What's up, guys?

Welcome back to the five-minute fatherhood segment of the family team's podcast.

Jeff and I are here.

We want to talk to you guys about wrestling.

All right.

So I'm not a rassler myself, like professionally or anything.

But there's interesting research that suggests that it's really

important for fathers to engage in rough and tumble play with their children. And this came up in a

conversation that we're having online just today where a mother was talking about how her five-year-old

is really struggling with any kind of emotional control is reacting extremely negatively to

anything that they could appear like a loss or any negative vibe at all in a movie or in a

relationship or a situation or a comment even.

And so as she was articulating this, I asked a question.

I just said, does he wrestle with his dad?

You know, a lot of people are like, does he wrestle with his dad? You know?

A lot of people are like, why are you asking that? Well, because, and this is what has been uncovered, I think it's really important as, you know, as dads that we understand this, is that,

is that a lot of those, those basic relational dynamics, those ideas of how do I, how do I handle, like like resistance? You know, how do I,

how do I even think about my own body? How do I deal with the surges of emotions and,

and energies coming in and through me? So much of that is, is really created and discovered,

and we gain confidence in,

our ability to handle that, those things

through rough and tumble play with our dads or our moms.

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