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Speaker 1: Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. Here thousands of

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Speaker 2: Hi everybody, It's Tuesday, and when possible, I have the

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Speaker 2: Ultimate Issues Hour. Because if you get the Ultimate Issues right,

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Speaker 2: you will have a much better life. You will lead

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Speaker 2: a better life, and you will make a better society.

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Speaker 2: And it's a pretty good combination. So I'd like to

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Speaker 2: talk to you today about what is it that children

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Speaker 2: really need? And here is my thesis which explains much

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Speaker 2: of what has called a deterioration, massive deterioration in our

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Speaker 2: society over the last century and particularly half century. So

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Speaker 2: let me put it in this way. What do you

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Speaker 2: think children need more expressions of love or security, expressions

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Speaker 2: you must do that, you can't do this, and you

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Speaker 2: must do that. Which do you think will produce a

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Speaker 2: happier and finer human being. I don't know exactly why

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Speaker 2: it happened, I will admit that, and maybe some people

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Speaker 2: do know what. I would love to learn why, But

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Speaker 2: I have one theory because I can date it. The

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Speaker 2: World War two generation decided that what their children most

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Speaker 2: need is love, expressions of love. I love you, I

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Speaker 2: much I love you? And that's fine if it's accompanied

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Speaker 2: by security and guardrails. Guardrails is you'll fall off unless

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Speaker 2: you follow the following rules of life. There are no

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Speaker 2: guardrails in a home without discipline as the best way

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Speaker 2: of I guess explaining what guardrails means. And so after

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Speaker 2: the love preoccupation came unconditional love preoccupation. Not only should

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Speaker 2: you tell your child how much you love him or her,

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Speaker 2: but that it is unconditional that no matter how your

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Speaker 2: expressions of love. You can tell I'm not a big

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Speaker 2: believer in this, and I love my children. They know

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Speaker 2: I love them. But my primary concentration was on guardrails

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Speaker 2: and security. Here's how to lead a better life. This

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Speaker 2: a very big deal in the raising of children. When

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Speaker 2: did this whole love preoccupation begin is a very interesting question,

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Speaker 2: and we'll get into that one eighth Prager seven seven six, Hi, everybody,

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Speaker 2: Ultimate Issues Hour on raising children? Do you agree, disagree,

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Speaker 2: partially agree, partially disagree. We've overdone it on the expressions

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Speaker 2: So we went from parents primarily teaching their kids' values,

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Speaker 2: but unconditional love, the message of which is, no matter

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Speaker 2: no matter how you behave. I'm curious, does anybody, there's

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Speaker 2: any rational individual think you will get good behavior from

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Speaker 2: people who are told you're being love. You will be

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Speaker 2: the civilizational decline. The spoiled brats at Harvard, these nothings,

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Speaker 2: I know some terrific people who went to Harvard. My

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Speaker 2: attention and praise. A lap. It's known as lap. Yes,

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Speaker 2: so in fact, sit on my lap. It comes from love, attention, praise.

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Speaker 2: That is where the word lap comes from. Look it up, sean, yep,

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Speaker 2: that's right, Sit on my left attention. What was the

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Speaker 2: in wonder. I don't understand. I so loved them, so

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Speaker 2: don't know how important it is. The other thing. I

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Speaker 2: don't have an answer to this, but how often if

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Speaker 2: what point? And maybe there is no point. I have

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Speaker 2: begin to lack meaning? Maybe? Never? Okay, I'm totally okay

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Speaker 1: This episode of Timeless Wisdom will continue right after this.

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Speaker 1: Now back to more of Dennis Prager's timeless wisdom.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's see here, yep, Dave in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Speaker 3: Hello, Yeah, they're just wanted to say. I agree with

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Speaker 3: what you're saying, and really, true love includes discipline. It's

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Speaker 3: just that sorry, it's raining here pretty hard. But the

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Speaker 3: reason God disciplines us is because he loves us. So

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Speaker 3: a parent child relationship is no different. And we discipline

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Speaker 3: be good people and not just tell them yes all

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Speaker 3: And that's where the entitlement comes from. No respect for

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Speaker 2: I agree with you, that's correct. The interesting I would

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Speaker 2: there is a metric in Google. It's a astonishing thing

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Speaker 2: you folks have to say. William and Ryan, who you are? Killow?

