Alex Clark

How do you know if you have a capable kid?

I think the majority of parents who are listening would say, oh, I have a capable kid.

But could you give like a little quiz or some questions to ask so they can truly see if they're raising a capable kid or not?

So with that teenage girl that said, I don't want to grow, what should be the correct parental response to something like that?

So if a child is in their middle school teenage years and they're scared to go to the dance, the school dance, how should you respond to that?

Are you dropping them off anyway?

And we each have our own individual phone numbers.

So you're not answering the phone for your mother anymore.

And talking to her friends or whatever.

Like the child is never interacting.

The other thing is, and this is just popping into my head as I'm talking, is we don't host dinner parties anymore.

Families are not hosting dinner parties.

And so to me, I'm like, that's a great opportunity as well.

There's going to be strangers that you don't know sitting at the table and then being trained on how to participate in conversation with others.

Listen and then ask questions based on what you're hearing.

Yes.

Because parents are also sitting on their screens and they're not inviting people over or going out.

Isn't that weird?

Would you say that the majority of parents today are in a panic?

Yes.