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The Power of Apprenticeship in Modern Parenting

Have you ever wondered about the lost art of apprenticeship and how it's changed over the years? Join Brent as he dives deep into the fascinating history of apprenticeship and its relevance in today's world. From generational businesses to life skill...

Have you ever wondered about the lost art of apprenticeship and how it's changed over the years? Join Brent as he dives deep into the fascinating history of apprenticeship and its relevance in today's world. From generational businesses to life skills, Brent discusses the importance of passing down knowledge and skills to our children.

 

🔍 Episode Highlights:

  • The historical significance of apprenticeship.
  • The shift from generational businesses to a more individualistic approach.
  • The benefits of teaching children professional and life skills.
  • The importance of quality time and hands-on learning in apprenticeship.
  • How apprenticing your child can build professionalism and confidence.

 

Whether you're a father looking to guide your children or someone interested in the history of education, this episode offers valuable insights. Don't miss out on Brent's thoughtful perspective on balancing responsibility, personal growth, and family life.

 

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Transcript
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What if your future was
pretty much set in stone?

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You had no choice, like zero.

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You knew what you would do for the
rest of your life by the time you

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were six or eight at the latest.

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You may even already have an
idea of who you'll marry, right?

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2024 is a far cry from 1924, but
as recent as a hundred years ago,

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this was actually a normal reality.

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Now we've changed things a lot in
the last hundred years and a lot

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of areas for the better, for sure.

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However, 2024 Have we lost
something in the wash?

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I guess my idea is for you fathers
that you may want to consider today.

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So let's get into it.

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Here's the million dollar question.

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How do men like us reach our full
potential growing to the men we

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dream of being while taking care
of our responsibilities, working,

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being good husbands, fathers,
and still take care of ourselves?

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Well, that's the big question
in this podcast, we'll help you

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answer those questions and more.

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My name is Brent and welcome
to the fallible man podcast.

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Apprenticeship was the
standard for education for

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centuries all across the world.

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Boys would begin apprenticing next
to their fathers as soon as they

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were physically capable and past
that tender need to be nurtured and

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taken care of by their mother age.

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We're talking boys as young as 6 years
old and certainly by the age of 8.

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that will one day take over their father's
business and the cycle would continue.

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That's why we had artisan level
craftsmen that you hardly see anymore,

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because it was a generational business.

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It was also very common for daughters
to learn all about taking care of

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everything from sewing, cooking,
cleaning, uh, making things like quilts.

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Making life skills that were taught
as well at their mother's footstep.

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Now it wasn't until 1918, the elementary
school was actually required by all

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the States in the United States.

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Further education didn't become mandatory
like past elementary age until actually

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later in history than that, even
students still went home back in 1918

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after elementary school for the day
and apprenticed at their parents roles.

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After school and till dark,
a lot of times are later.

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And a lot of times the boys
were actually apprenticing.

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And so are the girls at their
parents hip before school as well.

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Kind of crazy, right?

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By the way, my name is Brent and
welcome to fallible man podcast.

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You're home for all things, man, a
big shout out to fallible nation.

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Those are long time listeners and a warm
welcome to our first time listeners.

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Thanks for checking us out.

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Hope you enjoy the show.

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I know there's a lot competing
for your attention, so I really

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am from the bottom of my heart.

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Thank you for checking out the show.

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Be sure and connect with me at the
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I'm especially active on Instagram.

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Let me know what you thought of the
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If you really enjoy it, that
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So what can we have possibly lost in
the wash of all this change that we've

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experienced in the last a hundred years?

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Well, we all know there's a lot
that's happened in a hundred

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years, but specifically to
this, what could we have lost?

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We obviously have way more opportunities
to live the life that we want to.

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Now we can decide our own fate or destiny
for destiny for better or for worse.

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We're no longer trapped by our
parents role in life, right?

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You aren't sentenced to the
life that you had before.

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And as a parent, I understand that
because as a parent, we want our kids to

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have a better life than we did, right?

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We want them to go farther,
do more, achieve more.

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Sometimes that's really not necessary
because you live a pretty decent life.

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But as parents, we aspirationally want
our kids to do better than we did in life.

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From our perspective, there are downsides.

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We have less generational
businesses anymore.

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Like I said, I made the comment
about artists and craftsmen.

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Artists and craftsmen are
a disappearing legacy.

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Because we don't have those generational
businesses or that knowledge has

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been passed on from generation to
generation, to generation, to generation.

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You are capable to make it on your
own now, but you can also fail easier,

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which isn't always a bad thing.