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Speaker 4: Good day to you, Dennis. But coast law is much

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Speaker 4: better than broccoli. Neither is awesome, but coast law.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, No, no, it's a fair point. Although broccoli properly

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So, when younger brother and I were teenagers, my

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Speaker 4: what the boxers in China that did two addicts during

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Speaker 2: So well. I have a lot of anecdotes about that,

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Speaker 2: it was fascinating. Caller after caller said, because my mother

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Speaker 2: overheard by child Protective services the parent might lose custody

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Speaker 2: of my younger son. When it does the podcast ap Unfiltered,

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Speaker 2: Aaron Prager unfiltered one word and he was addicted for

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Speaker 2: one of them said to me, you know, I, oh

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Speaker 2: my father, my life. I said, really, how so? Because

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Speaker 2: one day he said to me, get the f out

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Speaker 2: So now, I know many of you will say, well,

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Speaker 2: But he didn't say I love you. It was get

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Speaker 5: Hi, Dennis, how you doing.

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Speaker 4: So?

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Speaker 5: I believe that this unconditional love has come as a

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Speaker 5: Yes, works after you say it gives evidence that I

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Speaker 2: Yes, we have overdone it with expressions of love for children.

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Speaker 2: but they also got it from somebody. Oh right, let's

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Speaker 6: Hello, Hello, mister Prager. I love your show and I

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Speaker 6: love how you bring clarity to these issues.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 6: First of all, let me say I agree completely with

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Speaker 6: I'm sure you know what that is, but I'm also

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Speaker 6: if a Christian doesn't recognize that the vast majority of

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Speaker 2: Good You wanted to call up about the Hebrew Word.

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Speaker 6: Has said, Yes, I studied out the origins of how

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Speaker 6: this could have happened in evangelical circles that unconditional love

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Speaker 2: Well, that's interesting. I had never heard that, and of

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Speaker 2: always a challenge. So God is el Rahum, a god

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Speaker 7: I was just going to say, I believe there has

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Speaker 7: I was going to say, God didn't give up at me.

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Speaker 7: And I believe I had way more love after I

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Speaker 2: Right, So I have a question. Hold on, I'll pose

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Speaker 2: Is our lady still here rose in Chicago? Thank you good?

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Speaker 7: I had four children.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what evil you commit, I will still

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Speaker 7: I don't think I would have said that, But I

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Speaker 2: But why not? If in fact unconditional love is an ideal?

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Speaker 2: Unconditional means there is no condition under which I would

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Speaker 2: Why not? And I don't know if God has said

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Speaker 1: Now back to more of Dennis Brager's timeless wisdom.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's see here de Plaine, Illinois and Ross. Hello, Ross, Hello, Dennis.

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Speaker 2: Can you hear me? I hear you. It's a slight reverberation,

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Speaker 2: Probably, Yeah, yep, I agree with you a little bit. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's it. I hope it's not bad. Ed in Wheaton, Illinois, Hello, Dennis.

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Speaker 8: It's always a pleasure to talk to you. My ninety

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Speaker 2: Right so here is here is one of my challenges.

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Speaker 2: this is such an important subject. You know. It evolved

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Speaker 2: not to evolved, but evolved into discussions on unconditional which

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Speaker 2: is the way it works. There's an organic evolution in

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Speaker 2: many hours of my program. But remember the the point

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Speaker 2: that I open with for this Ultimate Issues hour is

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Speaker 2: that effusive praise and love is dangerous if certainly if

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Speaker 2: not accompanied by equal amounts of discipline, I mean equal

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Speaker 2: Just for the record, we have really good ones here well, Orlando, Florida, mic.

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Speaker 9: Hey, Denni's always a pleasure sore. Okay, So my dad

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Speaker 9: told me that I had to give him back his

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Speaker 9: I almost got why out. I was like why because

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Speaker 9: He's like, because you steal from most, we can't trust you.

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Speaker 9: You lie to us all the time. You know you're

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Speaker 9: not welcome here on supervised And so I went out

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Speaker 9: and I'm a low bottom drunk addict and I hit bottoms.

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Speaker 9: And today, man, they try to eliminate bottoms. Parents try

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Speaker 9: to eliminate bottoms.

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Speaker 2: That's a great line. That is a great line. Wow.

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Speaker 9: And also one other thing is the self esteem thing

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Speaker 9: is like people think they can give people self esteem,

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Speaker 9: you have to earn it. You have to earn it

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Speaker 9: over like thirty years now, in the last eleven twelve

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Speaker 9: years of my dad's life, we had the greatest.

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Speaker 2: Related I believe it. I believe it. That point on,

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Speaker 2: they don't want us to hit bottom. That's a big

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Speaker 2: reason for so many of those disgusting kids at Harvard Yard.

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Speaker 2: And also a big reason. It is the primary reason,

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Speaker 2: a primary, maybe not the for the neolistic leftism in

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Speaker 2: gratitude of a generation. They were raised by parents who

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Speaker 2: didn't want them to ever have any pain. This has

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Speaker 2: been timeless wisdom.

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