Raising Teens Who Are Confident at Life
How much screen time is too much screen time for your kids or teens? How do you teach your kids basic social skills for things like making connections, finding a job or managing relationships? We will address all of these questions in this episode. with Kirt Manecke as my guest. Kirt is an award winning author and founder of Smile Online Course and Books, helping parents teach their kids social skills & career readiness for teen success.
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Transcript - Raising Teens Who Are Confident at Life
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How much screen time is too much screen time for your kids or teens?
How do you teach your kids basic social skills for things like making connections,
finding a job, or managing relationships?
We will address all of these questions in just a moment, so don't go anywhere.
Welcome to the Fatherhood Challenge, a movement to awaken and inspire fathers everywhere,
to take great pride in their role, and a challenge society to understand how important fathers are
to the stability and culture of their family's environment.
Now here's your host, Jonathan Guerrero.
Greetings everyone, thank you so much for joining me.
I'm excited to have Kurt Manecke with me.
Kurt is an award-winning author and founder of Smile Online Courses and Books, helping parents
teach their kids social skills, career readiness, 14 success.
Kurt, thank you so much for being on the Fatherhood Challenge.
You're welcome, Jonathan, thank you so much for having me.
Okay, here is my favorite part.
What is your favorite dad joke?
I love this dad joke.
What did the Buffalo say to his son on the first day of school by son?
I've always loved that one.
Yeah, I love it too.
I think I've heard this one maybe once before, but it's been so long.
It's still funny.
It is.
I remember it from like 20 years ago, so when you asked me to come up with something, I had
to remember.
I knew it was about a Buffalo, and then I thought, "Oh, that's right."
I was a bison, so I thought there was kind of cute.
Thank you for sharing that.
Oh, you're welcome.
Thank you.
Kurt, what is the story behind why you founded Smile Online Courses and Books?
That's a great question, Jonathan.
Years ago, when I got out of college, I was partners in a startup, especially retail business,
and it was very technical.
That was when Windsurfing was popular in line skates with roller blades.
Everything was technical.
And a lot of teenagers wanted to work at our store because they thought it was the cool
place to be.
What was a business?
And I had created a six-week training program to give the employees confidence, and they
had to go through that before they were allowed to interact with customers.
And it worked very well.
We had a very successful store because of these great teenagers.
They were very friendly, very knowledgeable.
But we'll fast forward years later.
I noticed a lot of companies.
As you probably do, too, weren't t