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Don't get me wrong guys.

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I'm not against failure because
failure is a learning opportunity,

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but now it's all on you.

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You're not necessarily going to get
handed over the family business.

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You may not even have a family business,
our family trade that you've been in.

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Groomed in grooms, the wrong word
is has such a negative connotation.

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It should that you have been mentored in.

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That's the right word for
the breadth of your life.

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You got to understand these young
people grew up doing this as long from

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the time they could start doing it.

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And so their skill level, I don't
like antiques, but I have a hugely

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deep respect for artisan handcrafted.

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Like woodwork and ironworks
and things like that.

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I love looking at them.

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I don't want them in my house.

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I don't want a bunch of antiques
around the place for the sake of

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having antiques, but give me an
artist and handcrafted piece of wood.

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I used to live in Southern Missouri
where we have a lot of Amish communities

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and there was this incredible store.

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On the edge of one of them
that was handcrafted furniture.

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And then the Amish community there,
this is still how things are done.

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It was generationally passed
down from father to son, father

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to son for generations and the
quality of the furniture and the

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beauty of the furniture there.

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It's just unparalleled.

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So if you're ever in that part of
the year world, go check that out.

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But you know, I'm not against
all the modern changes.

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I'm not really against that at all.

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But as a father, I look at what
did we lose in this change?

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Well, we know there's a lot of benefits
of apprenticeship as a method of training.

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You still see that in a lot of the
trades and it's still a very effectual

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way for young people to take up a
skill that will take care of their

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families and contribute to the world
and take care of them financially.

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It's a very effective way to
learn how to do something because

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college isn't for everybody.

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And that's fine.

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However, let me suggest as a father, your
job is to apprentice your child, period.

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Son or daughter is irrelevant.

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Your job is to apprentice
your child into adulthood.

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So let me suggest a few
benefits of this model.

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And then we can look at
how that goes to your life.

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How's that?

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So here's some benefits of this
concept of apprenticing your kid.

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Number one is to teach your kid a skill.

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This is nothing that is new, right?

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Apprenticeships are really
old, but this is not something

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that has gone by the wayside.

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You can start teaching your
children professional skills.

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Besides the life skills that you should
hopefully be already teaching them.

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Okay.

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My father in law taught his children
how to budget, how to balance the

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checkbook, how to reconcile an account
and how to track it all impeccably.

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My wife is so much better with
finances than I am because their father

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taught her this life skill, right?

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It's also a skill that my wife
then turned into her own business.

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25 years later as a bookkeeper,
professional skill, you have valuable

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for professional skills that you
can pass on to your children.

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No matter what you do for a living.

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It doesn't matter if you're a tradesman
or if you're in another industry, I

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spend time teaching my children, graphic
design skills, help them start their

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own business and that making merchandise
for kids, I will teach them more things

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like video editing, audio editing,
web design, as they move forward.

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And as they understand one concept
at a time, so that by the time that

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they're looking at doing real work.

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They're going to have a skill set.

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That's actually very profitable
for them already outside of what

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the schools are teaching them.

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You can equip your children
with specific skills to let them

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have a better starting point.

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Now, lifestyle skills should be
apprenticed throughout their whole

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life, cooking, sewing, time management,
communication skills, financial IQ.

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And so many more, please don't,
don't drop the ball on that.

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We're seeing what that
looks like these days.

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So please, please, please.

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If you have life skills as an
adult, be teaching them to your

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children through their whole life.

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Number two is quality time.

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Apprenticing your kid
creates quality time.

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Now I've been a trainer in
almost every job I've ever had.

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I have a talent at teaching people skills.

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Apparently, this is just
something I've found true.

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That's not a brag.

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That's just where I've been my whole life.

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One thing I can tell you from decades,
and I do mean decades of experience.

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You cannot teach people, really teach
people things without quality interaction.

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Sure.

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I mean, you can fuss and
scream and be a jackass.

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And that's how people who are
bad at teaching things do.

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But if you really want to
teach people something.

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It requires patience, communication,
gentleness, listening, and time

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together, which is quality time.

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Number three, kids feel
invested in and valued.

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Because apprenticing requires
quality time and training, your

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kids feel invested in and valued.

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You get to celebrate the accomplishments
they make as the kids level up.

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And you do it naturally because you're
trying to train them to be successful

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and teach them how to do things.

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And so it's really easy to celebrate
those moments as something clicks,

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as they do something really
well, as they master a skill.

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This positive reinforcement is affirming
and validating for that young person.

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And this is a healthy
part of raising kids.

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And it's a by product
of good apprenticing.

