Richard R. Ramos and a co-speaker discuss six parenting principles, focusing on discipline and loyalty. The co-speaker calls themselves a cycle breaker, determined to confront discipline as the elephant in the room after watching inconsistent discipline damage their siblings and themselves.
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Then we talk about earning respect for your authority, the proper use of discipline, community building or citizenship, reconciliation, and loyalty. Of those 6 principles that we teach, was any one of them— we also talk about the home field advantage— was any one of them, or is it, was any one lesson that you, now that you've been teaching it, that you feel kind of stands out to you?
I feel that the— there's two lessons that stand out for me the most. Um, one is discipline, because it's the one topic that a lot of the times our society does not want to talk about. So I'm like, I get to be the cycle breaker. I get to be like, hey, we're going to talk about this because it's important. Yeah, because I went through it myself and I know what it— how it damages kids. Um, I saw how it damaged my siblings. And so how can I prevent that from happening? And the— and you have to talk about the elephant in the room, right? So, um, that's an opportunity for growth. And the other session is, uh, the other lesson is loyalty.