Dan Martell - Parenting advice

00:00:00.000 I actually don't give a shit if my kids listen to me or not.

00:00:02.320 I actually expect them to stop listening to me.

00:00:04.640 When your kids turn 13, 14,

00:00:06.460 they will go outside of the home

00:00:08.180 to test and discover who their own identity is.

00:00:11.600 In those moments, if you fight them,

00:00:13.700 they will never come back to the family union.

00:00:15.900 Parents wrestle with this all the time,

00:00:17.720 where their kid is like dying their hair

00:00:19.760 and hanging out with the wrong people,

00:00:21.280 and they're like worried that they're gonna do something wrong

00:00:23.480 and ruin the rest of their life.

00:00:24.800 In those moments, be sure you've introduced them

00:00:27.560 to people that you trust to be their guide.

00:00:30.000 And I just think about that for my kids.

00:00:31.920 I'm designing the people that are in their life

00:00:34.980 that I trust, that can guide them

00:00:37.180 when they stop coming to me, because they will.

00:00:39.380 And that's normal.

00:00:40.520 I dyed my hair every freaking color.

00:00:42.560 I was skateboarding, hanging out with people,

00:00:44.160 wearing clothes that was 10 times bigger

00:00:45.620 than I should have been wearing.

00:00:46.860 What would have saved me from hanging out

00:00:48.940 with the wrong people was if my parents

00:00:50.800 had put me in a situation where those people

00:00:52.940 I was admiring were good people.

Dan Martell - October 11, 2025