Craig Robinson

He got scared off.

Sasha, the feisty one, was very scary to her father.

You know, that's, it means something to, at all these stages, to, you know, just have these honest conversations where your kids can, they can disagree with you.

They can point out stuff because it's like, I think that gave me,

us the confidence that you need when you're out there and at some point you've got to advocate for yourself in life.

And if you don't feel like you've been taught to advocate for yourself at home, then where do you get the practice of speaking up for yourself and demanding a level of respect and then how to do it?

All of that stuff is practice at home around the table.

which doesn't require any money.

It doesn't require... My parents didn't go to college.

They weren't wealthy and connected, but they had just a baseline common sense and a respect for us as humans that just sort of came through.

And I say that to all parents because we sit here very privileged, right?

With resources and so on and so forth.

But we weren't raised... We were raised in a little bitty apartment with a mother that stayed home and a father that was a...

pump engineer at the water filtration plant all his life.

I think he never had, rarely got a new car.

You know, we went on one family vacation every year and drove to this Duke's Happy Holiday Resort.

Now, we did not have resources, but we had parents who fundamentally liked us.

And the same way that you build that like relationship in a marriage.

It's like your kids have to know that you like who they are truly for themselves.

I want to ask particularly you,