If a couple comes over with three or four little kids, our kids immediately engage with those

little kids.

All right, guys, welcome back to Five Minute Fatherhood.

So we've talked a lot recently about the importance of exposing your kids to adults.

I want to talk for a minute about the importance of exposing your older kids to younger

children or babies. Again, creating a culture, an intergenerational culture where your kids

feel comfortable and enjoy not just peer relationships, people that are within a year of their age, but they enjoy younger

kids, they enjoy older kids, they enjoy adults, they enjoy grandparents. This is such an important

thing to cultivate if you're going to build a multi-generational family team. And so I got an

email this week from a friend of ours named Celine.

She grew up in a traditionally Indian household, and she was writing me about a different topic,

but then she had this little PS that I thought was really interesting.

I wanted to read it out.

Just give a shout to my son, Jackson.

Basically, what she wrote was, I remember the first time Jackson met our son,

who was just a few months old, and Jackson immediately came over and wanted to hold him,

play with him. I'd never seen a non-Indian teenage boy do that before, and I still haven't

seen it. I think she said there was another boy there that was his age, and it was not unusual for a teenage boy to give a baby the time of day when his peers are around.

So he said, I was recently around teenage boys who understandably were focused on themselves and their peers. And I was reminded of how unusual

that first encounter between our son and Jackson was. I want to encourage Jackson to continue

being countercultural and nurturing his fathering skills, even at a young age. So I send this to Jackson.

This is he, and I would say this is true. Did he love that? Yeah, he did. And I've seen this. This is

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