Would You Start This Habit Today?
Inspired by Uri Levine episode
Uri Levine asks every 30 days: "Would I hire this person today knowing what I know now?" Apply this to the parenting habits you started six months ago and are now dying inside maintaining.
Uri's hiring litmus test is brutal but effective. Every 30 days, remove emotion and ask: would you start this relationship today with what you know now? If the answer is no, act immediately.
Your toddler loved being carried everywhere at 18 months. Sweet bonding. You were younger then. More optimistic. Now they're 2.5 years old and you're hauling them around the zoo while your spine files a formal complaint with HR. Every 30 days ask yourself: would I start this habit today knowing what I know now?
The reward chart worked brilliantly in September. It's January. Your kid hasn't glanced at it in six weeks but you're still maintaining it, adding stickers to a system nobody cares about. Would you start this chart today? No? Stop.
They've changed. Your strategy needs to catch up. The 30-day check isn't about admitting failure. It's about not carrying a 35-pound human through a parking lot because you were too tired to reassess.
