Timeless Wisdom: Raising Good Kids (Part 2)
Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager
Salem Podcast Network
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On Today's Show: Dennis shares valuable insights on parenting and character development. He emphasizes the importance of teaching children to prioritize behavior over feelings, citing the example of a 26-year-old woman who cut off communication with her mother despite her loving upbringing. Dennis also discusses the role of religion in shaping moral values and the challenges of raising children in a free society. He offers practical advice on setting boundaries, dealing with difficult situations, and encouraging good behavior in children. This conversation is a must-listen for parents seeking wisdom on navigating the complexities of raising good kids.
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| 0:48.4 | And finally, behavior over feelings is a key to character development. |
| 0:57.5 | Behavior over feelings. |
| 0:59.9 | You can't, just as you have to fight your nature, part of it is fighting your feelings. |
| 1:05.3 | How you feel is interesting, but how you act is infinitely more important. |
| 1:16.6 | What are you doing? Not what are you feeling. We all have every sort of feeling in the world. Good feelings, bad feelings. Look, a person could have immense good feelings and not do any good. |
| 1:23.6 | There are other people whose minds are filled with a lot of bad thoughts and they do a lot of good because they know that they have to fight their feelings. |
| 1:32.4 | Feelings are feelings and actions are actions. |
| 1:35.6 | And building character is building actions. |
| 1:39.6 | So your child has to know, and here is a rule of life, it's worth telling your kid. |
| 1:44.7 | It's worth telling yourself, by the way. Most of what we want is not good for us. |
| 1:49.2 | It's a terrible law of life. |
| 1:53.4 | But it's a fact. This is what I call the brain-mind conflict. The brain is the seat of bad things. It is the seat of unhappiness. |
| 2:04.6 | It is the seat. It's the animal part of us, the brain. Brain wants cheesecake. |
| 2:09.3 | Mind says, maybe not. Right? I mean, |
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