Oct. 29, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
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| And it's really troubling to observe. | |
| Boy, is that true. | |
| I hate to put this to you, but I will, nevertheless. | |
| And it's only meant for good, obviously. | |
| But if you had to do the raising of them over again, what would you change, if anything? | |
| Well, that's a really good question. | |
| I don't think I would change much, frankly. | |
| The old days, without the internet, without the phones, we weren't afforded the self-indulgent luxuries that the modern child has. | |
| We just didn't have options. | |
| And kids today have options, so I probably wouldn't have changed anything. | |
| You and I have chatted about my daughter that graduated from KU, and you admonished me for sending her to college four or five years ago. | |
| And I think my comeback to you is until Medtronic hires a salesperson without a college degree, what is one to do? | |
| Right, right, right, right. | |
| That's a good discussion, and I thank you for the call. | |
| By the way, I used cuddled. | |
| It should be cuddled, I think. | |
| The word is cuddled. | |
| That's what I meant earlier. | |
| Sean, could you put down... | |
| I want to actually have a subject for an hour. | |
| If you could raise your kids over, what would you change? | |
| I think that would be a very compelling topic. | |
| It doesn't have to be... | |
| A happiness hour or even an ultimate issues hour, but I'd like to do it. | |
| And so all of you should think about it in preparation for that show. | |
| Okay, all, and Monica, Sandy, Oregon. | |
| Hi, Dennis. | |
| Thank you so much. | |
| I'm grateful to you for all you are and all you do. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Oh, you are so welcome. | |
| Okay, a couple things. | |
| I totally agree with what the gentleman said in the prior call. | |
| I don't have fear for myself, necessarily, nor my husband, because we're both not really fearful people, but my anxiety and fears go with my child. | |
| Again, in our current day in society, it's hard to avoid that. | |
| I do think, because she was my only child, she had some medical issues when she was younger, so that led me on this kind of probably over-coddling quality. | |
| The other issue, however, is that when I was young, my parents, like you had mentioned about your parents earlier, were rather unfazed about where we were, what we did, all six of my... | |
| Five of my siblings and I talk about that frequently, that we lived in a very free way. | |
| And so we kind of grew up that way. | |
| I grew up with, of course, my own set of irrational, irrational fears here and there. | |
| But when I was in high school, I was on a bus going from or to my high school, which was kind of down in what you would consider the ghetto of St. Paul, Minnesota. | |
| And I remember sitting there passing a billboard, a big billboard that said, I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees. | |
| It's fascinating that you remember that, that it made such an impression on you. | |
| Like a punch into the chest. | |
| Yes, for good reason. | |
| It is a great line. | |
| I'm familiar with it. | |
| I don't know who came up with it, but it is great. | |
| So here's another insight based on this call. | |
| You know, whenever I get calls from Sandy, Oregon, some things just come to my mind. | |
| I wonder how many of you noted that Monica has one child and that this daughter had medical conditions, so she has a lot of fears and coddled the child as a result. | |
| She said that. | |
| Whereas she grew up with five siblings, I think that's correct. | |
| Maybe that's another factor in the coddling. | |
| of young Americans because you can't cuddle six kids. | |
| You can one or two. |
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