ordained that that you have kind of a voice of wisdom and influence in your children or mean your grandkids that is really unique. But I don't know. How would you process this or frame this? Yeah, I really think that it's possible

that as your fatherhood gets more and more advanced, as you get in, you know, you didn't know what

you were doing with your little kids in your 20s or early 30s, right? And so what happens oftentimes

is your skill is going up, your wisdom is growing. And so I think it is, it does make a lot of sense that potentially your

voice for your multi-generational family could could actually increase. And a lot of people don't

think about this. There was actually some research done. And there's, there's actually a,

quote that's, I find really fascinating, where all this research of how grandparents were having a

much stronger impact on their grandchildren in some cultures than their kids. It was called

Hanson's Law, which says, what the son wishes to forget, the grandson wishes to remember.

And this has happened where you've seen a lot of revival amongst Jewish communities

where there's a sudden explosion of Jewish identity, where there were, in an older generation

that was really into the practices of Judaism, their kids really rebelled against it and sort of

abandoned those practices. And then suddenly

in the third generation, a huge percentage comes back to those practices. And so this tends to

happen. And it's really interesting. And I think that we need to think about this even more than

previous generations, because we're going to live longer than our grandparents did, most likely. They say right now,

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