I wanna talk about the power of being wrong. Now, as parents, I think we want to be right. We want to be all knowing, give our children the best advice. Why would we want to be wrong? I suggest that there's some power in being wrong because you're creating this way that there, on the one hand, there's a disagreement, but you really highlight what's not.

Right for your student. So this example of they're oversleeping for class and whatever, for whatever reason. And you problem solving, you're making the plan, okay, I'll go to bed early, this, that, and the other thing, and then nothing changes. And then it's, okay, what's up by being wrong? And you can say, this is a strategy for creating a new conversation.

And what I mean by that. Is you say something that you know is wrong, but that gets a reaction to say, no, it's not that. It could be this. In a sense, helping our students who are in college, it's getting them to say, no, it's not this, maybe I could try this other thing that I haven't, as opposed to we've all been there.

Hey, yeah, dad, I got it. I got it, I got it. I, how many times did I hear that over the years? Did they get it? I don't really know. The stakes are a little higher now. They're in college students. They're getting into adulthood and being responsible. We want them to be responsible. We want them to make good decisions, but it's not like they're just gonna listen to us.

This power of being wrong is helping them say, all right, no, I don't agree with what my dad is saying. Okay, what do I believe as opposed to me? Pulling for them to agree with me, which really is not gonna get anywhere. So it's in some ways, it's a way that they become a little more independent in how they're thinking about this problem that maybe gets them to have more buy in, finding a solution.