Episode 63 - Allow Your Kids To Be Themselves

Get A Room Podcast

On this episode we get really fired up about allowing our kids to be themselves and choose their own path through life, and how allowing them to do that, isn’t about your own happiness, it’s about your child’s happiness.

Specific topic discussed in this episode:

• (1:30) Spoiler Alert: We preface this episode by talking about Schitt’s Creek and the episode where Patrick tells his parents he is gay.
• (5:00) We talk about parents being able to accept their children for who they are, whether or not they make the decisions they would make.
• (11:15) We don’t understand why some parents force their will on their kids, or put their happiness on the decisions kids make. That is a lot of pressure, and that shouldn’t be how it works.
• (17:15) As a parent we go from being a coach to a cheerleader.
• (19:50) It doesn’t hurt to love our kids for who they are.
• (22:00) We talk about Scott’s experience with quitting wrestling.
• (25:30) Every kid has their own roadmap and we should respect that.
• (30:30) We discuss what jobs the kids talk about having when they’re older and why we support them, even when they don’t seem like great jobs to us.
• (34:30) Scott couldn’t be a rock star because John Denver cheated on his wife. Rochelle can’t stop laughing about it.