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The challenges of this whole crazy world
16 Plays20 days ago
How do you navigate it??
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Are Kids Today Less Grateful?
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Baker Plbg
Okay, it's certainly been my observation over the last decade, I would say, and that the kids, this is going to be the old man take, the kids of today are just not as grateful as they, as I think they ought to be. Does it get any old any more old man than that?
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Baker Plbg
They actually did a study, C.S. Montt Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan, found that four out of five parents feel, which is 81%, um say that their kids are today are not as grateful, or not grateful for what they had. And that's out of basically 1,100 parents.
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Baker Plbg
don't know if that's groups of parents or you know whatever.
Parenting Strategies at Baker Ranch
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Baker Plbg
um And I've certainly had those conversations with my own children. we tried really hard here at the old Baker Ranch. I've been here for 24 years now.
00:00:57
Baker Plbg
um It's one of the best benefits of this place is there's just a laundry list of jobs to do. And Frankly, I could make up anything at any time for them to do. So they were always anxiously engaged in good causes.
00:01:13
Baker Plbg
I think in retrospect, maybe my only, my big, not my only, but my biggest sort of flaw if you will, um, our mistake is I, I didn't say no very often to my girls.
00:01:31
Baker Plbg
Certainly gave, I certainly gave it to the boys like nobody's business, but, um, I thought I was, you know, just ah how things have sort of spun out.
00:01:43
Baker Plbg
I'm like, I wonder if I was too soft on the ladies. That's a, I don't, I mean, it's a, I don't have the answer to that question. They're wonderful. They're all married now.
00:01:57
Baker Plbg
and they're They're all doing their own things and out there just, you know, killing it. um Sorry, they're not all married. My youngest 19 is not married, but I'm, It's it's ah in retrospect, after you know raising kids for basically 30 years,
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Baker Plbg
um
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Baker Plbg
you always look back.
Lessons from Parenting and Plumbing
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Baker Plbg
it's It's no different than a plumbing job. You look back and go, man, I could have done that different or that different. And there's lots of circumstances where I look back and I go, man, did I handle that the right way?
00:02:31
Baker Plbg
I don't know. I don't know what the answer is. And I don't get to do it again, and I'm not doing it again. So they just get to deal with but with their own psychosis of being children of Bob Baker.
00:02:44
Baker Plbg
um i do I do want to publicly acknowledge how much i appreciate all of them. I think they're wonderful human beings. I am grateful to be their father.
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Baker Plbg
And
00:02:59
Baker Plbg
it has been the biggest challenge, I've said that before, of my whole life is being... a parent um and and trying to find that balance between um preparing them for the world and don't know what the word is being kind to them that sounds harsh but if you're a parent then you know it's not an easy
00:03:30
Baker Plbg
And to and and it in today's day and age, it certainly is getting more difficult, but I guess I want to say to everybody is that
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Baker Plbg
we should all be kinder.
Acknowledging Gratitude Across Generations
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Baker Plbg
i had it it I had the most wonderful parents, my mom and dad. I have nothing but gratitude for them, having sort of been through the wars of raising children myself.
00:03:56
Baker Plbg
know what they went through. There was six of us and some of them are fabulous and some of them have gone completely off the rails. Um, and I don't know why.
00:04:08
Baker Plbg
i I get that not everybody's experience is the same in a household, but for some of those experiences to be so vastly different and their behaviors so out of the standard deviation is a mystery to me.
00:04:27
Baker Plbg
And I wonder if if, you know, if I could talk to my folks, if they would sort of say something similar that maybe, you know, where they thought they could have done something different
The Evolving Role of a Parent
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Baker Plbg
or better.
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Baker Plbg
or or nothing at all. um One of the great things about life is is I certainly believe once you become of age and you're no longer living in my home, you get to do whatever you want to do.
00:04:53
Baker Plbg
I'm here for handshakes and hugs and advice, but that's really now my role as cheerleader and not particularly mentor. It's super complicated relationship. so Good luck to all of you out there with your kids. That, as usual, is my thoughts, not yours.
Navigating Life's Challenges
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Baker Plbg
It's a wonderful life. It's a difficult life. There are pitfalls and problems every single step of the way, and I wish you all the best in trying to figure all those out. I'm not sure. I certainly didn't miss all the landmines, but hopefully minimize the damage enough that they don't have to go see go to therapy.
00:05:35
Baker Plbg
Anyway, that's it. Have a fabulous whatever freaking day it is. And hit check out the new freaking freaking six.