Dan Martell - Teach your kids about adversity

00:00:00.000 I actually don't care if my kids experience trauma.

00:00:03.040 When parents, especially successful entrepreneurial parents

00:00:05.580 that are like, oh, I wanna make sure my kids

00:00:07.460 don't have to go through the same crap as I went through.

00:00:09.560 Are you proud of how you showed up in the world today?

00:00:11.840 Yeah.

00:00:12.380 Do you realize if you change any of that,

00:00:14.240 you wouldn't be the person you are today?

00:00:15.660 You actually became this person

00:00:17.480 because of what you went through.

00:00:18.820 I believe that we gotta allow our kids

00:00:20.800 to take risks in a safe way.

00:00:22.680 When my kids were little,

00:00:23.720 like four or five years old, going to daycare,

00:00:25.700 I would watch parents sit there, tie their little shoes,

00:00:28.740 zip their little jackets, put the gloves on.

00:00:31.100 I'm like sitting there with my boys saying,

00:00:32.660 I got all night and it would take 20 minutes

00:00:34.920 for them to get ready.

00:00:35.920 And every one of the educators used to look at me

00:00:37.900 and give me a thumbs up.

00:00:39.000 If you believe that all challenge

00:00:42.060 creates the seat of opportunity for something great,

00:00:44.680 then if you shelter your children from challenges,

00:00:47.380 what are you doing?

00:00:48.480 You're blocking them from experiencing opportunity.

00:00:51.980 Too many parents want to bubble wrap their children.

Dan Martell - October 09, 2025