Dr. Alok Kanojia
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No.
You're a dictator.
They're the advisory council, but they're also the experts.
You're going to listen to what they say, and then you develop boundaries.
And then you got to be careful because there's a lot of stuff that we do to shoot ourselves in the foot, which we talked about, right?
Because you don't want your kid to dislike you.
So there's a lot of tolerating your kid.
They're never going to learn unless you let them fall.
Right.
Absolutely.
Right.
And so I think that you're doing a phenomenal job, but I think it starts with—and I know we're all supposed to say and instead of but—but I think that there's—you know, you've got to understand that your kid is going into a world where you can teach him how to use a gun, but—
someone is going to sell him a nuke right right so you have to literally you're gonna you have to teach you can't teach him how to be safe with this you have to teach him how to learn how to think safely exactly yes right how to think safely you have to teach him how to learn how to develop a healthy relationship with technology instead of imbuing him with a particular idea right
Yep.
So the foundation is you can never be sober.
So if I had to summarize the work that I do with kids, you can never be sober for someone else.
And that includes your kids.
Yeah.
So there's nothing you can do to make them have a healthy relationship.
You have to teach them...