The Struggle is Real: Dad Life: Recent Episodes
Jeffrey Jorgensen
This podcast was created to connect to all fathers, and husbands that deal with the constant struggle of balancing family, work, continuing education, and things are they enjoyed doing. Welcome to the Struggle is Real: Dad Life podcast.
The real vs fake Christmas tree argument.
Husbands are always the one to deal with Christmas trees.
Real Christmas tree were more expensive this year due to the economic downturn back in 2008.
http://time.com/money/5038943/christmas-tree-more-expensive/
Guys are always the ones to apologize first in an argument.
Kids don’t remember things when they are very young
Projecting your emotions onto your kids is not a clever idea
Chris brings in Starbucks and flowers because his OCD got in the way of cleaning.
Intro Track - I dunno by grapes (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 Ft: J Lang, Morusque
The Struggle is Real: Dad Life Episode 7 - Pursuing education later in life can be a struggle.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Sean’s talks about flight school and his progress through a pilot flight syllabus.
Swearing in flight school and getting corrected by an old lady about swearing while she talks to another adult like a child.
The differences between swearing in the military vs the civilian sector and why it’s different.
Someone else getting in trouble and it is thrown you off your game.
Don’t look at some one while you are flying can be dangerous, especially if the flight instructor is doing it as well.
Different flight gates in civilian flying compared to the military, and becoming a flight instructor.
Balancing time between family, flight school, husband, father, and work.
Dealing with laundry for an family of 6 is like doing one persons laundry for a week in one day.
Getting ahead of your own learning p [...]
Jeff created a video about how he created his trim in his house, two days after surgery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLZEcabkGuc
Theory of identity development.
https://www.learning-theories.com/identity-status-theory-marcia.html
Diving into the nitty gritty of where certain individuals might be in their life.
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html
By changing the perspective and expectations you change the way in how you see and live your life.
What defines success in your career and how a lot of time success is subjective and not objective.
Working on progression while things from your past keeping you back.
What success looks like to the world.
People can’t sustain a sense of bless all the time. This is just a part of life.
If people feel the need to verbally tell you that they are happy usually aren’t happy.
How a haircut can make someone more [...]
Sean might have accidentally water boarded his kid. His 3rd oldest child would listen to him in the bath tub, so Sean pored water over his head.
Sean’s resting B-face. If you notice the Podcast album cover, this is your standard picture of Sean and his normal face.
When all your children are your favorite kid. Why having a favorite in our eyes is impossible.
Jeff’s Dad’s cruel joke about telling him that Jeff’s other siblings were is favorite.
When, as a dad, did you start talking like a dad? Sometimes talking like a dad just happens.
Jeff classically conditioning his daughter. Telling his daughter “Hands up don’t shoot” to make it easier to take her shit off to get her ready for bath time.
http://open.lib.umn.edu/intropsyc/chapter/7-1-learning-by-association-classical-conditioning/
Jeff tells the stor [...]
We talk about exercising
Running to Mexico and back
Endurance races
Coming from a fat kid to endurance athlete
Depression and the sense of feeling
Talk about the Lexus crash in San Diego in 2009
What to do if you’re accelerator pedal gets stuck.
Why Chris bought a Prius
Your wife tries to you into something, and your friend talks you into it
Chris gets a hot tub
Our family dynamics
Varieties types of maturity
Dad problems
Kids testing parents
Dad super powers
You don’t know it’s the last time pick up your kid until it’s the last time.
When your kid says, “mom let me in charge”
My kids OCD
Mom’s want baby girls, dads want baby boys.
Crash in San Diego, with a stuck accelerator pedal.
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/the-scene/cars/Feds-Confirm-Stuck-Gas-Pedal-Caused-Lexus-crash-66214482.html
DIY vs getting a contractor.
Buying tools.
The list of all the cars and motorcycles we owned.
Why we don’t ride motorcycles anymore.
Chris’s wife teaching him to drive a stick shift.
Chris builds Jeff’s dream backyard in Chris’s backyard.
Pilot: A Peek Behind the Curtain
Cast introductions
Why we created the podcast
Swearing around kids
Life balance
long commutes to work
a peek behind the curtain of the warfighter
when someone thanks you for your service
similarities between military and civilians
sports talk and Chris’s guilty pleasure
Chris’s OCD
Our teaser episode for The Struggle is Real: Dad life.
In this teaser we talk about our cursing in front of kids, and memory. We then move onto Chris and Jeff’s long as heck 160-mile commute to work every week day. We end of closing with a discussion on people thanking us for our service, our being desensitized to what we do for a living, and the similarities between us all as dads.