Jocko Underground: Sometimes We See People Treating Kids Horribly.

Jocko Willink· Host0:00

This is the Jocko Underground podcast, number 209.

Echo Charles· Co-host0:03

Mm.

Jocko Willink· Host0:04

Shout out to Stockton.

Echo Charles· Co-host0:06

Hell yeah.

Jocko Willink· Host0:07

Echo Charles sitting here. Unfortunately not the Diaz brothers- Oh shoot ... which would be a hell of a lot better. [laughs] They'd l- get their take on things, you know what I'm saying?

Echo Charles· Co-host0:16

That would be, yeah.

Jocko Willink· Host0:18

That would be legit.

Echo Charles· Co-host0:19

Insightful. Interesting.

Jocko Willink· Host0:19

But we do have Echo Charles, and we do have questions from you all out there in the field on the front lines. We're gonna give you courses of action to help you get through and navigate these challenges that you face.

Echo Charles· Co-host0:32

Mm.

Jocko Willink· Host0:32

So let's get to it.

Echo Charles· Co-host0:33

Okay, first question. Uh, okay. "How to deal with witnessing parents neglecting and/or abusing children when I'm out in public?" Okay. "I was neglected. I was a n- neglected child of awful parents myself, and now I'm a father of a toddler. I've been getting more and more hypersensitive to witnessing how badly the majority of parents treat their children. Things like parents and relatives feeding small toddlers sugar and junk food, ignoring their fair requests, verbally mistreating them, plain physical aggression, smoking tobacco nearby, provoking toxic, hazardous examples. Oh, sorry, providing toxic and hazardous examples and environment to children," et cetera, et cetera. "Although I make sure I, I direct my eyes away from people when I'm at places full of families with kids, I still see these things way too often and it bothers me,