Danny Ricker
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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And it's because they're blown by wind constantly. And that makes them strong. And then they're kind of indestructible. And I do think that is a good metaphor for kids. And there are safe ways in which you can give them a little independence. And my 11-year-old, in the last six months, we were at the grocery store, the Ralph's we go to every week. And I had a little list, and I tore it in half.
And I go, you're going to get this half of the list, and I'm going to get this half of the list. And she looked at me like I was...
insane she's like what like what do you mean and i and i'm thinking like yeah and really all she's got to do is go over like three aisles and grab some bananas or whatever and she did that and she came back to me and she just had the biggest smile on her face and she just like couldn't believe she had done it and it was such a simple thing um but i do think that's important and you know obviously you got to weigh a lot of factors in that not everyone's comfortable with that and and you know no shame if people aren't but i you know i do think we i
Social media, I think, and the internet, we see so much now of how much people parent and how much everyone can comment on how you're parenting and all these things that I do think you can kind of make some personal choices to dial some things back in the appropriate way and give your kids a little independence, you know?
I think it's a good reminder. It is. You know, it's funny. When I went to college, I remember my first week I lived in a dorm and all my clothes were dirty. And I went, oh, I don't know how to do laundry. And the reason I didn't is because my mom loves me and, you know, was trying to help me out in high school and all these things.
But I just went, oh, and I remember in my dorm popping the lid of the washing machine open and reading the instructions on the bottom of the lid. Who Who has ever done that? But you know, besides like me and I was like, Oh, okay. I need like detergent. I had no idea. And that just came from my mom, like wanting to take care of me, like out of the kindness of her heart.
But I've remembered that stuff and I've gone like, okay, so now like my 11 year old, like knows how to use the washing machine. And like, if she gets to like Monday morning and she's going to school and she goes, oh, none of my pants are clean. I go, well, I guess you should have done your laundry this weekend. And that happened like one time and like now she's on top of it, you know?
And so I think it's more of like a mindset, you know? It's like we, there's these dramatic examples of like, yeah, I sent my toddler, you know, into the gas station by herself or whatever. But then there's two just going like, yeah, you can like take care of yourself. Like you can make yourself a bowl of cereal if I'm not awake yet and you're hungry and all these things.
And I think it's like, you can start small and once they start to get those feelings of confidence and independence, it's infectious for them, I think. And now my daughter, she'll ask for a little too much. She'll be like, can I... And we'll go, maybe when you're a little bit older and whatever, but... Hey, dad, can I buy a pack of cigarettes?
Yeah. You have to start early with that one. You know, it's like once, once the cat's out of the bag, you can't put it back in. But yeah, I, it just occurred to me like, yeah, like I'm always listening to like, you know, like punk music in the car or whatever. And, and the first time the kids were like, yeah, can we put on, um, you know, Encanto, I'd be like, ah,
I just, it doesn't play in the car, you know, like kid, kid music, just, it doesn't, it's not wired to play, you know, kid music in the car and they go, all right. You know, like they don't, they don't know how stuff works and they can't Google shit. So like, you're kind of the, you know, you're their de facto expert on everything.
And I, I think it's totally fine to lie to kids and you know, like they, I feel like they lie to us about everything and I feel like it's okay to Just to wedge a couple in. A little white lie.
A little white lie.
You know what? I think I'm totally fine doing that. I mean, I have a whole chapter in the book where I recommend we just get rid of all of them, not because we're lying to the kids, but just because they're a huge pain in the ass for parents. But I do feel like you can... It's kind of the first time they get to solve a mystery, because I think rarely is a kid told about those and they go...
what you know and it's like the end of the sixth sense like i feel like they they kind of know you know like yeah even my my son right now is he keeps going things like well uh you know the easter bunny if he's real will bring me whatever i go all right the fact that you're saying that is like you you know and they've put the pieces together and like we you know we're not particularly good at like hiding the you know the the evidence yeah yeah my i remember like i think three easters ago
Because, you know, you want to like... ideally all the eggs are in the backyard or whatever before the kids wake up, but kids wake up at like five 30 in the morning. So, so you're like, all right, what am I supposed to do this to wake up at four? And then I'm like, we could do it at night, but we have, you know, we've like raccoons and stuff in our backyard. And so I'm like, they're going to eat.
So, so I remember what the kids woke up and they looked in the backyard and they go like, Oh, the Easter money didn't come. And I had to go, I go, he hasn't come yet. You know, he's got to go to all the houses. So he just hasn't, you know, he's like the Amazon guy. He's got to, you know, he's going to make his way here, you know?
Yeah. And so, you know, it's like kids aren't stupid. You know, they put that together eventually.
Yeah, I know. The keeping up of the backstories is a lot for us. And one thing that I think when my daughter figured out Santa Claus, I think kind of the best thing you can do when they figure out is go, okay, you You got me. But now you get to kind of be part of like the Illuminati who knows about this. Right.
You know, and so because then you don't want them to go to school and go, hey, dude, guess what I found out. So you're like, hey, so you're kind of part of the like Santa crew now or you're part, you know, whatever.
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