that is the essence of what it means to be a really good coach or a really good father who's

training his kids you want to be all right welcome back to the family teams podcast today we're

going to be talking about training your kids at the different stages of childhood or development

obviously we're not looking for a one-size-fits-all

training system. What we want to do is kind of cater that to the maturity level of each kid,

right? So today we got Jeff Bethke, we got Jeremy Pryor, we got April prior, and we got me,

Blake Allsmith. And what's interesting is that I think we've got kids aged one to 25 represented, right?

We're various stages of parents here on this call.

So I think that we can all kind of come in from a lot of different angles.

Before we jump into the first stage, let's talk a little bit about what's at stake here.

I think that it's very tempting to come up with a simplistic view of training kids. So like here, here's our central

philosophy and just say, we only do one thing, no matter who the kid is or how old the kid is,

this is our one system of training, right? And what happens is if you get so rigid on that,

a couple of things can happen. One is that you don't have the ability to flex based on, you know, different kids at different stages in your home. And that can be really frustrating, right? Two is for a kid who's younger, who's being called up to maybe an older way of training a kid, it can get really overwhelming. Just recently, we were having a dinner table conversation. I've got seven kids, ages 14, down to one. And we were talking about the Myers-Briggs personality test with the older kids. And so I was kind of going through and talking, I'm like, hey, who's an extrovert? Who do you think is an introvert? And like, they were kind of typing themselves. It was a fun conversation. In my six-year-old, all of a sudden, like I moved on from extroversion or something

like that to intuitiveness. And my six-year-old all of a sudden gets overwhelmed and she starts to cry.

And she goes, I don't know what we're talking about. And I realize that like we were just

having a fun conversation with the older kids. And she's just like, I haven't answered the

question yet. And I feel like

this is way over my head. But I think it's a good example of how frustrating it can be if you realize like the if your level is off. If you're parenting at the tween stage to a three-year-old, it can be incredibly overwhelming and frustrating, right? That's a big thing to look out for. So that's people we want to talk about today is we we want to talk about littles, we're going to talk about tweens, and then we want to talk about

tweens and even older kids on how we think about training. So why don't we kick it off, April, you want to jump on with littles. You've trained up five littles of your own. And now you're, you've had such a success.

You're back to round two.

You're training up grand littles, right?

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