"Era Of Participation Trophies Is OVER!" - FAFO Parenting Takes OVER As Parents STOP Coddling Kids

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🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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The PBD Podcast reacts to a viral Wall Street Journal story: “Goodbye Gentle Parenting, Hello F Around and Find Out.” Scott Jennings and the panel debate parenting styles, Gen Z softness, and the cultural shift toward structure, discipline, and tough love in raising kids today.

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0:00.0	Goodbye, gentle parenting.
0:03.3	Hello, F around and find out.
0:05.2	This is a Wall Street Journal story.
0:07.0	This is not offend me.
0:07.8	I have four children.
0:08.7	So I want to hear your thoughts on this.
0:10.7	Rob, this is an actual story that just came out, folks.
0:13.7	It's called Goodbye Gentle Parenting.
0:16.7	Hello, F around and find out.
0:18.3	Parents are back.
0:19.5	They're making a comeback.
0:20.6	Parents are ditching the softer approach to child rearing that has dominated the culture and taking a harder line. Out feral, their, what is it? Farrell? What does that mean? Out feral, they're feral. Anyways, let me read this story to you. And then Scott, I'm coming to you first, okay? Because I want to know how you're parents your kids, soft. You're like, baby, it's okay. Everything's going to be okay. All right. Carla Dillon, a 35-year-old mother of two outside Richmond, Virginia, embraced a FAFO. Efferana find out parenting style, throwing her 13-year-old son against the wall and taking a baseball bat. I'm just kidding. I don't know. Damn, get it, girl. Go for it. No, no. Throwing her 13-year-old son and a pond after he sprayed her with a water gun stating some of the best lessons in life are the hard ones. She rejected gentle parenting saying, my kids will walk all over me if I do that.
1:14.0	And noted, maybe our kids wouldn't like that, but not to be rude.
1:18.0	My kid is tougher than yours.
1:22.7	Fafel prioritizes consequences over gentle method, which critics blame for Gen Zier's workplace and mental health struggles.
1:30.0	John Wellington, a 46-year-old stand-up comedian and Fafo, father of five from Somerville, South Carolina believes hardline parenting is necessary, stating the era of participation trophy is over, and it caused us to get a little bit soft.
1:43.7	He required his high school daughter to attend color guard practice despite her
1:47.5	dislikes saying, in the real world when you commit to a loan or car payment or house payment
1:51.8	or even a marriage, you have to finish that thing until it's over with.
1:55.6	Scott, thoughts on this?
1:57.6	First of all I have four, 16, 11, 9, and 7, all boys. If you do not take this attitude
2:03.7	in my household, they will immediately subdue you and be in charge of everything. They'll
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