Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux - 1363 Izzy Giggles!
Aired: 2009-05-23
Duration: 04:05


=== Parenting's Little Wonders (02:49) ===

[00:00:00]  You know what's really cool? She's actually figured out how to find her pacifier and how to pick it up, turn it, and put it in her own mouth.
[00:00:09]  Wow! That's cool!
[00:00:10]  Yeah, it's really cool. We just noticed this a couple of days ago because her binky was sort of by her side in her carib and we come back and it's in her mouth.
[00:00:17]  We're like, wait a second. Hey!
[00:00:22]  I'll tell you what parenting reminds me of.
[00:00:24]  There's a scene in Jurassic Park where the Australian-sounding guy, who's the hunter, turns around.
[00:00:32]  At one point, he's being stalked by a dinosaur, and then they end up encircling him or something, right?
[00:00:36]  And he turns in and is like, clever girl, right?
[00:00:39]  Then he gets eaten. Yeah.
[00:00:41]  Well, that's what parenting is like.
[00:00:42]  Clever girl. No eating yet.
[00:00:44]  But that's all I'm doing is like, ooh, clever girl.
[00:00:46]  Now I feel alarmed. Right.
[00:00:50]  Gotcha. You tell me when Daddy has to stop swearing.
[00:00:53]  Constantly checking your wallet pocket, are you?
[00:00:56]  Right, right. I guess it's very naughty.
[00:01:00]  Isn't it very naughty and up late?
[00:01:03]  Oh, very naughty and up late.
[00:01:06]  She really giggles hard to the point where she actually shrieks with laughter now sometimes, which is just fantastic.
[00:01:14]  Oh, it's too much fun.
[00:01:17]  She likes it when I jump.
[00:01:19]  Right? So I sort of jump up like a frog, make a big face and then come down again.
[00:01:22]  And literally sometimes she will laugh so hard she can't breathe.
[00:01:26]  And then I stop.
[00:01:27]  Because, you know, good parenting is important.
[00:01:29]  Breathing is the number one part of parenting that I want to make sure I'm maintaining.
[00:01:33]  Right. Right.
[00:01:37]  Made my baby laugh so hard that she has brain damage now.
[00:01:41]  Right. But boy, those last few minutes were worth it, I'm sure.
[00:01:44]  Right. Right.
[00:01:49]  Well, that's cool.
[00:01:49]  I just think that's really cool.
[00:01:51]  Oh, she just eekled a little.
[00:01:57]  She's not quite ticklish yet, though.
[00:02:01]  She's getting there. She's not quite old enough to be ticklish yet.
[00:02:05]  That comes in about a couple of weeks.
[00:02:07]  But yeah, she's in her sixth month.
[00:02:09]  That is just amazing.
[00:02:14]  Oh, can you hear that?
[00:02:15]  That's cool.
[00:02:17]  Oh, can you hear can you hear that?
[00:02:47]  Can you hear that?

=== Off With His Giant Melon Head (01:16) ===

[00:02:49]  That's awesome.
[00:02:50]  Yeah.
[00:02:57]  Yeah.
[00:03:06]  That little yelp at the end is cute.
[00:03:10]  Isn't that great?
[00:03:11]  That just makes my day.
[00:03:12]  And then as soon as she laughs, and then if you keep doing the same thing, she's like no longer amused.
[00:03:24]  She's like the Queen Victoria, you know?
[00:03:26]  I am not amused. Off with this head.
[00:03:29]  Off with his giant melon head.
[00:03:30]  Yeah.
[00:03:42]  Yeah.
[00:03:49]  That's awesome.
[00:03:54]  Isn't that great?
[00:04:04]  I get a couple of those a day.