Latest / Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families / #1158 - The Upside of Adversity: Children Learn Resilience From Coping With Difficulties
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- 0:05Speaker 1: I am known for making provocative statements. Today, my provocative
- 0:08Speaker 1: statement starts the podcast your kids should do at least
- 0:11Speaker 1: one thing per week that poses enough risk that they
- 0:14Speaker 1: could end up in the hospital or in the doctor's surgery. Hello,
- 0:19Speaker 1: Welcome to the Happy Families podcast, Real Parenting Solutions every
- 0:23Speaker 1: day on Australia's most downloaded parenting podcast. We are Justin
- 0:26Speaker 1: and Kylie Coulson.
- 0:27Speaker 2: So I'm struggling with this. You did say you were
- 0:30Speaker 2: being provocative.
- 0:31Speaker 1: Of course I am.
- 0:32Speaker 3: But do you really believe this?
- 0:35Speaker 1: Yes? I do, and I'll tell you why. Because our
- 0:37Speaker 1: children need to take risks, they need to experience adversity.
- 0:40Speaker 1: This is how they become resilient. Where we're getting so
- 0:43Speaker 1: many inquiries from schools and from organizations who want to
- 0:46Speaker 1: hire me to speak this year, and everyone's saying parents
- 0:50Speaker 1: are worried about their kids and their resilience. Parents are
- 0:52Speaker 1: worried about their anxious kids. Kids don't want to take risks,
- 0:55Speaker 1: kids don't want to leave the house. We've got to
- 0:57Speaker 1: get our kids out of the house in engaging with life,
- 1:00Speaker 1: and I think that one of the best ways to
- 1:03Speaker 1: do that is to encounter physical challenges. Because when you
- 1:07Speaker 1: encounter those physical challenges, you learn where the boundaries are,
- 1:13Speaker 1: You learn them in really healthy, positive ways, and you
- 1:15Speaker 1: also become resilient because you discover that you can overcome
- 1:18Speaker 1: hard things. I just I really really think that our
- 1:22Speaker 1: kids have got to be doing hard things, especially hard
- 1:24Speaker 1: physical things. They tend to do them socially anyway with
- 1:26Speaker 1: other people. There is research that shows as we increase
- 1:29Speaker 1: risky play in our children's lives, they are more resilient.
- 1:33Speaker 1: They are more socially adept, they tend to do better academically,
- 1:36Speaker 1: they are more resilient.
- 1:39Speaker 2: During the holidays, your parents had a couple of the
- 1:42Speaker 2: grandkids for a few days.
- 1:44Speaker 1: It was so nice.
- 1:45Speaker 2: This was our young Emily's first solo trip. Yes home,
- 1:52Speaker 2: it's a really really big deal.
- 1:54Speaker 1: That is a big deal. In fact, that ties in
- 1:55Speaker 1: with exactly what we're talking about.
- 1:56Speaker 2: It's a huge deal.
- 1:57Speaker 1: I hadn't thought of.
- 1:58Speaker 2: That huge deal. And everything was going great. Emily was
- 2:03Speaker 2: having an absolute.
- 2:04Speaker 1: Blasting away for like three or four days.
- 2:06Speaker 2: I get a message from your mum. It says, note
- 2:08Speaker 2: to self. Ice skating is a hard contact sport. Took
- 2:13Speaker 2: Emily and Emma to the doctors as they were both
- 2:16Speaker 2: so bruised this morning. I was worried they had breaks.
- 2:19Speaker 3: But it's all good, thank goodness.
- 2:21Speaker 2: And she's got a picture of the doctor's surgery.
- 2:23Speaker 1: Right.
- 2:24Speaker 2: I was like, she's not doing me any favors.
- 2:26Speaker 1: Here, not doing herself any face.
- 2:27Speaker 3: No, not at all.
- 2:29Speaker 2: But here's this thing. We hear it time and time again.
- 2:33Speaker 2: Schools have banned climbing trees.
- 2:36Speaker 1: Well, you're not allowed to play brandings anymore either, because
- 2:39Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's probably not a good example.
- 2:43Speaker 2: How many schools don't have monkey bars anymore, it don't exist.
- 2:48Speaker 2: There are literally schools where there's no playgrounds.
