HeyJaredReflections In Modern Parenthood
My morning reflections as a father and husband, keeping perspective on what matters most.
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My Kids Are Watching Me Be Afraid (opens the original)
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I just finished the documentary, Louder Than Fear, about the famous drummer and producer Travis Barker. I grew up on Blink-182. I grew up in Southern California and the punk scene. I went into this documentary as a fan. I left it relating to parts of his life I didn’t know, and now, as a father, I unexpectedly bawled my eyes out.Travis should have died in a plane crash in 2008. He had severe flight anxiety before the tragedy that he thinks was contributed to by his late mother. The weird shit he
Cleanin Out My Closet (opens the original)
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If you don’t know why I titled this “Cleanin’ Out My Closet,” you either are too young or you lived under a rock when the rapper Eminem was in his prime. Very short explanation: it was a brutal, unfiltered, crass anthem to his toxic mother/son relationship. It lays it out so viscerally. In one bar, you feel the depths of his childhood trauma, now reflected back at him as a parent himself, when he raps about imagining his own daughter growing up without ever knowing her grandmother, implying she
“Sorry about the mess.” (opens the original)
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“I don’t want to be in 4th grade. I don’t want to get older and be into new things. I want to grow up, but I want to stay little,” my daughter tells me at 10:10 PM. School goes back in less than a month. Another Summer down. Nine more Summers before she’s an adult. Off to conquer the world. What world will that be? God only knows. The universe only knows. I respond that she is still so young and doesn’t need to worry about this. She has so much time. She rebuts that two years goes by too fast. S
It's Not What I Thought It Would Be (opens the original)
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I started posting short form video content on TikTok in 2020. A year later, I landed my first brand deal for $300. Took me under an hour to complete the project. I thought, “Wow, how cool that I just made money from my phone, at home with my family and had fun doing it.” Plus we needed the money. This would start my content creation journey and eventually lead to my mental breakdown.I was nearing 13 years as a personal strength and conditioning coach. I loved my job but I didn’t love the hours a
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