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Number four, kids learn to communicate.

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You can be involved in all of the
aforementioned pro or let me rephrase

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that you cannot be sorry, involved
in all of the aforementioned process

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without the young person learning to
communicate effectively with people.

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The child will learn to
communicate at an adult level.

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Because they're communicating with
an adult through this whole process.

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And that includes learning to
ask quality questions, which in

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itself is a high value skill.

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By trial and error along the way through
the process, the child will learn to

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ask questions to solicit the necessary
information for them to perceive what

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they're doing, but also learn to talk
at an adult level much faster than.

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If they're only interacting with
kids, number five, hands on learning.

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And my last job, I have my training of
new employees down to a precise, highly

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effective process at a very clear, well
written process doc that they had to read.

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Then they followed along.

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In the process doc step by step as
I did the process in front of them.

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Then they went step by step through the
process doc with their hands on doing

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the task as I talked them through and set
with them one step at a time, very slowly.

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Then they did it once following
the process doc step by step when

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the only answering questions.

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As they went through it.

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Now I repeated that last step as many
times as it took, but the speed at

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which they picked up the new skill was
incredible and it all rested on me getting

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their hands on as fast as possible.

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The faster I could put their
hands on it and let them do it,

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the faster they learn the skill.

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Hands on learning is still the
fastest and most effective way to

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build a skill and confidence in a
skill and our confidence as a person.

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As our friend, January Donovan likes
to say, competence builds confidence.

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Well, competence will always be
achieved much more quickly and

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efficiently with our hands on approach.

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You teach a kid to cook,
get them in the kitchen.

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You want to teach the kid computer
skills, get them on the computer.

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You want to teach them to have mechanical
skills, get a wrench in their hand

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and get them in the car with you
or whatever else you're working on.

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The faster you can put their hands
on it, the faster they'll learn.

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And so hands on learning
is the best way to go.

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Number six is they learn professionalism.

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Now, apprenticing is something
you're doing as a father regardless

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of whether you want to or not.

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That's a fact.

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The child will watch what you
do, not what you will say.

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So, apprenticing your child in business
work skills, you have the opportunity

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to help them become professional in
a world sorely lacking professionals.

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How you conduct yourself every
day from the time you become a

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father shapes the child's life.

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So why not teach them to be great in a
professional environment as well, by the

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way you interact with them and letting
them see you interact with your book

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job or your business or a skillset.

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Now, those are the benefits
of apprenticing a kid.

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It went on for generations and
generations and generations.

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How do you apply this?

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In life today, right?

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Cause we send kids to school.

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Well, you know what?

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Your kid's not in school all the time.

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Maybe your kid isn't going to sit at
your feet and learn your career path.

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That's fine.

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You can still apprentice
them in skills that you have.

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So teach them your profession, teach them
all these things we're talking about.

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Teach them how to cook, apprentice
them in these different skills.

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It'll improve your relationship
with your kid as a father.

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It will.

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Also improve that child's chance
moving forward in the future.

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How you apply this is
entirely up to you today.

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I'm just trying to share with you
this concept because it will make a

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big difference in your kid's life.

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Now, as we wrap up today's discussion,
let's take a moment and consider the

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importance of passing down skills
and knowledge to our children.

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Skill sets are disappearing every day.

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Apprenticeship has played a vital
role throughout history, helping

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people learn trades and life skills
from the parents or their mentors.

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So here's a challenge for you.

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Think about the skills
and knowledge you have.

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How can you teach these things to your
children in an apprenticeship manner?

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It could be a job related skill like
graphic design or bookkeeping, like my

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wife and I benefit from, or even basic
life skills, cooking, managing your

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finances, fixing things around the house.

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How many dads like to fix things
around the house or do it anyway?

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Whether you like it or not, by taking
the time to teach our children,

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we can help them become much more
capable and confident individuals

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early on confident kids, getting less
trouble, confident kids, get bullied.

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Less confident kids have
less struggles in school.

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It's not just about school grades by
preparing them for life's challenges.

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And by helping them build skills,
we will make them more confident.

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So let's bring back the tradition of
apprenticeship into our modern world.

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And let's invest in our
children's future by sharing our

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knowledge and skills with them.

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If you found today's discussion helpful,
please share it with other parents.

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That's the greatest thing you can do.

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As far as your reaction to the
show together, we can create a

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community of empowered parents,
raising strong, confident kids.

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Thanks for tuning in the
show until next time.

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Keep being an awesome dad, be better
tomorrow because what you today,

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and I'll see you on the next one.

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