Single Parents & Spring Cleaning

Today is National Single Parents Day and Dangerous Dave talks about unpopular opinions about kids that they stand by. Plus, spring cleaning in upon us, are you excited? Apparently, 2/3 of people are.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Please, he's deeper in the den. With Dangerous Day, Happy
National Single Parents' Day. Roughly eleven million single parent households
in the United States, eighty percent of them headed by mothers.
With National Single Parents' Day. There's a list online of
unpopular parenting opinions that single parents stand by no matter
what anybody says. They do include kids not in high

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school yet do not need smartphones. It's okay to negotiate
with your kids unless they're terrorists. We don't negotiate with
terrorists right time. It does not always go too fast.
Newborn stage doesn't go by fast enough. Don't kid yourself.
We're all miserable at this stage. Do everything for your
kids is doing them a disservice. Let them make mistakes,
let them learn, defend for themselves socially and emotionally. It's

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not a school night. Kids can stay up as late
as they want, as long as they're quiet and not
making a mess. Other unpopular decisions single parents like to
stand by. Don't tell your kids they can do literally anything.
Teach them to work hard and develop talents and interests.
Parents also should not be your kids' friends. Talk to
your kids about tough topics. Like death, sex, and money.
And I'm guessing in an age appropriate way depending upon

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their age. Right, Let your kids eat junk food from
time to time. Parents also need to care more about academics.
Pressing your kids to be perfect is wrong, but if
you don't care at all, your kids start blowing off school,
it's going to make life more difficult. Don't praise your
kids for small tasks, except the fact that you can't
always make your kids happy. They need learn to build
resilience and responsibility. Kids also need to be told no,

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kids need to do chores. It's a duty and obligation,
and parents should always allow their kids to be bored
sometimes even it means a three hour car ride with
the electronics. Oh my god, God forbid, we don't entertain
our kids all the time. In the well, winter's officially over.
First day of spring was yesterday. Are you geared up
for some spring cleaning yet? Well? According to Home Depot,

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they claim two thirds of us are amped. A poll
found sixty five percent of us look forward to spring cleaning,
eighty percent feel a sense of accomplishment from it, eighty
five percent say it approves their mental health. Seventy nine
percent of people polled. We're homeowners. That might skew the
results a bit, but according to the pole top three
spring cleaning projects we're planning on tackling this year. Washing windows,

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window screens. You might use some wind decks inside more
than once a year, but the outside of the glass
needs to get done. Cleaning the grill. Memorial Day in
May is considered the start of grilling season, but sixty
two percent said they grill year round, even in the winter.
Guilty is charged getting the yard in order, everything from mowing, weeding,
adding flowers and mulch, and seventy six percent of people

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said spring projects help cure spring fever. Miriam Webster defies
it as a laziness or feeling often associated with the
onset of spring. Better get your spring cleaning done, and
if you don't have enough to do, I can find
a few projects for you. Tune again for another episode
of Deeper in the Den with Dangerous daved by Year