Okay, Fafo parenting. Boy am I excited to jump into this with you. I have so many thoughts, so many

reactions. Let me say right from the start. I want to talk about what this acronym means,

and that involves choice words that you might not want your kids to hear. So if you just

picked up your kid from school, from a play date, maybe press pause and play a little bit later.

Okay, what is Fafo parentingo parenting well let me name it right

up front and there's something in the naming of it that kind of shares something about its essence

fuck around and find out fuck around and find out parenting now you might think i still don't really

know what it means i've never heard of this let me explain some kind of examples that bring it to life.

My kid wants to run around outside without shoes. All right. You're going to fuck around and find out

what it feels like to step on a nail. My kid forgot their homework at home. All right. Not my job

to put it in your backpack. Just you're going to figure out

what happens with your teacher when you forget your most important math homework of the year.

Fuck around and find out now. Here's what you might think. You might think Dr. Becky's going to say,

oh my goodness, that's so horrible.

What a horrible kind of new style of parenting.

Now, like most things in life, I tend to have kind of nuanced opinions.

There are things.

There are elements that I want to double click on because I think there's something really worthy and good about

elements. And then there's other elements that I think are not so great. Let's just say that up

front. There are other elements where I think we need to have a little shift of the dial.

So our kind of intentions and our goals with our

kids are kind of going to have the impact we want. I have so much to say, and I cannot wait to jump in

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