Love this guy!! Well spoken! Super athlete!. Great dad! Keep living the great life Laird!!!

He makes a good point about the time actually spent on instruction in school. I hadn't thought about that.

Graham is the gold standard in interviewing.

Laird’s response on having a son, comes from someone who has never had one; something unique about that father son relationship.

"Maybe I've been spared that burden of having a son." he's a wise man. I think the gods were watching over him in so many ways. I hope he's as good a father as he appears to be in this video.

@taoist32

6 жыл бұрын

MaddenManification From all the interviews and videos he doesn’t seem to have any contradictions. He is who he is.

@curiousbystander9193

4 жыл бұрын

didn't you like his arrogance, as if a son would never achieve the heights of his greatness and manhood, just impossible. Who saved whom from what?

@curtiswilliams6902

4 жыл бұрын

Curious bystander I don’t think he has a huge ego or is he that Arrogant! He’s pretty down to Earth, and a nice guy and great Father because he didn’t have one! No he’s super cool for how famous he is!

@mingamanga

3 жыл бұрын

@@curiousbystander9193 I didn't get the impression that he thought that the pressure/expectation he feels he would put on a son would be justified. Just that he recognised and accepted that it is something that he could feel in that situation

@curiousbystander9193

3 жыл бұрын

@@mingamanga see, I got the impression his inner dialogue was more like, "There's nothing a son would ever do that would be as great as my triumphs, so good thing I didn't have a boy."

2:30 he’s so right that the actual learning in school amounts to 2hrs out of 8hr days. And that’s at most.

@koolkitties8552

5 жыл бұрын

Kids dont go to school 8 hours.Its like 6 hours.

@curiousbystander9193

5 жыл бұрын

@@koolkitties8552 from 9am til noon I had to pay attention, and from 12:30 to 3pm again. Yeah, 2 gyms classes a week slid in there and a couple study halls, but whatever.......you do the math.

@wellstone1897

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, also they can pay house staff to take care of their home and kids. And they don't need to work 10h/day!

@helenholt1161

4 жыл бұрын

@@koolkitties8552 From front door to front door it is 8 hours, or more. I dont think there is an educator out there that will dispute the math. Now there are other arguments for and against home schooling but efficiency isn't one of them.

Such a good man

Laird is the man

Good questions!

The social ‘stuff’ is important.

@wt2759

3 жыл бұрын

Not when you get it elsewhere. (Which his, and many others do) That’s his point. School is largely a waste of time with regards to actual “learning” time.

Born and raised in Hawaii - on Maui - in the 1960/70’s with my 5 older sisters, I am very grateful to have had that unique island upbringing and the many wonderful memories, and so glad my sons also had the joy of experiencing an island childhood. Maui No Ka Oi. 🏝 • 🌊 • 🌈 • 🤙 • ❤️

@bambaam7186

3 жыл бұрын

based on what Laird said about his upbringing as a white male it was not easy because of the racial issues. was it less stressful for a white girl back then?

his metaphors say something, don;t they!

Laird is a good man

Laird is a complicated dude. Glad he is grounded.

Good for you for homeschooling your children. We did that also!!! You are an amazing individual and your wife is also.

Exactly!!! The kids are being raised to BE adults so thier #1 peers should BE mature adults. In government schools, kids are held back emotionally and maturity by being with their same immature age group.

@helenholt1161

4 жыл бұрын

I agree to a large extent but there are socialization skills that can ONLY be learned interacting regularly with a peer group.

His wife always looks taller in the photos that I've seen!

I can certainly relate to that. Most dads want a son. Someone to play baseball, take fishing and share a duck or deer blind with. My son was my daughter. She was daddy's girl. My shadow. Whatever I did, she wanted to do and I wouldn't have traded her or the times we shared for a dozen sons. 4 years after she was born the Lord and my wife blessed me with my son. Nothing like having a son and a daughter. They were the best thing I ever did with help from above and my wife. I love you both.

When he talked about the metaphor of heating, hammering, and cooling a blade repeatedly to make it sharper and stronger I thought he would conclude "... and that is what you do for your children", but he says, "that is what children do for you". He is still very much focused on his own experience. At some point, most parents turn from their own journey to shaping that for their children. Although Hamilton is rare not only in how widely he has pioneered, but how late in life he has continued to do so.

@imiloa.

5 жыл бұрын

Incorrect. The goal is not to shift from shaping your journey into one of shaping your children's: that is their job. Your job is to nurture, but not give up on your journey! You shape your own journey and your children learn - in turn - to shape their own. Look, life's lessons are not learned by words, but by example. The goal is to focus on your own life experience and make it the very best. Your kids will benefit from that intensely.

@coppersense999

5 жыл бұрын

@@imiloa. very wise perspective. The only problem is when some people choose to have kids without deciding to also become parents, especially if they still have their own issues they need to straighten out, maybe some healthy self-parenting to correct their own problematic childhood. Even with the most well-adjusted adults, I think the commitment to being a parent is different from agreeing to have kids in the audience of the movie of your life, starring you (not YOU you, just okay say, Madonna or J. Lo for example). But you are absolutely right; parents who think it is in their job description to stop living and live for their kids, or to control their kids, etc have boundary issues. Like a bar of soap, with kids, don't hold to tight and don't let go completely, just cradle them in your palm, like God does.

I remember feeling like there is always something I had to learn and it lasted ALL DAY, not just 2 hrs...

