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Speaker 2: Hi everybody, It's Tuesday, and when possible, I have the
Speaker 2: Ultimate Issues Hour. Because if you get the Ultimate Issues right,
Speaker 2: you will have a much better life. You will lead
Speaker 2: a better life, and you will make a better society.
Speaker 2: And it's a pretty good combination. So I'd like to
Speaker 2: talk to you today about what is it that children
Speaker 2: really need? And here is my thesis which explains much
Speaker 2: of what has called a deterioration, massive deterioration in our
Speaker 2: society over the last century and particularly half century. So
Speaker 2: let me put it in this way. What do you
Speaker 2: think children need more expressions of love or security, expressions
Speaker 2: of love or guardrails meaning you can't do this, and
Speaker 2: you must do that, you can't do this, and you
Speaker 2: must do that. Which do you think will produce a
Speaker 2: happier and finer human being. I don't know exactly why
Speaker 2: it happened, I will admit that, and maybe some people
Speaker 2: do know what. I would love to learn why, But
Speaker 2: I have one theory because I can date it. The
Speaker 2: World War two generation decided that what their children most
Speaker 2: need is love, expressions of love. I love you, I
Speaker 2: love you, I love you. Have I told you how
Speaker 2: much I love you? And that's fine if it's accompanied
Speaker 2: by security and guardrails. Guardrails is you'll fall off unless
Speaker 2: you follow the following rules of life. There are no
Speaker 2: guardrails in a home without discipline as the best way
Speaker 2: of I guess explaining what guardrails means. And so after
Speaker 2: the love preoccupation came unconditional love preoccupation. Not only should
Speaker 2: you tell your child how much you love him or her,
Speaker 2: but that it is unconditional that no matter how your
Speaker 2: child behaves, your child will just receive effusive love, effusive
Speaker 2: expressions of love. You can tell I'm not a big
Speaker 2: believer in this, and I love my children. They know
Speaker 2: I love them. But my primary concentration was on guardrails
Speaker 2: and security. Here's how to lead a better life. This
Speaker 2: is what you need to do. To be kind and
Speaker 2: to be good. You have to pursue truth, all these
Speaker 2: values values, And I tried to be a model, obviously
Speaker 2: not obviously, I also tried to be a model. That's
Speaker 2: a very big deal in the raising of children. When
Speaker 2: did this whole love preoccupation begin is a very interesting question,
Speaker 2: and we'll get into that one eighth Prager seven seven six, Hi, everybody,
Speaker 2: Ultimate Issues Hour on raising children? Do you agree, disagree,
Speaker 2: partially agree, partially disagree. We've overdone it on the expressions
Speaker 2: of love to the detriment of moral instruction, which includes discipline.
Speaker 2: So we went from parents primarily teaching their kids' values,
Speaker 2: to then primarily expressing how much they love them, to
Speaker 2: then announcing to the world how important not just love
Speaker 2: but unconditional love, the message of which is, no matter
Speaker 2: how you behave, your mom and dad will love you,
Speaker 2: no matter how you behave. I'm curious, does anybody, there's
Speaker 2: any rational individual think you will get good behavior from
Speaker 2: people who are told you're being love. You will be
Speaker 2: loved no matter how you behave. That's why, by the way,
Speaker 2: I'm not a fan. This is a theological discussion for
Speaker 2: another time. I've had it with you on the Ultimate
Speaker 2: Issues Hour. I'm not a fan of saying God unconditionally
Speaker 2: loves and I don't even know what the biblical basis is.
Speaker 2: I know the biblical basis of God's love for humanity,
Speaker 2: but unconditionally, I don't know where the basis is, whether
Speaker 2: it's behavior or faith. You've got to do something. You
Speaker 2: just you can't go on the way you were before
Speaker 2: and still be loved. Or maybe you're loved, but you're
Speaker 2: not saved, at least in Christian terms. So it changed
Speaker 2: the way children were raised. That is the root of
Speaker 2: the civilizational decline. The spoiled brats at Harvard, these nothings,
Speaker 2: these narcissistic, arrogant, immoral nothings. Not all Harvard students, my
Speaker 2: dear Julie, who might have a podcast with, went to Harvard.
