How I Used CIA Training to Face My WORST Parenting Nightmare! | Day 6

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Andrew Bustamante

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🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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We all have to do hard things sometimes. Whether we choose them or they are required of us, difficult times are always ahead. As a parent and business owner, nothing has equipped me better for dealing with difficulty than one simple lesson I learned at CIA. This is that lesson…

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0:00.0	I am the proud father of a 12-year-old son and a 7-year-old daughter.
0:05.0	And as much as I love looking at life through their eyes and watching them grow and watching them change,
0:10.0	I also feel the pain that they feel when they go through those difficult transitions in childhood.
0:16.0	And one of those transitions just happened to my son.
0:29.6	Now for anybody out there who has had braces, who has had their teeth corrected, who has had any kind of significant mouth trauma, this conversation is for you.
0:35.6	Because my son is the most susceptible person in the family
0:40.8	to terrible things happening to his mouth.
0:43.8	When he was six years old, he was swinging on a fence.
0:47.3	Now, in my parenting defense, I told him that he shouldn't swing on the fence.
0:52.6	But like any parent of a six year old, they oftentimes don't listen to you. So he sw swing on the fence. But like any parent of a six-year-old, they oftentimes
0:55.9	don't listen to you. So he swung on that fence over and over again because he got excited,
1:01.0	because he loved the fence, because he loved to feel his feet swinging in the air, until one day
1:05.0	he slipped and he fell. And his teeth hit the metal fence. When that day happened, teeth shot out of his mouth,
1:14.4	other teeth cracked, his bottom jaw stopped working. It kind of hung there, limp, and it put me and
1:22.5	my wife into a tailspin of what do we do next, Because nothing that bad had ever happened to my face and
1:29.2	nothing that bad had ever happened to her face. But here we are holding this six-year-old who has
1:34.3	white flecks on the ground and broken teeth in his mouth and his jaw isn't moving. And he isn't
1:39.1	even crying because the shock of the pain and the trauma was so significant, he was just panicked about the fact
1:45.4	that he couldn't move his jaw. So as he's making these mouthing, moaning noises to try to communicate
1:51.0	and it's not working because his body isn't working either, we scooped him up and took him to an
1:56.3	emergency dentist as quickly as we could. Now, the good news was his jaw wasn't broken. It was just trauma
2:02.4	from the impact that basically made his jaw lock up, his muscles lock up. But he really did
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