Saying “Yes” to your Kids’ Requests

The Dad Edge Podcast

Larry Hagner

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🗓️ 11 July 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

This show was recorded right after The Dad Edge Live Summit and we’re going to share a quick thought from the event that is so important to our kids.

We might not even notice it, but much of the time, when our kid asks us to do something with them, our default answer is “no.” We’re busy. Maybe later. After we get one more thing checked off our endless to-do list.

What we don’t think about is how badly our kids just want to hang out and spend time with us.

Today we talk about changing our default setting. We always have things going on, but we need to stop and think about what matters most. What would happen if next time your kid asks you to play with them or take them out, that your default answer is “yes?”

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0:00.0	We are men. We are warriors. We are dads. Dads with a purpose. Dads with an edge.
0:10.0	We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others.
0:14.0	We have one shot in life to be a dad.
0:20.0	Why not make it epic? It's time!
0:40.4	What's going on guys? Welcome to Thursday throwdown. I'm actually recording this particular show.
0:47.0	Literally the the day after we came out of the Dad Edge Summit back in June, June 6, 7th, and 8th, and I know this podcast is being released like a month from now,
0:52.0	but I had some incredible insights there
0:54.9	from the 100 men who showed up showed out it was awesome we got to have so many different men share their story as well as their insights as well as their lessons and we did one session where a lot of men got to share just some of the insights and lessons that they learned in the Daddage Alliance over the past year and some of a man were so simple, so simple and so easy, and that's part of what I'm going to be sharing with you guys today and the reason I started out with that crazy obnoxious it's time is because
1:30.9	one of the guys there at the summit actually told me he's like man every time I see Thursday throw down I'm thinking like fighting I'm thinking like UFC in the cage Thursday throwdown so that's why but anyway I want to share something with you that came out of the
1:45.2	summit so easy and yet so many yours truly as well is guilty of it and that is always saying no. So saying no to kids
1:56.3	requests and I'm not talking about like hey dad give me a hundred dollars you
2:01.8	know that might be a no. Or, hey, Dad, I want to go to Disney World tomorrow. Yeah, that
2:06.9	would probably be a no. But sometimes some of the requests are like they just want to hang
2:10.8	out with us. They just want to spend time with us. Like, hey dad, will you come out and play
2:15.0	basketball with me? Hey dad, would you play Barbie dials with me if you've got daughters?
2:19.8	I can't relate. Obviously, got four boys but or hey dad I want to color with you or hey
2:27.8	dad I want to go have coffee with you there are at any given time about 10 different things that we could probably do or that we need feel that we need to do or maybe out of guilt we should be doing or whatever else maybe it's work maybe
2:45.8	it's the dishes maybe it's helping out the wife I don't know but what if our
2:50.8	default instead of to say no I don't have time or no, maybe later, what if our default was to say yes?
3:00.0	And I know that sounds so incredibly simple, but what if we could simply take a moment when our kids request something of our time to just say yes, whether that be like, hey dad can we go out to breakfast tomorrow.
3:15.0	And instead of saying no, you know, right off the bat, we could look at our calendars,
3:20.0	maybe shift some things around and be like, you know what, yes we can.
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