Speaker 2: I know some terrific people who went to Harvard. My
Speaker 2: brother went to Harvard. But by and large, I'm using
Speaker 2: Harvard as an example because the most prestigious university, and
Speaker 2: they have a particularly high percentage of a holes for
Speaker 2: students and faculty. One might add those faculty were raised
Speaker 2: the way I'm describing the oldest faculty is still post
Speaker 2: World War two. The praise that I hear parents give
Speaker 2: to their children is beyond belief. Everything is awesome. I mean,
Speaker 2: the word awesome deserves its own ultimate issues. Hour you'll
Speaker 2: give an order to a waiter a waitress. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: say I'll have I'll have a side of of coast
Speaker 2: law awesome. I'm thinking, why is the side of coast
Speaker 2: law awesome? Would a side of fries be awesome too? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I suspect so, But a side of bruccoli awesome? How
Speaker 2: about I won't have a side awesome? So no side
Speaker 2: or any side is awesome awesome. It was reserved historically
Speaker 2: in the English language for that which inspires awe. You know,
Speaker 2: running the four minute mile, climbing everest, saving a kid's
Speaker 2: life who fell into an icy pond. That's those things
Speaker 2: are awesome. But the praise, the praise that is offered
Speaker 2: to kids, the unconditional love. So it produces these people
Speaker 2: who expect life to present them with constant love and
Speaker 2: attention and praise. A lap. It's known as lap. Yes,
Speaker 2: so in fact, sit on my lap. It comes from love, attention, praise.
Speaker 2: That is where the word lap comes from. Look it up, sean, yep,
Speaker 2: that's right, Sit on my left attention. What was the
Speaker 2: piece for you? Praise you? Let me give you more love,
Speaker 2: attention and praise. Then then people get these spoiled narcissists
Speaker 2: in wonder. I don't understand. I so loved them, so
Speaker 2: loved him, so loved her. Believe it or not, most
Speaker 2: children that's not what they most need. Now. The opposite
Speaker 2: of love, hate, abuse, et cetera. Is evil that goes
Speaker 2: without saying but oodles of love. I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's not necessarily bad because if it's accompanied by guardrails, discipline,
Speaker 2: et cetera, it could be fine. But I don't. I
Speaker 2: don't know how important it is. The other thing. I
Speaker 2: don't have an answer to this, but how often if
Speaker 2: you tell your child how much you love them? At
Speaker 2: what point? And maybe there is no point. I have
Speaker 2: no answer to this, But at what point does it
Speaker 2: begin to lack meaning? Maybe? Never? Okay, I'm totally okay
Speaker 2: with that. I don't have an answer to it.
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Speaker 2: Okay, let's see here, yep, Dave in Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 3: Hello, Yeah, they're just wanted to say. I agree with
Speaker 3: what you're saying, and really, true love includes discipline. It's
Speaker 3: just that sorry, it's raining here pretty hard. But the
Speaker 3: reason God disciplines us is because he loves us. So
Speaker 3: a parent child relationship is no different. And we discipline
Speaker 3: our kids because we love them. We want them to
Speaker 3: be good people and not just tell them yes all
Speaker 3: the time, because you tell them yes all the time.
Speaker 3: And that's where the entitlement comes from. No respect for
Speaker 3: our authority or for our elders. I grew up respecting
Speaker 3: my elders, and that's what's going on nowadays. It seems
Speaker 3: like and if you tell them no, it's considered emotional abuse.
Speaker 2: I agree with you, that's correct. The interesting I would
Speaker 2: be very curious to have some I don't know if
Speaker 2: it's doable, but I would be curious in the extra
Speaker 2: to juxtapose children raised in religious Jewish and Christians homes
Speaker 2: Christian homes and children raised in secular homes. I'm not
Speaker 2: even asking now for the result, although that would be
Speaker 2: obviously important and interesting. But the methodology. You know, I've
Speaker 2: told you that as far as unconditional love is concerned,
Speaker 2: there is a metric in Google. It's a astonishing thing
Speaker 2: that it exists, which tells you how often a phrase
Speaker 2: or I think even a word is used was used.
