you have to treat each other increasingly like equals during the stage.

What's up guys? Welcome to Five Minute Fatherhood. So we are in part five of a series called

The Skill of Stage-Based Parenting. We talked about the Comforter stage, the Coach stage,

the counselor stage, the consultant stage, and now we're in one

that you will see entirely missing from most modern Western ideas of parenting, and that is

the co-founder stage. And this is really the longest stage of parenting for most people.

This can happen when your children are around the ages of 25 to 45 or 50. So you'll be in this stage for a long

time. But if you are, if you think about family with multi-generational, if you think about family

as a family line, then man, this is where the work is actually done. I think about all the other

stages is like building the house. this is like living in the house.

And if you read the Old Testament

and think about the multi-generational families

in the Old Testament,

most of the stories about those families

took place in this stage.

They considered all the other stages of parenting,

which is what we think of as basically all of the family is,

as really preparation for this moment

when you begin to build the family line and

begin to work together across generations. So the goal of this stage is to partner in a specific

family building projects. We call the style of this stage. We have a four-word sort of style

for each stage. This is low-tension, high trusttrust. This is when you are entrusting resources to your

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