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You Can’t Parent Your Way Out of What You Modeled

High Agency··6 August 2026·16 min

About this episode

My son barks orders at his siblings and i almost correct him, until I realizes: he learned it from me. This episode is about the moment parenting stops being about managing your kids’ behavior and starts being about confronting your own. • The moments that changed how I see discipline • The coffee cup analogy: why what’s inside you is what comes out under pressure • The parenting hack of giving yourself a timeout instead of your kids • Why correcting a child’s behavior you modeled makes you “the biggest idiot” and what to do instead