Speaker 2: Starting in the early twentieth century starting in nineteen hundred,
Speaker 2: and if you look up unconditional love, it's virtually at
Speaker 2: zero until the nineteen fifties, and then its skyrockets like
Speaker 2: a ski slope in the nineteen sixties. So interestingly, this
Speaker 2: notion did not come from the religious community. It came
Speaker 2: from the sixties anti religious value system. So when Christians,
Speaker 2: it's usually Christians in this case more than Jews. When
Speaker 2: religious Christians as opposed to religious Jews, secular Jews might
Speaker 2: say the same speak of unconditional love. They don't know
Speaker 2: they've been influenced by secular society. Back in a moment,
Speaker 2: What so lap I like that on love, attention, praise,
Speaker 2: I got a question for you. I'm talking about the
Speaker 2: bombardment of expressions of love on children and how it's
Speaker 2: not worked out. Things they need more. Here here's an
Speaker 2: interesting one. I just thought about this. So think about
Speaker 2: your childhood. What would you have preferred your parent between
Speaker 2: the two things They're telling you how much they love
Speaker 2: you or telling you how much they admire you. I
Speaker 2: don't have an answer, but it just occurred to me
Speaker 2: to ask the question. Yeah, anyway, I think that the
Speaker 2: expressions of love I think love has been sort of
Speaker 2: cheapened in the last what is it, Well, not one
Speaker 2: hundred years, but since the post World War two era
Speaker 2: were approaching one hundred years. Okay, let's see here what
Speaker 2: you folks have to say. William and Ryan, who you are? Killow?
Speaker 4: Good day to you, Dennis. But coast law is much
Speaker 4: better than broccoli. Neither is awesome, but coast law.
Speaker 2: Anyway, No, no, it's a fair point. Although broccoli properly
Speaker 2: flavored with salt and seasoning could be delicious, but go ahead, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So, when younger brother and I were teenagers, my
Speaker 4: father caught my younger brother smoking pots and he sat
Speaker 4: us boat down with his mother, with my mother standing
Speaker 4: next to him. Uh, and he said to my brother, Uh,
Speaker 4: you're not going to do this again. If I catch
Speaker 4: you doing anything like it, I'm gonna do to you
Speaker 4: what the boxers in China that did two addicts during
Speaker 4: the Opium War. Do you know what that is? And
Speaker 4: of course my brother and nobody told him that they
Speaker 4: the box blew literally blew the brains out of the
Speaker 4: opium attics. And my brother started to well up a bit,
Speaker 4: and he was a tough kid. And then my father
Speaker 4: just looked at him and said, listen, I have to
Speaker 4: do this because I'm your father. I love you, and
Speaker 4: that's why I do this. Now get out of here,
Speaker 4: you know. And that was it and my brother never
Speaker 4: did it again.
Speaker 2: So well. I have a lot of anecdotes about that,
Speaker 2: some of which I think some listeners will recall, but
Speaker 2: it's worth it. I did an hour on the on
Speaker 2: the show many really many years ago. If you didn't
Speaker 2: take drugs in high school or didn't use drugs in
Speaker 2: high school, well I didn't you. I had no idea
Speaker 2: what answers I would get. I was curious of what
Speaker 2: prevented people who didn't use that from using them. And
Speaker 2: it was fascinating. Caller after caller said, because my mother
Speaker 2: would kill me, you wouldn't have that today. My mother
Speaker 2: would kill me. Anybody who said that, and it was
Speaker 2: overheard by child Protective services the parent might lose custody
Speaker 2: of their child. I have another great one, a friend
Speaker 2: of my younger son. When it does the podcast ap Unfiltered,
Speaker 2: Aaron Prager unfiltered one word and he was addicted for
Speaker 2: a number of years. He's been sober for seven and
Speaker 2: he's really is leading a wonderful, productive life. So I
Speaker 2: met some of his closest friends, also covering addicts, and
Speaker 2: one of them said to me, you know, I, oh
Speaker 2: my father, my life. I said, really, how so? Because
Speaker 2: one day he said to me, get the f out
Speaker 2: of my house and come don't come back until you're sober.
Speaker 2: So now, I know many of you will say, well,
Speaker 2: that was a loving thing to do. Okay, I agree
Speaker 2: with you, and it was a loving thing to do.
Speaker 2: But he didn't say I love you. It was get
Speaker 2: the f out of my house and don't come back
Speaker 2: to your sober He didn't tell him how much he
Speaker 2: loved him. All right, let's see what else you folks
Speaker 2: have to say on this. Oh okay, no don in
Speaker 2: Jolton the Sea.
Speaker 5: Hi, Dennis, how you doing.
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 5: I believe that this unconditional love has come as a
Speaker 5: misrepresentation of what my theology is, which is a reformed
Speaker 5: theology whereby my salvation was paid in full at the
Speaker 5: cross by Christ. But before my salvation and after my
Speaker 5: salvation is meritorious. In other words, the sins I've committed
Speaker 5: before I was saved, I would pay the just penalty
Speaker 5: for those sins now. As one of his elect, that is,
Speaker 5: He chose me before the foundation of the world. By
Speaker 5: the way, this is the same for Jews, where in
Speaker 5: Romans eleven it says not all Israel are of Israel,
Speaker 5: and he said, Jacob, I loved Esa, I hate it.