- 2:52Speaker 1: So you know what my reaction was when that text
- 2:54Speaker 1: came through from mum. What was I was like, that's awesome,
- 2:58Speaker 1: that is so awesome. She went ice skating, Like if
- 3:02Speaker 1: you haven't been, I mean, we don't ice skate. When
- 3:05Speaker 1: on an ice skating family, you're actually reasonable on the
- 3:07Speaker 1: ice when we've done it maybe twice in twenty seven
- 3:09Speaker 1: years because you used to roll a skate or something
- 3:11Speaker 1: like that. But I'm not good on the ice and
- 3:14Speaker 1: when you fall over, it hurts more than landing on concrete.
- 3:17Speaker 1: I mean, it is just so painful.
- 3:20Speaker 2: But here's the crazy thing. Your kids fall over and
- 3:23Speaker 2: what did they do?
- 3:24Speaker 1: They sometimes they cry and sometimes they break a wrist,
- 3:27Speaker 1: but they usually get up and they keep on going.
- 3:29Speaker 1: They want to master it, they want to learn how
- 3:31Speaker 1: to do it. They're naturally usually resilient.
- 3:34Speaker 2: I remember the first time I got on a pair
- 3:36Speaker 2: of roller skates. They were like two sizes too big
- 3:38Speaker 2: for me. My cousin had got them for Christmas. They
- 3:41Speaker 2: lived on a property where the house was at the
- 3:43Speaker 2: top of the driveway, so in order to go anywhere
- 3:47Speaker 2: you had to go down a really steep driveway to
- 3:51Speaker 2: get to the road.
- 3:52Speaker 3: That's how I learned to roll a skates.
- 3:54Speaker 2: I fell over how many times I actually am, so
- 4:00Speaker 2: I have no idea how I survived it.
- 4:02Speaker 1: So we've got our kids involved in bouldering, which is
- 4:06Speaker 1: sort of rock climbing but without a harness. Indoor rock climbing,
- 4:09Speaker 1: and you land on crash pads, but nevertheless, sometimes there
- 4:12Speaker 1: are maybe three meters they get pretty high on those
- 4:15Speaker 1: bouldering walls. We've got Emily surfing. One of our kids
- 4:19Speaker 1: is into horseback riding. That's the whole reason that they
- 4:21Speaker 1: were on the central coast of my parents. Anyway, we've
- 4:23Speaker 1: got kids who love to skateboard, bike riding, climbing a tree.
- 4:28Speaker 1: This is what I mean when I say our kids
- 4:29Speaker 1: should do at least one thing per week where they
- 4:32Speaker 1: could end up in hospital or could end up at
- 4:34Speaker 1: the doctor's surgery, because when they start to do these things,
- 4:38Speaker 1: this is what they learn. They learn to be resilient.
- 4:42Speaker 1: What happens with so many parents is we look at
- 4:45Speaker 1: any kind of adversity, whether it's physical adversity, which is
- 4:48Speaker 1: what we're talking about here, or emotional adversity, or psychological adversity,
- 4:52Speaker 1: or cognitive adversity, or social adversity or emotional adversity. In
- 4:56Speaker 1: other words, any hardship, any trial, any thing that could
- 4:59Speaker 1: be a setback. Too many parents sort of the helicopter parent, right,
- 5:03Speaker 1: This is the thing. This is why I predicted that
- 5:04Speaker 1: lighthouse parenting needs to come in twenty twenty five, because
- 5:07Speaker 1: it's such a such an improvement on the helicopter thing.
- 5:09Speaker 1: When we treat all adversity as inherently negative, we do
- 5:13Speaker 1: this tremendous disservice to our children and their ability to
- 5:19Speaker 1: develop adaptive coping mechanisms that are going to help them
- 5:22Speaker 1: in the future. When they experienced adversity again.
- 5:26Speaker 2: When Chanell, our eldest was born and she started crawling
- 5:31Speaker 2: very early on in the piece, I was blown away
- 5:34Speaker 2: with how many times people would come into our home
- 5:37Speaker 2: and they would be absolutely on edge because we had stairs,
- 5:41Speaker 2: and she used to love climbing the couch and I
- 5:44Speaker 2: would let her and they would be like, she's got
- 5:47Speaker 2: to fall, She's got a fall, and we said, yeah,
- 5:48Speaker 2: but if she falls, she'll work it out. And obviously
- 5:51Speaker 2: I wasn't wanting her to hurt herself, and we had
- 5:54Speaker 2: put safety parameters in place to ensure that if she
- 5:57Speaker 2: did fall, you know, like I would put she.
