Todd Adams

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 312: Todd Adams on How Men Can Better Show Up for Their Kids and Families · 22 Nov 2022 podcast

So it gets it gets really mixed up.

Yeah, I think the question is is it nature or nurture?

And I do, you know, there's obviously differences in the way boys mature.

I know boys mature much more slowly than girls.

So there is some, you know, hardwiring going on.

But for me personally, I think it's mostly conditioning.

It reminds me of the story that always brings me some sadness.

I have a bunch of really wonderful relationships with other men, and for the men I feel comfortable.

with I we hug and we say hi to each other and we there's physical touch involved which I know in this homophobic society is really scary to a lot of guys out there but I was in downtown in the suburb I live in and there's two boys holding hands and they're about four years old.

And I just I almost started crying because it was so beautiful to me.

Like what a wonderful thing.

And the reason I almost started crying was because I know that as soon as they get to kindergarten, they're gonna hear something.

In school that says that's not what boys do with each other.

So there is like this little sweet spot of we're all human beings, and whether we're boys or girls or we can be affectionate towards one another.

To answer your question, Debbie, I think it starts out really young and this conditioning is pounded into us from the get-go.

Personally, I feel really safe in my head.

So when my wife comes home from a hard day of work and she's

Talks about what went wrong, it's very natural for me to say, well, why don't you try this or this or this?

And I learned very early in my marriage that that is not a good way of being in relationship with my wife.

She wants an empathic ear.

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