Ep. 244 | Talk to Your Kids About Your Work
The Family Teams Podcast
Jeff Bethke
4.9 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Jeremy and Jeff discuss talking to your kids about your work.
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| 0:00.0 | But I would encourage you guys talk about your work, talk about your clients, talk about your |
| 0:03.4 | wins and losses. |
| 0:08.6 | What's up, guys? |
| 0:09.4 | Welcome to another five-minute fatherhood. |
| 0:10.9 | So one of the things I'd encourage you guys to do is talk to your kids about your work. |
| 0:16.2 | And a lot of us have abstract jobs. |
| 0:18.5 | And so we might resist educating our kids about how we make money or what happens |
| 0:24.1 | to us at work and i think this is really this can really subtly but profoundly over time separate us |
| 0:30.8 | from our family team and this really hit me once when i was back when cora was sort of brand new |
| 0:37.2 | this question |
| 0:37.9 | and answer site. |
| 0:39.2 | I remember somebody asked a specific question to billionaires. |
| 0:45.0 | I don't know why they asked, but they're like, they asked, hey, how do you guys see educating |
| 0:49.3 | your kids? |
| 0:50.3 | And a guy who was actually well known as a billionaire got on to Cora and actually wrote |
| 0:55.2 | something about how he's educating his kids and he said that the most important thing he |
| 1:00.2 | says he believes in educating your kids he used two words demystify work and that that really |
| 1:07.1 | hit me he said that a lot of kids that grow up, they're in school, and they don't |
| 1:12.9 | really understand how the whole moneymaking process works. And a lot of fathers don't talk to their |
| 1:19.8 | kids about work. And so they live in a very separate world. Their kids live in an educational world. |
| 1:24.4 | The dad lives in a vocational world. And these things don't ever sort of come together. And so |
| 1:30.8 | your kids as they're getting older, they don't understand how work works, right? They don't get it. |
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