- 5:59Speaker 1: Wasn't falling into a pool or falling three meters onto
- 6:02Speaker 1: I put the cushion crocodiles and razor blades.
- 6:04Speaker 2: I put the couch cushions on the floor so that
- 6:07Speaker 2: she was climbing onto a hard base and if she fell,
- 6:09Speaker 2: she was falling onto a soft cushion.
- 6:11Speaker 1: In other words, it's a developmentally appropriate challenge and the
- 6:13Speaker 1: risk is also developmentally appropriate.
- 6:15Speaker 2: It's about scaffolding. And when she started wanting to climb
- 6:20Speaker 2: the stairs, I taught her how to use the stairs,
- 6:22Speaker 2: how to be able to slide down backwards, so that
- 6:24Speaker 2: her feet went first, not her face, and she worked
- 6:27Speaker 2: it out with the couch. She literally fell off the
- 6:30Speaker 2: couch once and she went, oh, I don't like that,
- 6:33Speaker 2: and that was it. So between the two of us,
- 6:35Speaker 2: I showed her what she needed to do to do
- 6:37Speaker 2: it the right way, and she never did it again.
- 6:39Speaker 1: Obviously, some kids are quicker learners than others. I know
- 6:42Speaker 1: a friend of mine when I was a kid, who
- 6:45Speaker 1: rode his bicycle off a balcony, a second floor balcony,
- 6:48Speaker 1: because he just thought that the first time when it
- 6:51Speaker 1: didn't work, he did it wrong, so we should try again.
- 6:54Speaker 1: But for the most part, most part, kids learn pretty well.
- 6:58Speaker 1: After the break, we're going to talk about what Stanford
- 7:00Speaker 1: University research tells us about how we approach threat and
- 7:03Speaker 1: adversity and challenge and what it can teach our children.
- 7:07Speaker 1: Plus seven action steps for you as a parent to
- 7:11Speaker 1: become more comfortable and help your kids become more comfortable.
- 7:14Speaker 1: We're doing at least one thing per week that could
- 7:16Speaker 1: lend you or them or everyone in hospital. Stanford University
- 7:26Speaker 1: is where Carol Dweck, the professor who has done all
- 7:30Speaker 1: the growth mindset research, is based and it's become a
- 7:34Speaker 1: growth mindset hub. Some recent research from Stanford looking at
- 7:38Speaker 1: parental mindset shows this when children experience a challenge, when
- 7:45Speaker 1: they experience something that could be painful, a physical adversity,
- 7:49Speaker 1: when they experience a setback or a trial or something hard,
- 7:54Speaker 1: if the parent's response to the child's adversity is I
- 7:59Speaker 1: need to protect you from that. John Hate in his
- 8:01Speaker 1: book The Coddling of the American Mind calls this safetyism.
- 8:04Speaker 1: I need to protect my child as much as possible,
- 8:07Speaker 1: rather than as much as it's necessary. Our children then
- 8:12Speaker 1: adopt the same mindset. I need to be afraid. This
- 8:15Speaker 1: is bad. Fearfulness and anxiety would be the appropriate response
- 8:21Speaker 1: to this situation. Again, and it doesn't matter whether it's
- 8:23Speaker 1: social with a friend situation or physical like we've been
- 8:28Speaker 1: talking about for much of this podcast, or academic because
- 8:30Speaker 1: they might fail to test. Whatever it is. When parents
- 8:33Speaker 1: see failures and setbacks and challenges and adversities as a
- 8:36Speaker 1: problem to be avoided, children adopt the same mindset. Unsurprisingly,
- 8:41Speaker 1: when parents see adversity and challenge and difficulty and falling
- 8:45Speaker 1: over on the ice and spraining your wrist or ending
- 8:48Speaker 1: up with a whole lot of bruises as an opportunity
- 8:51Speaker 1: for growth. The kids love it. They adopt the same approach,
- 8:56Speaker 1: the same mindset to the challenges that they face.
- 9:00Speaker 2: There was a trend last year on socials where parents
- 9:04Speaker 2: holding a baby would pretend to walk into a wall
- 9:08Speaker 2: and you'd hear them slap.
- 9:10Speaker 3: The wall with their hand.
