Brian Balfour: commitment

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…Startup Dads. We'll to it, and something you shared that has really stuck with me as a dad now is one of your biggest lessons as a dad is that your job as a parent is to bring your kids from being fully dependent to fully independent. Could you just share that lesson for folks? Because I thought it was really powerful. Yeah. It's like a spectrum. So consider your kid at age zero on one end of the spectrum and age 18 on the other end of the spectrum, and I think your job as a parent is to move them along this spectrum where at age zero obviously they're fully dependent. You're making all the decisions for them. And by 18 what you want to do is that they are making all the decisions for themselves, and what that requires is I think a gradual process of helping them make bigger and bigger decisions over their lifespan and you just end up being an input into those decisions. That even starts at an early age where my kids are still young. They're four and one and a half, but the example I give is I start to see one of my kids playing with some toy that he loves really rough and I know he's going to break it and I can do one of two things. I can either go and intervene and stop and take the toy away or I can get him to pause and get him to think about what might happen if he keeps playing with the toy like that and then let him do his thing. If he decides to break it, he decides to break it and he learns that lesson. But I don't know. That framework has just really resonated with me because I think as we all do, we probably have people in our lives that have a very hard time thinking for themselves and making those decisions. And so that's what my view is by the time I'm 18, I don't want to be deciding the college that my kids go to. I want to help create the environment where I'm helping them get the information they need to make those types of decisions and make decisions for themselves because I think ultimately that's what will hopefully set them up for a successful life. Amazing. Brian, this was everything I hoped it would be. I am so thankful they made time for this. Two final questions. Where can folks find you a line if they want to reach out and how can listeners be useful to you?…

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