Speaker 5: This is all meeted out in Romans nine, whereby God
Speaker 5: has determined my eternal destiny at the cross. But before
Speaker 5: and after is a meritocracy. I'm going to receive a
Speaker 5: reward at the end of my life, and it's going
Speaker 5: to be based on what I did after I was
Speaker 5: saved at the cross.
Speaker 2: That what is the name of that theology that's fascinating.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's called reform theology. And I so then it's.
Speaker 2: A theology where works, in addition to belief save you.
Speaker 5: Yes, works after you say it gives evidence that I
Speaker 5: have been said.
Speaker 2: I think that's great. I wish I wish that were
Speaker 2: the universal teaching. If you don't behave properly, it means
Speaker 2: that you're you're not saved. You're not saved alone by
Speaker 2: works alone. That's it's obviously basic Christianity. But you're not
Speaker 2: saved without works. That's an important message.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we have overdone it with expressions of love for children.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I know it sounds cruel. It's not. It's
Speaker 2: actually quite loving. A staggering number of entitled young people
Speaker 2: are ruining this country, and they have since the Baby Boomers,
Speaker 2: since my generation. After all, who taught these kids to
Speaker 2: loathe everything beautiful, including beauty? It was the Baby Boomer generation,
Speaker 2: but they also got it from somebody. Oh right, let's
Speaker 2: see here. Patrick Mammoth, Springs, Arkansas.
Speaker 6: Hello, Hello, mister Prager. I love your show and I
Speaker 6: love how you bring clarity to these issues.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 6: First of all, let me say I agree completely with
Speaker 6: what the conclusion you've come to. I'm what's called an evangelical.
Speaker 6: I'm sure you know what that is, but I'm also
Speaker 6: a Reformed evangelical, which helps me, helps maybe helps you
Speaker 6: understand that I could see unconditional love very very narrowly,
Speaker 6: and not as though God loves everybody equally. The Reformed theology,
Speaker 6: as your previous caller said, qualifies that faith without works
Speaker 6: is dead, as it says in James to seventeen, and
Speaker 6: if a Christian doesn't recognize that the vast majority of
Speaker 6: people who call aim to know Christ or not living
Speaker 6: according to what the New Testament says they should be,
Speaker 6: then they're severely blinded.
Speaker 2: Good You wanted to call up about the Hebrew Word.
Speaker 6: Has said, Yes, I studied out the origins of how
Speaker 6: this could have happened in evangelical circles that unconditional love
Speaker 6: was bandied about as it was, and I came up
Speaker 6: with in the Old Testament translated goodness, mercy, numerous other
Speaker 6: loving kindness. The Word has said. And if you look
Speaker 6: at if you're trying to find how the apostles in
Speaker 6: the first century came up with this idea which we
Speaker 6: now call unconditional love, I think you can find it
Speaker 6: in the two hundred and forty seven times that have
Speaker 6: said is used.
Speaker 2: Well, that's interesting. I had never heard that, and of
Speaker 2: course I know biblical Hebrew well, and I've never heard
Speaker 2: it as unconditional. The most famous use of it might
Speaker 2: be what they call in Judaism, the thirteen attributes of God.
Speaker 2: Let me see, so it's let's see, okay, this is
Speaker 2: always a challenge. So God is el Rahum, a god
Speaker 2: of mercy, the hanun and kindness, or however hanun would
Speaker 2: be translated. Ralph has said, filled with hesseid your term
Speaker 2: the ammet and truth. So and then there there's more
Speaker 2: about God. So this is essential, but it's nowhere does
Speaker 2: it imply unconditional. So that's what I was aiming for
Speaker 2: and trying to review the verse. All right, anyway, I
Speaker 2: thank you. I do thank you for your call. Yep,
Speaker 2: Chicago and Rose, Hello Rose, I Donna.
Speaker 7: I was just going to say, I believe there has
Speaker 7: to be a balance that a child who has many
Speaker 7: rules and boundaries and does not feel that they are
Speaker 7: loved by their parents, it brings insecurity and rebellion. I
Speaker 7: believe love is extremely important that they know that that
Speaker 7: their mom and dad is going to love them no
Speaker 7: matter what. And I do believe the Bible teaches. I
Speaker 7: do agree with the reform theology. I believe that my
Speaker 7: Savior loves me unconditionally. My assurance is not in how
Speaker 7: good I am, but in the sacrifice that my Savior
Speaker 7: bore for me to take my sin upon himself. Also,
Speaker 7: I was going to say, God didn't give up at me.