- 9:11Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
- 9:12Speaker 2: Depending on how the parent reacted to that depended on
- 9:16Speaker 2: whether or not the baby cried or was oblivious. I
- 9:20Speaker 2: missed that to the slap and the times when the
- 9:24Speaker 2: parents were like, oh, instant babies, baby.
- 9:27Speaker 1: Looks to the parents for the cue. That's right, be
- 9:29Speaker 1: afraid of this.
- 9:30Speaker 2: Our babies literally from the time they're born, they're looking
- 9:33Speaker 2: to us for facial cues.
- 9:36Speaker 1: That makes me think of Jared and Chanell and Indy.
- 9:39Speaker 1: For those of you who knew to the pod, Chanelle's
- 9:40Speaker 1: our eldest daughter. She and her husband have an eighteen
- 9:43Speaker 1: month old baby. Now I can't believe that we're grandparents
- 9:45Speaker 1: have been eighteen month old. But they've just got a
- 9:48Speaker 1: constant smile on their face. And whenever Indy does something,
- 9:50Speaker 1: even if she hurts herself, they just find it hilarious,
- 9:52Speaker 1: not in a cruel, nasty way, but rather they just go, oh, whoops,
- 9:56Speaker 1: and they laugh about it, and then they give her
- 9:58Speaker 1: an opportunity to do it again straight away. It's magic
- 10:01Speaker 1: to watch as I think about it. That's what I
- 10:04Speaker 1: do in the surf with Emily, with our eleven year
- 10:06Speaker 1: old almost eleven year old, when she falls off a wave,
- 10:09Speaker 1: when she knows dives, when she gets hit by something
- 10:11Speaker 1: that was a bit bigger and harder than she was expecting,
- 10:14Speaker 1: I just crack up. I'm like, I can't believe your
- 10:16Speaker 1: hand on that. And she's taking those cues, and she's
- 10:19Speaker 1: more confident now in the water and more excited about
- 10:22Speaker 1: surfing because she's realizing it's not as scary as I thought.
- 10:27Speaker 1: In fact, even as I think about this. When I
- 10:31Speaker 1: was still a university lecturer and decided that I wanted
- 10:34Speaker 1: to start happy families, I went to my parents, you
- 10:38Speaker 1: remember this, And I said to them, I'm about to
- 10:40Speaker 1: leave the safety and security of an academic role and
- 10:46Speaker 1: start a business. I know nothing about it. I don't
- 10:48Speaker 1: know how to do any of this, and I'm pretty nervous.
- 10:52Speaker 1: And my parents, their faces, their demeanor, their attitude was,
- 10:56Speaker 1: this is so exciting for you, how wonderful behind you
- 11:01Speaker 1: go for it.
- 11:02Speaker 3: We had a mortgage.
- 11:03Speaker 1: We had five kids at the time.
- 11:06Speaker 2: This was a really big leap of faith on our part.
- 11:09Speaker 1: And they said you've got this, and they said we're
- 11:12Speaker 1: here for you.
- 11:12Speaker 3: I will catch you if you fall.
- 11:14Speaker 1: Yeah. I literally said them, can we live in your
- 11:16Speaker 1: garage if this goes south?
- 11:18Speaker 3: They did say no to that.
- 11:19Speaker 1: They said no, They did live in the house instead.
- 11:22Speaker 1: But it was that support that made me feel like
- 11:25Speaker 1: I was resilient enough to go and do it.
- 11:28Speaker 2: It was, well, it gave you the courage to jump,
- 11:30Speaker 2: because I don't think you would have without that.
- 11:31Speaker 1: Yeah. And I wasn't saying I need you to give
- 11:33Speaker 1: me money, I want you to support me as I
- 11:35Speaker 1: do this startup. Rather, it was if this fails, can
- 11:39Speaker 1: you be the safety net? And they didn't hesitate. So
- 11:43Speaker 1: what are the action steps if you want your children
- 11:45Speaker 1: to do something risky, if you want your children to
- 11:47Speaker 1: learn resilience, if you want them to do hard things
- 11:50Speaker 1: because you know that it will equip them to do
- 11:52Speaker 1: harder things in the future and therefore be stronger and
- 11:54Speaker 1: more capable. We have seven action steps to help you.
- 11:58Speaker 2: So Number one, we've got to look for ways to
- 12:02Speaker 2: enable our kids to see failures as an opportunity for growth.
