The Bird Show.

Melissa pointed out an email or an article to me yesterday that hit close to home because me

and intern Carl were talking about this very thing just a couple weeks ago.

Yeah, I mean, it's an article about how weak, I just said how weak our children have become

because it's almost like we're coddling, we're too protective, we don't want our children

to, you know, experience anything too bad, It's to the point sometimes where we don't

want them to experience competition because we don't want somebody to feel bad if they win or

lose. So it's a whole article about just how weak our kids are getting and how weak our young

songs are getting. It's probably the single biggest argument or the most often argument that my wife and I have most

often with our five-year-old Hayden is me feeling like she's babying him and she thinking that

I come down too hard on him or I push him too hard. In turn, Carl, going through the same thing. Yeah, I go through the same thing. I have a five-year-old boy too. And I also have two girls. So it's three women in the house. My wife spends a lot of time with my son because I'm always at work or whatnot. And so I'm always going through that. She's doing real good. It's took a long, she's going to come a long way. But when he was first born, it's just a, it's always a power struggle. It's like it's a tough world out there. And I don't know what the compromise is, but it's tough, you know. And I think we're raising this kid, and I think Hayden is a really sensitive kid and I want him to have that but I also want

him to be able to turn on a switch if he needs to stick up for himself and I'm just not seeing that

and the bottom line is he gets to spend a hell of a lot more time with Stacy during the day because

she stays home with the kids than I do so he's got more of her influence and we just an eye on it, man. And I don't know what the compromise is. Hey, we need to have a vent. Me and you, bro, we need to have a vent, man. We just need to vent, man, because my kids the exact same way. Now, he takes after his mom, which is she's real, you know, she's a sensitive lady. And my son is like that. So I'm just always at him, you know, because like you said, man, it's a cruel, cold world out here.

And, you know, you just want to make sure your son is ready to handle all the ignorance that Don Mammis puts short.

Well, I want to be able to ask you about the difference between your son and your daughter because I think you'd have to prepare all of them. And I know it's more acceptable for a girl, you know, for, you know, we got to teach our boys to be strong, but I think you've got to teach all of them to be strong. But as a non-parent, can you give us a specific example of what you're talking about? You mean where we struggle on him yeah like what the

argument would be over okay well one is how to handle when other kids are like pushing hayden around

so he's on the playground it's on the playground somebody's taking his stuff or whatever uh i have tried

to teach him that you warn the kid that look if you if you push me, I'm going to push you back.

If you take my stuff, you can't take my stuff where Stacey is avoid a fight at all costs.

Let it go.

Let it go.

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