Speaker 7: I went through a time of rebellion in my teen
Speaker 7: years and in college I was ashamed when a Christian
Speaker 7: came up to me and started talking to me about Jesus,
Speaker 7: and I was embarrassed. And in spite of all that,
Speaker 7: Jesus led me to himself and became my lord, the
Speaker 7: lord of my life and my savior, and my life
Speaker 7: changed that.
Speaker 4: What happened him.
Speaker 7: And I believe I had way more love after I
Speaker 7: became a Christian than a love that centered on peasing
Speaker 7: me making me happy.
Speaker 2: Right, So I have a question. Hold on, I'll pose
Speaker 2: a question when you return. So I have a question.
Speaker 2: Is our lady still here rose in Chicago? Thank you good?
Speaker 2: Did you have children or do you have children?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 7: I had four children.
Speaker 2: They're grown now, I would assume, so here I was
Speaker 2: just this is a curiosity question. So let me see.
Speaker 2: I wrote it down during the break. Did you convey
Speaker 2: the message to your children no matter what they did,
Speaker 2: no matter how awful they would ever be thought others,
Speaker 2: you would still love them.
Speaker 7: I never studied in those words, but I do believe
Speaker 7: my children knew that I would love them no matter
Speaker 7: what I would tell them sometimes when I had to
Speaker 7: discipline them, and I was pretty strict that I love
Speaker 7: you too, much to let you get away with this,
Speaker 7: and I don't think they ever doubt it, my love, So.
Speaker 2: It isn't it is. It's a tough question, and I'm
Speaker 2: not arguing with you at all, And you know I
Speaker 2: don't hesitate to argue if I have to, but I'm
Speaker 2: not arguing with you. So it's a very interesting moral
Speaker 2: question as well as anything else religious or pedagogic. I mean,
Speaker 2: what if one's not not yours or any more mine?
Speaker 2: Just in general, what if one's child commits a heinous
Speaker 2: act of rape and murder? Do we want them? Do
Speaker 2: we want them to think? I'm not asking would we
Speaker 2: still love them? Because parental love might be immutable, but
Speaker 2: do we want to convey to our children. I just
Speaker 2: want you to know, I mean, would we say it?
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what evil you commit, I will still
Speaker 2: love you. You would not have said that to your child, right.
Speaker 7: I don't think I would have said that, But I
Speaker 7: think by my actions that I would never give up
Speaker 7: on them repenting from a horrible wickedness, that I would
Speaker 7: never stop praying for them or loving them, even though
Speaker 7: my heart would grieve.
Speaker 2: Right, And I know that Yes, Okay, thank you? By
Speaker 2: the way, It's important to note that she said she
Speaker 2: was strict, So I think the combination of love and
Speaker 2: strictness is really, really terrific. But we now have generations
Speaker 2: of Americans raised with effusive love and minimal strictness, and
Speaker 2: the results are quite awful. And if there's an imbalance
Speaker 2: towards strictness over expressions of love, I think you will
Speaker 2: still produce a better human being than if there is
Speaker 2: an imbalance, And there is far more expressions of love
Speaker 2: than strictness. But it is interesting that I don't know
Speaker 2: any parent, even believers in unconditional love, who would say
Speaker 2: to their child, I just want you to know it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter what you do to hurt any other person,
Speaker 2: I will still love you. No parent would say that.
Speaker 2: But why not? If in fact unconditional love is an ideal?
Speaker 2: Why why wouldn't we say that That's what it means, right?
Speaker 2: Unconditional means there is no condition under which I would
Speaker 2: withdraw it. But you wouldn't say that to your child.
Speaker 2: Why not? And I don't know if God has said
Speaker 2: that to us. But anyway, this is not primarily about
Speaker 2: unconditional love. It is about the imbalance that generations now
Speaker 2: have had and the results can be seen at Harvard
Speaker 2: Yard of Spoiled Brats. I'll bet vast numbers of them
Speaker 2: were told by their parents how terrific they are and
Speaker 2: how much they love them a lot. That's that's my suspicion.
Speaker 1: This episode of Timeless Wisdom will continue right after this.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's see here de Plaine, Illinois and Ross. Hello, Ross, Hello, Dennis.
