The Most Important Parenting Advice

 And this is a very powerful parenting tip. Every parent is judging their kids based on yesterday, but your kids are living in today, which is a better indicator of tomorrow. That'S really really powerful. Dropping knowledge Gary trying to give decent micro content for my Instagram. You know but but this is yeah, is I really like how articulated that like? That makes a lot of sense to me, and that has been the Bennet. You know when I said to my dad. I want to open a.com in 1996. My dad had never been on a computer at that point, I'm being serious right now. I had never physically used the computer at that point. So he's you know, 43 years old and it's never in his life used a computer. So for him to judge me deciding to launch at com, I ended up being historically correct. I also luckily had an incredible father who, at that point, saw what I did in a liquor store from 14 to 21 and saw that I worked hard and it wasn't an idiot and I paid my dues and he gave me my opportunity to do that. Right. A lot of kids go into their family business and expect their parents to let them do something, but they didn't put in the seven years that I put in I you know people like oh he's like Gary. How did you convince your dad to let you do those radical things by working my face off from 14 to 22? By the time I was taught that nobody understood that so so you know that's one so, anyway, man, I'm really excited we're talking about this. I think I just I think we just helped a lot of parents. I really mean that and hearing that you have an eleven year old, like he's more right than you are now. The key to this whole thing was it's funny that I brought 14 to 20 to the key. If your son wants to be a professor, you know a professional sports gambler or a sports card flipper or sneaker flipper, or an eSports star or an Instagram celebrity his work ethic. This is where parents often make the mistake in reverse. When I turned 14, I was a bad student. I was already baseball card entrepreneur. My mom and dad looked at me and said you now work in the liquor store every day. You'Re not gon na be a not gon na Harvard bigshot. That means you're gon na have to work right. You might as well start now. So if your kid tells you that they're not gon na follow the school system, I don't think and they're not gon na be in the NBA. They might not be able to be on three basketball teams. You may have to cut them to one cuz. You want them to still have a balanced life, but they better work. Parents are not putting kids into the working system early enough. So now you have a kid: that's getting D's and F's, but he's telling your mom don't worry. I'M gon na be the next Mark. Zuckerberg Mark Zuckerberg sold CDs Mark Zuckerberg, built apps when he was a kid there's. A second part of this conversation - that's not being talking about I've, never talked about it, I'm pumped for putting this on film as well. If you're gon na, let your kid be an entrepreneur and that's the path. I want that kid to actually work. So what job do you want these kids to get either a business that actually makes money that they're doing by themselves? That'S fine, get a joint account. Show me Ricky, not ideas, ideas, execution! You got a business this summer, you're a DNF student going into ninth grade. Now we're going to high school we've had a very adult conversation that you're not gon na, maybe go to college or you're, not a great student. Okay, in between your summer, from 8th to 9th grade, instead of slacking off and getting ready for high school, you either a go work at Walmart, so you can get dirt under your nails. Cuz! That'S the future of your life, who no kid wants to do that or you better start flipping on ebay or stock X, or show me that your Instagram account around Magic. The Gathering or around fashion makes money so I'll give you June. But if on 4th of July, you can't show me a bank account that has $ 2,000 in it, because you sold ads on your Instagram now you're going to Walmart suffocating. That is the key to practical parenting instead of ideological parenting right, and that is the framework of my optimism. You