The Dad Was Right There... But Didn't See: Lessons from Netflix's 'Adolescence' (Part 3)
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Ever look at your kids and see echoes of your own struggles?
Today, Larry Hagner dives into a powerful and often uncomfortable truth: the unhealed wounds we carry as fathers can cast unseen shadows on our children.
Inspired by the Netflix series "Adolescence," this episode unpacks the subtle yet significant ways our unresolved childhood pain impacts our ability to connect with and truly support our kids.
Larry uses the story of Eddie and Jamie from "Adolescence" to illustrate how even well-intentioned dads can unintentionally pass down emotional scars if they haven't actively confronted and healed their own pasts.
It's not about blame; it's about awareness and the courage to break free from generational cycles.
In this raw and honest episode, you'll learn:
- The subtle ways your own unhealed childhood experiences can manifest in your parenting.
- How unresolved pain can create emotional distance and hinder genuine connection with your children.
- Why repeating the mistakes of our fathers is often an unconscious act rooted in our own unresolved issues.
- Practical steps you can take to begin confronting and healing your past wounds.
- The profound impact of emotional presence and intentionality in breaking generational cycles.
This episode is a powerful call to action for fathers to step up—not just as providers, but as emotionally aware men who are committed to healing themselves for the sake of their families. It's a guidepost on the journey to living and fathering more intentionally, creating a new legacy for the next generation.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dad Edge podcast. The Dad Edge movement creates leaders of men, leaders of families, and leaders of communities. We will not only impact this generation of fathers, but the next generation as well. The kids we are raising will have better chances and odds stacked in their favor because of the amazing example |
| 0:21.2 | that their fathers emulated for them. We are here to change the world. We are here to change |
| 0:27.6 | relationships. We are here to positively disrupt this generation of fathers so no man goes to their |
| 0:33.6 | grave with regret. We disrupt the drift of busyness and replace it with razor-focused intention, |
| 0:40.3 | passion, purpose, and direction. |
| 0:43.7 | We are the Dad Edge, |
| 0:45.9 | and we're here to change the game. |
| 0:47.8 | We're here to change the game. |
| 1:09.0 | I don't know. We are talking all things, the Adolescence, Netflix series, holy cow, man. |
| 1:10.3 | This is our last episode. What I'll tell you is without connection, |
| 1:13.6 | we don't have any influence. And without connection, our discipline is actually not even that |
| 1:18.6 | effective. What's up, gentlemen? I'm Larry Hagner. I'm your host and founder of this podcast, |
| 1:22.7 | this show, a movement, and welcome to the Dad Edge podcast. I've been doing these solo shows now on |
| 1:27.3 | Fridays, and from what I'm |
| 1:28.6 | getting from you guys, and from what you've been sharing with me over emails and DMs is you really |
| 1:32.9 | actually really like these, like short bursts of really good information. I've gotten a lot of great |
| 1:37.3 | feedback about our April podcast we were doing, all about motivation. Seems like that really |
| 1:42.0 | struck a chord with a lot of you guys, and now we're doing adolescence. And this last, this last episode, I really want to focus on one thing. And that is, |
| 1:50.0 | like I said, without connection, we don't have any influence. And if you really look at this, |
| 1:54.3 | and again, sorry guys, time out real quick. If you haven't seen adolescence, I'm telling you |
| 1:58.8 | right now, I'm going to be throwing some spoilers in this episode. So if you haven't seen adolescence. I'm telling you right now, I'm going to be throwing some spoilers in |
| 2:01.0 | this episode. So if you haven't seen it, you want to see it, you don't want to have spoilers, |
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