me and Alyssa joke that the exiting ritual of this stage is when the baby basically starts to

drop the sippy cup off of the table on purpose and look at you. Totally.

What's up guys? Welcome to Five Minute Fatherhood. So we're going to do something we haven't

done before, which is to do an actual series. So we're gonna do six episodes

where Jeff and I are gonna walk through

six different stages of parenting.

And in our homeroom and our online community right now,

we do different themes every month.

And this month's theme is called

the skill of stage-based parenting.

And this has really been a huge deal for our parenting for our family over the years

because oftentimes you get a whole of a book or some overarching parenting philosophy

and it sort of claims to be like the one way to think about parenting that will revolutionize

your family.

And what we've discovered is that, well, it usually does revolutionize your family. And what we've discovered

is that, well, it usually does revolutionize your family in a good way, but for a particular

stage. And so I've learned to like slot a lot of these, what are often pitched to sort of total

parenting philosophies into particular stages. But parenting is really complicated. I mean, it changes

depending on what's going on. And so what we are encouraging folks to do in Home Room is to adapt

your parenting style, at least try, because I know that that's easier said than done a lot of

times, to the season that your family's in and to the season your kids are in. So we're going to

talk about all six of these stages.

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