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Jordan Peterson Reveals Crucial Differences Between Mothers & Fathers | Parenting
Tue, 3 Jun 2025
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Chapter 1: What is the importance of parenting?
All righty, folks, I am off because of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. That is the one where the Jews received the Torah on Mount Sinai. But I didn't want to leave you hanging. Parenting is hard. Raising stable, responsible kids in this culture, even more difficult. We are giving you the first episode of Dr. Peterson's brand new series, Parenting. Head on over to dailywireplus.com.
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All right, Mama, push. Push. Perfect.
One more push.
Yeah.
There is nothing you'll do in life that's more challenging, difficult and rewarding than being a parent. Nothing with greater highs or lower lows. Worthwhile meaning in your life is going to be found in the voluntary adoption of responsibility. Voluntary self-sacrifice, that's the spirit of the functional psyche, family and community. What does it mean to be a father?
What does it mean to be a mother? You need to know very clearly what it is that you can do for your children in order to help them live a life that's adventurous and responsible. I've distilled the decades of my experience as a researcher and clinical psychologist into the lessons every striving mother or father needs to learn.
If you've ever thought about becoming a parent or are a parent already, this series is for you. Hello. I sat down recently with many moms and dads to personally discuss the situations they were facing with their children.
Our 13-year-old, we spoiled the heck out of him.
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Chapter 2: What are the key differences between mothers and fathers?
That's another encapsulation of the masculine role. The establishment of a vision. The commitment to its pursuit. Resilience in the face of failure. Faith in the future. service to your family, your community, protection from the catastrophes of life, and care of the most vulnerable. That's masculinity in a nutshell.
That's why the shepherd, for example, in old religious stories is a model of masculinity. Ancient shepherds, they kept the wolves and the lions at bay and took care of the most vulnerable. And that's what men who are worthy of the name strive for. Don't assume that there's a pathway to being a father. Just have a relationship with the kid. And that'll unfold at its own speed.
And that is what happens with fathers anyways. You've got to get to know your kid. And you do that by spending time with them. And just because children know less about the world at the experiential level doesn't mean they're not paying attention. And it certainly doesn't mean that they're stupid. They're not stupid, and they're watching, and you can talk to them.
Now, you have to talk to a two-year-old about the things that a two-year-old can understand, but if you have a genuine conversation with them, then you're communicating, and that's just steady all the way through. There's no difference, technically speaking, between being concerned with yourself in the narrow sense, say concerned with your own pleasure, concerned with your own status.
There's no difference between that and suffering. The answer to that isn't to stop being self-conscious because that's not something you can voluntarily control. The answer is to note that meaning in your life is going to be found in adoption of responsibility for other people, and responsibility for the future.
Shouldering that load makes you productive and useful, but it also provides you with the sustaining meaning that helps you manage yourself even through times of trouble.
For the past couple of months, he's been calling me daddy.
Oh, yeah.
What do you think of that? It makes me feel a lot more pressure than I was comfortable with at first.
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