Speaker 2: Can you hear me? I hear you. It's a slight reverberation,
Speaker 2: but I hear you. Fine.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sorry here, I can just get off the
Speaker 3: bluetooth thing.
Speaker 2: Probably, Yeah, yep, I agree with you a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 4: Okay, I think I said I can't talk now.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's it. I hope it's not bad. Ed in Wheaton, Illinois, Hello, Dennis.
Speaker 8: It's always a pleasure to talk to you. My ninety
Speaker 8: plus year old mother had a what we could describe
Speaker 8: as a near death experience, I guess, following a surgery.
Speaker 8: She had this hours long conversation with God even though
Speaker 8: she was only under fort about forty minutes and one
Speaker 8: of the things.
Speaker 2: By the way, just for the record, That's how many
Speaker 2: of my classes felt. They felt hours long and they
Speaker 2: were only forty minutes. So I totally get it.
Speaker 8: Well, you know with God and ours Uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's very different with God. Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 8: There's a family member that had an abortion, and she
Speaker 8: shared a conversation she had with who she believed to
Speaker 8: be Jesus or God, and the love that he showed
Speaker 8: and said that he had for all of his children
Speaker 8: was something that I thought was pretty profound. I mean,
Speaker 8: we talked about the love of God, but to think
Speaker 8: that he can love somebody even though they've whatever, you know,
Speaker 8: murder someone and with a gun or with their hands
Speaker 8: or in this case, she decided to take this baby's life.
Speaker 8: So the love that God has, while the Bible doesn't
Speaker 8: talk about.
Speaker 2: Right so here is here is one of my challenges.
Speaker 2: And that is no one, not a parent, not a
Speaker 2: pastor no religious figure would announce the following I just
Speaker 2: want my congregation to know, or I just want you,
Speaker 2: my child to know that no matter what you do,
Speaker 2: how evil it is, I will still love you. No
Speaker 2: one says that about themselves or about God, so we
Speaker 2: know that the message would be counterproductive. Ex post facto. Well,
Speaker 2: you committed this act and I still love you, or
Speaker 2: you've committed this act of God. To love you is
Speaker 2: not the same as announcing it doesn't matter what you do,
Speaker 2: I will still love you. Pastors don't say that, and
Speaker 2: parents don't say that. Hi, everybody, Dennis Praeger here. I
Speaker 2: just shared some information with Sean about Tiglo Pilesser, and
Speaker 2: I didn't want to hide that from you, my dear listeners.
Speaker 2: I know somebody who appreciated that immensely. Ah, this is
Speaker 2: this is such an important subject. You know. It evolved
Speaker 2: not to evolved, but evolved into discussions on unconditional which
Speaker 2: is the way it works. There's an organic evolution in
Speaker 2: many hours of my program. But remember the the point
Speaker 2: that I open with for this Ultimate Issues hour is
Speaker 2: that effusive praise and love is dangerous if certainly if
Speaker 2: not accompanied by equal amounts of discipline, I mean equal
Speaker 2: Just for the record, we have really good ones here well, Orlando, Florida, mic.
Speaker 9: Hey, Denni's always a pleasure sore. Okay, So my dad
Speaker 9: told me that I had to give him back his
Speaker 9: keys to the house. I wasn't welcome there anymore. I
Speaker 9: didn't live there at the time, but it was because
Speaker 9: I almost got why out. I was like why because
Speaker 9: He's like, because you steal from most, we can't trust you.
Speaker 9: You lie to us all the time. You know you're
Speaker 9: not welcome here on supervised And so I went out
Speaker 9: and I'm a low bottom drunk addict and I hit bottoms.
Speaker 9: And today, man, they try to eliminate bottoms. Parents try
Speaker 9: to eliminate bottoms.
Speaker 2: That's a great line. That is a great line. Wow.
Speaker 9: And also one other thing is the self esteem thing
Speaker 9: is like people think they can give people self esteem,
Speaker 9: you have to earn it. You have to earn it
Speaker 9: over like thirty years now, in the last eleven twelve
Speaker 9: years of my dad's life, we had the greatest.
Speaker 2: Related I believe it. I believe it. That point on,
Speaker 2: they don't want us to hit bottom. That's a big
Speaker 2: reason for so many of those disgusting kids at Harvard Yard.
Speaker 2: And also a big reason. It is the primary reason,
Speaker 2: a primary, maybe not the for the neolistic leftism in
Speaker 2: gratitude of a generation. They were raised by parents who
Speaker 2: didn't want them to ever have any pain. This has
Speaker 2: been timeless wisdom.
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