Kids Undistracted & Buzzwords

Do you get much time with your kids undistracted? Dangerous Dave talks about a survey of parents that says they only seem to get little time during meals. Plus, buzzwords that immediately make your BS alarm go off.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is deeper in the din with dangerous day. Well,
you know, getting a whole family together to sit down
for meal is a massive chore because everyone is on
a different schedule, everybody wants to eat something different, or
nobody even wants to be there. In a survey, sixty
one percent of parents with kids said meal times are
their only times are able to fully engage with their

(00:21):
children without distractions. Eighty seven percent of people believe small
moments at the table can have a long term positive impact,
but even if they're just able to get together, forty
one percent of parents said it isn't as much as
talking as they'd like. Main hurdle cleaning them afterwards, dealing
with picky eaters and complaints, to get kids to sit
still during eating time, and managing to schedule different routines.

(00:45):
They say, keeping screens away from the table without having
a meltdown is a problem, and getting anyone to talk
beyond fine and I don't know is difficult. Yeah, how
was your day today? Fine? What you learn in school?
I don't know? Well me either? In the two Well,
have you been listening to somebody and they utter something

(01:06):
so immediately you question, do you have any idea what
you're talking about. They ask people on social media about
buzzwords that immediately set off your BS alarm. Some of
the best examples include calibrate. Person said, I work at
a school district. Every year. The news buzzword this year
is calibrat and word comes out in a meeting and agenda.
We know it's nonsense and it's about to get deep.

(01:27):
Other buzzwords that set off your BS detector. Family when
you reference work environment team player, they said, anytime I
hear that, I know I'm about to do the majority
of the work and get zero the credit and little
reward integrated with AI unprecedented alpha and beta in terms
of people. Other buzzwords immediately set off BS alarms. I'm
going to try to keep this brief or a quick question.

(01:49):
Natural gaslighting, growth, mindset, thought, leader, leverage, synergy, woke, influencer, aesthetic, holistic,
and work life balance. Also included seamless when they discussed
the process of changes or et cetera. Guess what it's
never seamless. Tune it again for another episode of Deeper
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