Name: The Good Enough Parent | Ep. 3 | Fatherhood
Uploaded: 2015-01-17T15:32:32.000Z
Duration: 6 min 55 s
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Hal: The first time I have him out alone really.

he came up with a concept of what he called

"the good-enough parent" and it was his effort

"You don't have to be perfect," which means

Every other parent has made mistakes because

that's why the good Lord sent us children,

Bryan: It's the one job we have where there's

You love it, but you don't have any tests to take,

It's an enjoyable work and a work in progress.

Voiceover: Are there any mistakes you feel you made,

Neil: We spend the first year of a kid's life

And the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.

Doug: I think one time I threatened to take a hammer

Rainn: I thought refrigerators had a handle

on the inside so the kids could let themselves out.

I have tons of regrets, are you kidding me?

We get on the platform and there's a train there,

and he's running for the door and I'm like,

"Go ahead, go ahead," but that's where [inaudible],

he runs to that door, when he gets to the door,

to go to this door, I'm standing in the car

but of course my phone doesn't work in the subway,

A train comes pretty quickly and I go down

and he's standing there with an old Chinese man.

and all I can say is thank God he wasn't with a Korean.

Hal: All right, Pally. Is anything squished in there?

Cynthia: Some of it, you do have to make mistakes.

Bryan: That's to thing they tell young parents

that, "It's okay. It's okay. Make little mistakes,

Voiceover: My wife was eight months pregnant

Two mornings a week, one of us would open the door and

So his first year of his life being awakened like

Hal: He's looking at everything but the ducks.

Joshua: My son, at five or six, was having

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