You're able to set a lot of sort of cultural things where your parents just feel like, whoa, we're being swept up into this amazing thing that our son has created.

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What's up, guys? Welcome to another five-minute fatherhood. So there has been a great conversation

that we've been having in our Facebook group with the guys about what do you do when your

parents just are opening old wounds. I mean, this is really, really hard to deal with. My heart goes out

to the different guys who are expressing this happening to them. They want to integrate their

parents into their, into their life. They want them to be around their kids. They want their,

they want grandparents' engagement to be really good. But man, there's tension between them,

maybe in their wife. There's tension between them and themselves. Their parents just haven't

learned old lessons. And so a lot of times this can

get really painful because now you're experiencing sort of freedom from some of that baggage. And then

your parents, you know, pick open that sort of fresh wound. And so we're having this conversation

like, how do we handle that? Did we just wall our parents off from our kids or create really

strict boundaries or how do we

handle that? And there's a couple of, there's every single situation is different. So we don't know

your situation. So just we're going to give you some tips. These are not, this is not prescription.

But a few tips, you guys, tip number one that I think is really big is you need when this is happening,

you need to lower your expectation for your parents.

You need to understand maybe your parents have grown in certain areas and not in others.

And so a lot of times if you have high expectations and you're constantly shocked,

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