Late Bloomers: Giving Your Kids Space to Grow with Richard Karlgaard

The Dad Edge Podcast

Larry Hagner

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🗓️ 8 July 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Our society is obsessed with early achievement. We want our kids to become incredible athletes, advanced students, and high-earners. We have a tendency to compare them with their peers and if they aren’t at the same level, we worry that they won’t succeed.

Our guest is Richard Karlgaard. He’s a journalist, award-winning entrepreneur, and speaker. He is the author of bestselling book, Late Bloomers: The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement. He talks about how today’s kids are under huge pressure to perform and feel like failures if they don’t meet society’s expectations. This coincides with a 70% rise in depression and anxiety in teenagers in the past 25 years.

It’s natural for every parent to wish the best for their child’s future, but Richard Karlgaard explains how kids develop in different ways at different ages. He teaches us how to meet our kids where they are and give them space to grow. He also tells us how allowing them to find their way later in life can be an advantage to long-term achievement and happiness.

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0:00.0	We are men. We are warriors. We are dads with a purpose. Dads with an edge. We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others.
0:15.0	We have one shot in life to be a dad.
0:20.6	Why not make it epic? Hey what's up guys
0:28.0	Hey what's up guys.
0:29.0	Welcome to the Dad Edge podcast.
0:31.0	I'm Larry Hagner.
0:32.0	I'm your host and founder. Hey, thanks for spending the next 45 minutes, give or take with me and my
0:38.1	guest today. Your time is valuable and there is just a fire hose of information that is constantly pinging you and
0:48.1	needing your attention so I'm glad you are spending the next 45 minutes with us.
0:53.2	So I mean this podcast, it is meant to give you real insight,
0:56.9	real tools so we can become the best husbands, fathers,
1:00.0	leaders, and providers we possibly can.
1:03.2	This show I think you guys will get quite a bit out of it because I mean I think we can all agree
1:07.4	that we've become a society that is obsessed with early achievement.
1:13.4	We want our kids to become incredible athletes,
1:16.4	students, test takers, all these things.
1:20.8	However, what we're seeing is a skyrocketing jump in anxiety and depression among teens.
1:29.0	In fact, depression and anxiety among teens has risen, sit back, wait for it, 70% in the past 25 years.
1:40.2	You can believe that.
1:41.8	Today my guest Richard Carlsgard. He's a journalist, he's a
1:45.9	best-selling author, he's an award-winning entrepreneur and speaker, and he was
1:50.0	named publisher of the year by Forbes magazine in 1998. He's written three books.
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