Lael Stone

I'd love to hear.

Yeah.

I agree, I think that it was fascinating growing up, and I think a lot of times, you're right, there was parts of me that wanted to just go, no, I just want to be in trouble, like, send me to my room, I want to get grounded, because, and I think the reason that that was big for me was because it was confronting to, you know, think about what happened.

So it was always the, you know, what's behind the behavior and why did you feel the need to do this, as opposed to, you've done it, you're in trouble.

And I think there were times, especially as a teenager, a young teenager, where I didn't want to confront that because then I'd have to think about what was going on, but really in the long game and where I'm at now, I'm so grateful that that is how that all played out because it has allowed me to take a step back after something went down and go, okay, what would I do differently?

And what have I learned from this as opposed to...

you know being fearful to muck up again because there was always that safety of being able to know that we could come to you guys and there wouldn't be judgment it wouldn't be the scary thing it would be let's talk it through and how are you feeling about that so I think there's this openness of being able to yeah mess up as we should as young people because that's how we learn and grow but knowing that it wasn't going to be this big scary thing um when something did go wrong

I think the big thing is we really wanted you to take accountability seriously.

for why, especially in those teen years.

And Dad and I would say to you all the time, we made plenty of mistakes.

We messed up.

And we almost said to you, you're going to make mistakes.

Do it.

That's how you grow and how you learn.

But we want you to know that we are a really safe place to come to if those things go on.

Can you think about being little and perhaps when you might have picked fights with each other or you did something that was, you know, a bit mean to each other?

Now being adults, can you reflect back and go there was probably just a whole lot of needs in there that weren't being met or that you really needed that kind of loving boundary to push up against to offload those feelings?

A hundred percent.

I think especially when you came along, I was like –

What is this?