How Our Past Shapes Today – Episode #753
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Cathy and Todd discuss how our upbringing shapes our current approach to parenting, share why some traditional parenting tricks fall short, and attempt to redefine romance—it’s not just about grand gestures, but the heartfelt intentions behind them.
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| 0:00.0 | do do do do do do do do here we go my name's todd this is gavie welcome back to another episode of |
| 0:08.5 | zen parenting radio this is podcast number 753 all odd numbers sweetie which is really |
| 0:16.7 | fascinating and prime numbers as a matter of fact yeah Yeah, I'm looking at you on my Zoom, |
| 0:22.9 | and you've got... All I want to do is a Zoom, Zoom, Zoom on a boom, boom. You have a very |
| 0:28.1 | purple headband on. I do. And you look like you got ready. I had some buddies over on Friday |
| 0:33.2 | night because Skyler was somewhere and you were somewhere. So we played board games and it had some fun. |
| 0:40.0 | And there was this game where we had to write stuff down. |
| 0:42.8 | So I got my pens. |
| 0:45.5 | And they're all purple. |
| 0:46.7 | They're all purple. |
| 0:47.4 | And one of the guys is like, man, you must really like purple. |
| 0:50.4 | I got my purple shirt on. |
| 0:51.8 | I had my purple glasses on. |
| 0:53.0 | I had seven purple pens. We need to talk about those, too, because those purple pens, too much, they leak. |
| 0:58.5 | No, they don't. |
| 0:58.8 | No, they don't. Todd, literally two. Wrong and wrong. |
| 1:01.9 | Two days ago, I pulled one of those purple pens out of my drawer, and I was writing something. I looked down at my hand, and my entire hand had ink on. |
| 1:08.7 | You must be using them wrong, sweetie. Well, they're not as good as you think they are. |
| 1:13.0 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:13.9 | Gosh. |
| 1:14.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.0 | First of all, I'm going to do this. |
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