Self Parenting with Personality Types | Podcast 545

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  • Cassie
  • July 24, 2024 at 9:40 am

  This is the most practical and detailed advice I’ve heard on parenting and self-parenting. You honestly clarified so much for me in this episode.

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  • Anne Baker
  • July 17, 2024 at 9:37 pm

  As always, I really love your content and delivery. Coincidentally, I have been thinking a lot about the parenting topic (re-parenting myself while parenting my 18 and 20 year old kiddos). I really appreciate getting better language around this whole process. So much has triggered me while parenting and I guess it’s due to unresolved material from my own childhood.
  I do want to push back a bit on commentary from Joel regarding the politician who wants the government to step in and ban something (tik tok maybe?) and Joel calling him stupid. While I agree that it is not the government’s role to parent our children, sometimes it is necessary to have the power of the government to help in situations that involve addiction. Social media apps are designed to be addictive and kids are powerless to control the effects the apps have on them. It’s too easy to say that parents should just take away the devices because an addicted kid might go to great lengths to sneak/hide/gain access to devices, creating a power struggle that no parent could have imagined. A couple of other examples of government intervention come to mind. One, government banning smoking in restaurants has certainly curbed the addictive use of cigarettes. Although at first I was very against telling a restaurant owner that they couldn’t allow smoking, it has been a benefit to everyone. Another example is when Pres. Reagan deregulated advertising to children. That has had tremendous ill-effects that we are still reeling with today. So when it comes to both addictive things (social media, video games, alcohol, cigarettes, etc.) and to our children (many of whom do not have well-equipped parents to protect/prepare/promote), sometimes the government can be a solution/safe-guard. Just some thoughts :)
  Keep up the great work!
  Your friend in KY, Anne (ISFJ)

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  • Julita
  • July 17, 2024 at 6:44 am

  Antonia and Joel, your message struck a chord with me. It was simple yet profoundly true about life in every sentence. Perhaps this is the exact moment in my life when I needed to hear it, echoing the old wisdom: “When the student is ready, the master will appear.”
  I’ve been a listener of your podcast for years, but this is the first time I’ve reached out. It’s not because I haven’t enjoyed your content or because of laziness. Rather, I hadn’t felt ready to share my thoughts until now.
  Let me share a bit about myself: I’m in my fifties, a mother of two adult children. I became so immersed in my “little immortality project” ast Mark Manson aptly calls parenting, that I neglected my own growth. Despite being seen as responsible and capable, I often felt like a child myself, constantly seeking guidance from others and giving away my resources freely, like an apprentice.
  Only recently have I begun to reclaim my life. Freed from the day-to-day responsibilities of parenting, I’ve been able to focus on myself and reshape my perspective on self-worth. Your podcast has been instrumental in this journey. Listening to the podcast today, it struck me that the feeling of being like a child hasn’t been with me for some time. Should it return, I now see it as a natural part of growing up, even at my age.
  I deeply appreciate your dedication to continuing this mission. You’ve been a vital part of my path toward rediscovering myself and embracing adulthood in its truest sense.