- 12:07Speaker 1: So let me get really practical about this. This is
- 12:09Speaker 1: when they fail and you say, well, that must hurt.
- 12:11Speaker 1: So we let them know that we're they're supporting them,
- 12:13Speaker 1: and we say, if you were to do it again,
- 12:15Speaker 1: how would you do it differently? Notice that you fell
- 12:17Speaker 1: over on the ice, Notice that you hurt your wrist.
- 12:20Speaker 1: What other ways can we help you to get better
- 12:22Speaker 1: at ice skating? As the metaphor, and it might be
- 12:24Speaker 1: that we use one of those you know, those penguins.
- 12:27Speaker 1: Penguins the walkers that go in front or they hold
- 12:30Speaker 1: the wall, we hold their hands.
- 12:31Speaker 3: Real they need to make adult versions of those. I
- 12:33Speaker 3: just use it one.
- 12:34Speaker 1: I just used the kid one last time, I know.
- 12:36Speaker 1: So that's the first one. You frame that failure or
- 12:40Speaker 1: that adversity of that challenge as an opportunity for growth, and.
- 12:43Speaker 2: That builds beautifully on the second one. Because of what
- 12:45Speaker 2: you did, you're creating a supportive environment in which your
- 12:49Speaker 2: kids can work through the tricky emotions that come with failure.
- 12:52Speaker 1: Yeah, which is what my parents did as well. They're
- 12:55Speaker 1: just so beautifully I love reflecting on that story.
- 12:58Speaker 2: Number three, allowing our children to experience appropriate levels of challenge.
- 13:04Speaker 2: If we go back to the story that we shared
- 13:05Speaker 2: earlier with Chanelle as a young baby, as she started
- 13:09Speaker 2: to crawl and started to move around, one to explore
- 13:12Speaker 2: taking the cushions of the couch and putting them on
- 13:14Speaker 2: the floor so if she fell off it wasn't going
- 13:16Speaker 2: to be such a big shock to her. Teaching her
- 13:19Speaker 2: to climb down the stairs backwards. All of those things
- 13:23Speaker 2: were providing an opportunity for her to have appropriate levels
- 13:27Speaker 2: of risk.
- 13:27Speaker 1: And that's a critical thing developmentally appropriate. So going to
- 13:30Speaker 1: school is a developmentally appropriate thing. Doing exams is a
- 13:33Speaker 1: developmentally appropriate thing. Going bouldering as a two year old
- 13:37Speaker 1: or going surfing as a three year old probably not
- 13:40Speaker 1: developmentally appropriate, But by the time the kids are seven
- 13:43Speaker 1: or nine or eleven much more developmentally appropriate. We've just
- 13:46Speaker 1: got to make sure that the setting is right. Too
- 13:48Speaker 1: much too sooner, and it can really crush their confidence
- 13:50Speaker 1: and make them more afraid.
- 13:53Speaker 2: Number four is really about developing a village, utilizing what's
- 13:58Speaker 2: in your village to help you children take appropriate risks.
- 14:02Speaker 2: If your child wants to do bouldering and you don't
- 14:04Speaker 2: know anything about it, then find somebody else who does
- 14:08Speaker 2: and allow them to work through that and help to
- 14:11Speaker 2: educate both of you so that they can take risks
- 14:14Speaker 2: that you feel comfortable with.
- 14:15Speaker 1: Yeah, Or if you go back to an academic setting
- 14:17Speaker 1: and you've got a child in your five who doesn't
- 14:19Speaker 1: understand maths and you don't understand your five maths either,
- 14:21Speaker 1: which is most of us, Let's be honest, go and
- 14:23Speaker 1: get a math tutor, or hire a year eight kid
- 14:27Speaker 1: who's happy to work for fifteen bucks an hour to
- 14:29Speaker 1: do the tutoring. If you can't afford a full price
- 14:32Speaker 1: math tutor, find somebody who can be that external support,
- 14:34Speaker 1: because it's not going to be you, because you're not
- 14:37Speaker 1: feeling competent either.
- 14:38Speaker 2: And I think the great thing about this one is
- 14:40Speaker 2: just acknowledging that we're not saying that your kids have
- 14:42Speaker 2: to suffer ongoingly. It's important for our kids to recognize
- 14:46Speaker 2: failure as an opportunity for growth. But if we allow
- 14:49Speaker 2: them to stay in that place for too long, they
- 14:51Speaker 2: get discouraged and they're less likely to move on.
