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Please welcome to Stan the Reason, our weekly podcast. If you haven't noticed already, but I bet you have, I'm not Greg Kokol.

My name's John Noise. I'm one of the speakers here at Stan to Reason, but I am not alone on this podcast. I have my faithful companion, Robbie Lashua. You with us?

I'm here, man. Thanks so much. This is going to be a fun day.

I got nervous there. There was a pause, and I was like, oh, he's not there. Can you believe that they let us host this program?

No, I have no idea what they're thinking, but here we go. It's going to be great.

It is going to be great, because we've got a really great topic for us to talk about. Something that's very relevant, not only to Robbie and I, but I think also relevant to our larger listening audience.

At least I hope it is. It's raising children, you know, parenting and a perspective on it. And Robbie, you've got kids, right?

I do, yep. I have one wife and I have four kids. So I've got a daughter, Greta. She's 10. I've got a son, Cohen. He's eight. I've got another daughter who is Elsie, who is six.

And then my fourth kid is another boy and Jesse, he's three. So dude, I'm in the thick of it right now.

That's like, that's a lot of, that's a lot of kids. Not a lot of wives. That's good. It is. No, no, no, yeah. Just one. That's right. And you two, man, you have, you have the same amount of kids as me. You have four kids, right?

I do. I've got, I've got four amazing daughters. And I've got Eva. She's 12. I've got Phoebe. She's 10, almost 11. I've got Joelle. She's nine.

And I have a net who just turned six last month. And they are a handful, but I wouldn't have it any other way. They're amazing. I have a question for you. I'm, I'm, it's kind of like not in line with, I mean, it's in line with what we're talking about, but I just came to my mind. What, I'm asking, I'd like to know what you think the most challenging part of parenting is.

Oh, man, the most challenging part. Well, aside from me and my sin issues, not screwing them up, right? That's number one is like, I'm part of the problem. You're perfect. Aside from that, I think one of the, no, no, not even close.

I think one of the hardest things for me is, and again, this isn't like, this isn't like a new revelation or anything, but it is amazing to me how these same four kids can come from the same two people and be raised in the same environment.

They are completely different from one another personality wise. So like, I really like, I like to figure things out and I like to have order and I like to know what I'm doing. And so like raising kids with discipline and raising kids with encouragement is so weird for me because each one of them is so different from the other one personality wise that it doesn't work the same with each kid.

And I think that's been one of the one of the hardest things for me, raising the kids is realizing it's not a cookie cutter model. They're all so different. And I need to adapt and discipline differently and encourage differently and teach differently.

That's been one of the hardest things for me to learn and to get good at with my kids. Yeah, I tend to agree. Actually, it's like one of one of the most difficult things for me is it goes along with kind of like what you're saying is consistency.

And when you start mixing up the different personalities with each children and where they are in the stage, like for right now, the major struggle in my house and these struggles are like, I hope that these are the struggles forever because they're almost nothing.

There's no real consequence to them. The major struggle that we're going through right now is my 12-year-old is wanting to stay up later than my 10-year-old and my 9-year-old and my 6-year-old.

So we're wrestling with this and how can you stay consistent and while allowing the other kid, like one kid to grow up while keeping the others kind of, I think the word I have is protected or insulated, I guess, is kind of like what I would say.

What I would say that we do we protect them, right? So my 12-year-old wants her independence, certain freedoms. She wants to watch movies that are a little bit more mature. She's like, you know, Monsters Inc is no longer appealing to my 12-year-old.

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