MINI: Love Your Kids Enough to Say That's Not Good Enough

About this episode

Ben discusses the importance of maintaining high standards in parenting and its impact on children's performance.

What if the most loving thing you can say to your child is, “That’s not good enough.” In this mini episode, Ben tackles a quiet pattern that shows up in farming families everywhere — not laziness, not bad intent, but standards that slowly soften over time. And when standards soften, performance follows. It rarely looks dramatic. It looks like picking your battles. Letting small things slide. Telling yourself you’ll deal with it later. After harvest. After weaning. After the next busy season...

People in this episode

Host: Ben Law

Topics covered

• parenting
• standards
• performance
• farming families
• child development

Keywords

• parenting
• standards
• farming
• performance
• child development

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