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Parents' Reaction | Bridger Pennington

20 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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Bridger Pennington recalls a moment at age 12 when a neighbor's child hit a church pew and the parent dismissed it. He explores how parents' reactions shape whether kids learn to take responsibility for their actions.

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I was actually at church one time, so I was in church on the pew, and right behind me, one of our neighbors, his kid smacked the pew like with his head super hard, like, you know, like a big thud, like boom. And I turned back and I look at him, and both the parents didn't move. The kid looked up at him and with tears in his eyes, and the dad was just like, you're good. And then looked back up at the speaker, and the kid was like, oh. Okay, and bounced up. And then the dad turned and looked at me and he said, it's all the reaction of the parents does everything. And for whatever reason, I was like 12 years old, that stuck with me so hard.