Welcome to the Raising Boys and Girls Podcast. I'm Sissy Gough. I'm David Thomas and I'm

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So we talked in our intro

So we talked in our intro about Eugene Peterson saying the most important part of being a parent

is being a person and so that really carries over into each episode. So David, I want you to say, if we're talking in this episode about being an

intentional parent, it also means being an intentional person. So what would you say

besides tacos helps you be more intentional as a person?

I can't use tacos.

No, I'm sorry, not this time.

You should, well, that's the biggest thing you can.

Mm.

I have been requiring myself to for at least 30 minutes a

day watch or listen to something that makes me laugh because I think COVID has been this really heavy time that like all of 2020 was this really heavy year and I could feel the heaviness of that bearing down on me in the way that I think a lot of people did.

And years ago, you're going to remember this, We had a dear friend of ours who has a fascinating

background in neuropsychology come and talk with our staff and she was talking about

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