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Why you shouldn’t want your kids to be happy

Zen Pop

Todd and Cathy Adams

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Arts

4.9637 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2012

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Cathy and Todd discuss why it’s important to role model contentment for our children.  Instead of believing that situations or people should “make us” content, can we find contentment in our own skin?  Is contentment the same thing as happiness?  Listen and find out!  They also discuss Cathy’s girl weekend, the hot weather, and whether or not Aquaman was a true superhero – what did he do? How did he help?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, my name is Todd Adams.

0:05.3

This is Kathy Adams.

0:06.5

Zen Parenting Radio.

0:07.3

Welcome, everybody.

0:08.1

This is going to be the best show we've ever done.

0:10.0

Why?

0:11.4

Just because I decided that.

0:13.0

I know.

0:13.5

You don't even know what we're going to talk about yet.

0:15.1

I don't have a freaking, is that a swear word?

0:17.6

No.

0:18.0

A freaking clue of what we're going to talk about.

0:19.9

I'm all about off the cup.

0:21.0

But I remember talking or listening to Wayne Dyer speak one time.

0:24.8

And he said, get ready for your life to change after this evening.

0:28.2

And I'm like, wow, he really sets his expectations high.

0:31.5

And his justification was, I don't want to come in and say, oh, you're going to hopefully have a good time.

0:36.3

You go in with confidence. You say, this is going to be a great show.

0:39.1

Well, because the thing is, is it's not about what he's going to say.

0:41.7

It's about your willingness to listen and take it in.

0:44.0

So really, we're challenging our audience to listen and take it in.

0:47.2

Yeah, because actually I do have a topic I'd like to talk about, helping ourselves and our children be happy?

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