Some of the best relationships, some of the best mentoring that our kids have ever received

has come from our friends taking an interest in our kids because they are fun to interact with.

What's up, guys? Welcome back to Five Minute Fatherhood. So we want to talk a little bit about why it's

important to train your children at a young age, how to interact with adults. I think this is a really

specific area of training, but it has huge payoffs and huge consequences either way. And so when, and there's so many

opportunities to do this. And obviously when the kids are two, three, four, you're going to see

their personalities, their shyness, you know, some of their anxieties. And so it's really important to be

talking to your children and trying to help them through that process of feeling safe,

interacting with your friends, people that are close to your family. You can start by training

them how to interact with grandparents, but it makes a big difference when kids can look an adult

in the eye, you know, talk to them,

ask them a question. And think about what's at stake. I think that the way that this has been

framed is, okay, if you teach kids to, you know, be kind, respectful, and how to interact with

adults, that's respectful to the adult.

But if you just let kids follow their impulses and, you know, if they're grouchy, let them be mean or rude or whatever, that's better for the kids.

I kind of feel like that's the way some people think about this.

So let me talk about it from a little bit different angle.

And that is if you train your children to really

engage with adults, train them to be comfortable around adults, you know, that are close to your

family, in such a way that they become really attractive to the adult and they can form some kind of relationship.

I think that is absolutely in the best interest of the child primarily.

And we've really, we've seen this over the years with our family because what happens

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