- 14:54Speaker 1: Okay, The fifth thing is that we need to recognize
- 14:56Speaker 1: the difference between harmful trauma and beneficial stress. All stresses problematic.
- 15:01Speaker 1: Something that I've been talking about in my seminars for
- 15:03Speaker 1: years is in Biosphere too. This was a science experiment
- 15:06Speaker 1: where an entire habitat was built under a dome to
- 15:10Speaker 1: do science basically in case of space exploration. The trees
- 15:13Speaker 1: who were planted under this dome in Biosphere two shot
- 15:15Speaker 1: up really tall, really fast, and they looked like they
- 15:17Speaker 1: were better trees than nature ever provides. They were just pure, perfect,
- 15:21Speaker 1: lovely tall pines or whatever it was. But all of
- 15:23Speaker 1: a sudden they started falling over. And the reason they
- 15:25Speaker 1: fell over is because they hadn't dug down deep roots
- 15:27Speaker 1: and they hadn't created what's called stress would because they
- 15:30Speaker 1: didn't have any wind. In Biosphere too, it was a
- 15:32Speaker 1: completely still environment. There was no wind because there was
- 15:35Speaker 1: this great big dome preventing the wind from getting in.
- 15:38Speaker 1: Beneficial stress is the wind. Beneficial stress is the rain.
- 15:42Speaker 1: Beneficial stress is the stuff that happens in our lives
- 15:44Speaker 1: normally half of trauma, that stuff like abuse, that stuff
- 15:48Speaker 1: like neglect, that stuff like alcoholism and drug use in
- 15:51Speaker 1: the home, it's being exposed to explicit content. It's the
- 15:55Speaker 1: kinds of things that kids are not that are just
- 15:57Speaker 1: not kid friendly and not appropriate for kids. Bosed to bullying,
- 16:01Speaker 1: and being a victim of bullying. If we can help
- 16:03Speaker 1: our children to understand the difference. We're not going to
- 16:05Speaker 1: say tough enough, princess, when they're experiencing something that is
- 16:08Speaker 1: genuinely traumatic. Instead, we're going to give them support that
- 16:11Speaker 1: they need. If they're experiencing beneficial stress, we're still not
- 16:14Speaker 1: going to say tough enough, princess, but we might say
- 16:17Speaker 1: this is really tough, let's figure out a way through it,
- 16:19Speaker 1: because I think you're strong enough to try this again.
- 16:22Speaker 1: Get back out on the eyes, let's go. Number six,
- 16:25Speaker 1: we want to foster positive coping mechanisms when our children
- 16:28Speaker 1: are going through challenges that are appropriate. In other words,
- 16:31Speaker 1: this is about sitting down with the kids and saying,
- 16:34Speaker 1: when you're under this stress or when this thing goes wrong,
- 16:37Speaker 1: let's find some solutions for you. Sometimes you do it
- 16:39Speaker 1: in the moment. Often you'll do it the next day
- 16:41Speaker 1: or even the day after, when the kids have had
- 16:43Speaker 1: time to process it and they're not feeling defensive about it.
- 16:46Speaker 1: And number seven, the last one is that we need
- 16:48Speaker 1: to just make it say for our kids to have
- 16:50Speaker 1: those difficult processing moments with us or with their significant
- 16:54Speaker 1: mentor or teacher, whoever, it is. That's kind of been
- 16:57Speaker 1: implicit through everything we've talked about, So I won't the
- 17:00Speaker 1: point our kids need to be doing hard things even
- 17:03Speaker 1: if it could land them in hospital.
- 17:05Speaker 2: Well, I'm hopeful that no one's going to end up
- 17:07Speaker 2: in hospital today.
- 17:08Speaker 1: I'm not encouraging hospital visits. I just I feel like
- 17:11Speaker 1: I need to put a big caveat a big neon lights.
- 17:13Speaker 1: The reality is life is dangerous.
- 17:17Speaker 2: But I hope your kids get to climb a tree today.
- 17:19Speaker 1: Or ride a horse, or go surfing or a right skateboard,
- 17:22Speaker 1: or just do something up and sit on the carpet
- 17:23Speaker 1: and play a video game. That's really what we're getting at.
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