Do do do do do do do do here you go my name's Todd this is Gabi welcome back to another episode of Zen

Parenting Radio this is podcast number 507 why listen to Zen Parenting Radio because you'll feel

outstanding and who doesn't want to feel outstanding and I always remember our motto which is that the best predictor of a child's well-being is a parent's self-understanding.

On today's show, my wife, I never refer to you as my wife, do I? Let's do that. My friend named

sweetie is going to talk about gas lighting which i don't uh which is

going to be important because i don't know maybe i'm the last one but it's always been

confusing to me of what it is oh you're not the last one everybody says it's confusing that's

why i wanted to talk about it and a really like, is the word didactic, dynamic?

Didactic is a very kind of cool word that I don't know what it means.

Well, that's what I mean.

I don't know if I'm using the word correctly.

But basically, I just want to break it down because then we can use it with some authority

and understanding.

And I also think once we understand what the word gaslighting means, we recognize that there

either is someone gaslighting us or we look back on an experience in life and go, wow,

I was being gaslit.

Didactic, intended to teach particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive.

Yeah, so it's a bit didactic.

It's, um, I don't even understand what it means after reading the definition.

I think it just means, like, I want to give, like, instruction.

Like, I want to go step by step through.

And, of course, I mean, it's interesting because the moral inventory part, I don't really

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