George Mekhail

I think so too.

That's kind of why I became passionate about it and why I wanted to write the book because my wife and I, we have a lot of mantras around the house and rules.

I don't think we're strict parents necessarily.

You might have to ask my kids to see what they think.

I'll ask them out.

But, uh, but you know, we, we do have boundaries.

We do, we do have, but I think actually having boundaries and having clarity around like, here's what's acceptable.

Here's what isn't acceptable.

Um, is something that's been lost on this generation of parenting.

It's just been like, we're just winging it.

We're just making things up every day.

And that just creates chaos.

Exactly.

You just have to be reasonable.

And the other thing that people miss is you have to talk to your kids, especially when they get to an age where they can reason and you're trying to encourage them to think critically.

then it's on you to actually engage in that, right?

So it's like, instead of saying yes or no to a request, it's like, let's have a conversation about it.

Tell me why you want to do this.

And I found that a lot of times you'll land at the thing that you both want, the thing that you ultimately wanted to sort of enforce that would have sounded strict,

with enough reasoning, you can have them arrive there on their own, and then it's their idea, and then you're not the bad guy who's strict, right?