How To Stop Being an Emotional ATM
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Last week, our expert Arthur Brooks gave us some surefire advice for resetting the parent-child relationship so your kids don't treat you like an emotional ATM. On this episode of How To!, he's going to teach our listener, Karen, how to balance the books, so to speak, by taking some withdrawals of her own. He has some surprising tips for how to restrain yourself from swooping in to save the day when it would be better to let them figure it out. Starting with a hilarious story of the time Arthur's adult son called him—pantsless—from Las Vegas.
If you liked this episode, check out part one: "How To Parent Less."
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Tinder. |
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| 0:29.0 | Well, let me ask you Arthur, |
| 0:31.0 | so do you remember ever causing your parents |
| 0:33.0 | any heartache around this time in your life? |
| 0:35.0 | Well, I got kicked out of college |
| 0:37.0 | when I was, yeah, for sure. |
| 0:39.0 | And I went on the road as a professional musician |
| 0:41.0 | through all my 20s, |
| 0:43.0 | which my parents called my gap decade. |
| 0:45.0 | So yeah. |
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