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The Family Teams Podcast

Ep. 339 | Connecting After Kids are Down

The Family Teams Podcast

Jeff Bethke

Religion & Spirituality, Kids & Family, Christianity, Parenting

4.9729 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy and Jeff discuss connecting after the kids go to bed.

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0:00.0

I think it's really important, though, to differentiate that from, yeah, I have a little energy

0:05.2

to connect, but I just want to do what's easy.

0:11.2

What's up, guys?

0:12.0

Welcome back to Five Into Fatherhood.

0:13.4

So in our online homeroom community, this is where we throw out a challenge every single

0:19.8

month to the 3,000 or so people in homeroom to help build their family teams.

0:26.6

Rebecca, we have lots of questions people ask.

0:28.8

It's basically a giant think tank for family teams.

0:32.4

And so it's so awesome to hear these questions.

0:33.9

But just today, we got this question from Rebecca.

0:36.7

She says, my husband is not a

0:37.9

reader at all. He likes to watch TV after the kids go to bed. Don't get me wrong. Sean and Gus are

0:42.4

hilarious, but not every night. I find sitcoms boring in a waste of my reading time. When I don't watch

0:50.1

TV with him, I feel disconnected from him. We've tried schedules, watching TV three nights a week

0:55.5

and reading the other nights. We've tried me reading a book aloud. So it gives us something to

0:59.7

discuss and talk about. Didn't work. I'm just kind of at a loss as to what to do now. And so I can't

1:08.2

I'm imagining some large percentage of guys listening to this, and I'm definitely in

1:13.0

the camp, you're, you're home, you're tired, you know, it's eight or nine o'clock at night,

1:18.5

and there is so much good stuff to watch on Netflix or wherever, and you find yourself

1:25.1

just night after night after night zoning out. And in this case,

1:28.5

you know, this, this, um, this dad has an amazing wife who wants to like connect with him.

1:35.1

Yeah. And doesn't feel like binge watching is, is the way to do it. So, uh, yeah,

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