@odhj

6 жыл бұрын

Let me guess you are home schooled?! LOLOL 🤣👌🏾

@odhj

6 жыл бұрын

CTFU!

@coppersense999

5 жыл бұрын

That says more about you than about our educational system, I think. I am guessing you are someone who is still learning, even when not in school now. Life-long learner. (Anyone who thinks they aren't is not the best company prolly lol.)

I'm disappointed that Bensinger focused on the fact that Laird doesn't have a son without bothering to ask: "Hey, are your GIRLS athletes?" Gaby Freakin-Reece is a STUD volleyball player and probably ALL-WORLD at every sport she's ever played! Oh, and btw, girls surf too.

Laird, it's more than 2 hours, if you were paying attention!

Japanese steel is actually inferior to Damascus steel, which is why it has to be layered like that which makes them the sharpest blade but definitely not the hardest steel.

@josephagee5067

6 жыл бұрын

Patrick Hoff don't be a kook

Laird has to conquer Naz

I'm glad I went to public school and not homeschool. Public school is reality it's what you're going to experience when you get a real job. 9 year old should be talking to 9 year olds not just adults. I think kids need to go to school get in to a fight have their lunch money stolen, and know what it's like to not get picked for a sport. I loved marching band, concert band, Orchestra and Jazz Band. I loved going to the football games and doing halftime shows. I loved going to band reviews and competing. I loved playing in the orchestra for the school musicals. Homeschoolers don't get to enjoy any of that. Just my opinion.

is this Larry or Laird??? lol I'm thinking Laird because you seemed more serious here.

@coppersense999

5 жыл бұрын

Larry, according to his wife in another interview with this same guy Graham, is who Laird turns into after a couple bottles of wine. So I am thinking it is Laird.

@jacobgalloway9123

4 жыл бұрын

Wow you're really on the inside! What's he really like?

The rest of school is a little socializing, the rest is BS!!

Is the tall blonde one still for sale?

3:33 Best effing endorsement of homeschooling ever. "You realize it only takes 2 hours to learn the material. What is going on the other six hours?" Exactly. One word: Columbine. I'm dead serious. Especially for introverts, or HSP, it's like that samurai sword ....20 years later I will say "trial by fire" but I wanna say torture. At that age you #1 don't have the wisdom of experience to know it gets better, or that young people are stupid and straight up wrong, or that you are stronger and better and #2 you are actually still in your formative years, where a destructive environment can actually deform you during your growth process or, of course as they say, not kill you and thus make you stronger. So the ignorance of youth is kind of a blessing, like the immigrant working in the fields picking fruit who is pregnant who works up until they are in labor and is back in the fields a week later, just because the idea of "bed rest" never occurred to her. Not disparaging that mother, I mean literally sometimes you don't know you can't do something or survive something extraordinary just because no one ever said you couldn't. That's where social media, frankly media in general, screws you with FOMO. If you don't compare yourself to someone richer or healthier or more beautiful, then you enjoy a lot more contentment. As long as the people around you do not exploit that ignorance, or purposefully cultivate it in order to abuse you, as with a cult or whatever. Smh, God help us. But anyway ... didn't mean to write an essay, just wanted to emphasize the point that high school historically is a new invention and it is about 98 percent not useful if not outright HARMful. Honestly. Think about it. It is a "Lord of the Flies" experiment just waiting to happen, and simply is not right for 100 percent of the teenage population. It is 100 percent WRONG for at least 10 percent. Okay done. See what happens when you give a "quiet" person the mic via a keyboard? lol Do not get me triggered! lol

Laird and Gabby both had bad childhoods and experiences growing up which lead them to this conclusion. Laird especially didn’t get the kind of good socialization a kid needs in school. Sounds like this is more about the parents issues than the kids good. Kids need to be around other kids.

Dudes neck is epic

What's the challenge what's the challenge, get a new question bud.

there he said it ...2 hours ...the rest is just wasting time

@berryblulight

4 жыл бұрын

the amount of time that teachers spend on something is not productive ...you can do the whole school program in 6 months

Interviewer is wearing a sarong

Daddy's girls ...... tell that to the parents whose daughters appear in porn nowadays lol..... daughters are your pride a. nd jewel which you protect but once they go and wanna do their thing. Or meet bad influences in their lives all that is destroyed

@martingimenez339

4 жыл бұрын

memoranda1 Sorry but a well educated, loved and contained girl with good values won't go and do porn. Those girls are broken at some point. Of ALL the women I know from family and friends (and I promise they are a LOT) not one of them would turn into a porn actress. I don't know what kind of environment you grew up in but it was probably different than mine.

@PeepersT

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah but it’s all daddy’s buddies and even dad that buy and watch it driving the demand.

Get real! Laird Hamilton spent all his life running waves, does it, he can't run, he can't fight. Follow his advice is you have all day to train. Why accept any advice from someone training 10 hours a day! Laird is no good for any sport after training all day long. Give us examples of real people that have to work and are excelling at any sport. People that have real lives.

You’re children only learn 2hrs a day in school?! I was in the Beta club and have a Masters degree. Congratulations!! You just ruined your kids future.....

@sychophantt

6 жыл бұрын

By the time you reach 4th grade you have all the tools you need. You don't need more than basic math and basic english

@WhiteGhost21

6 жыл бұрын

masters and can't decipher the difference between you're and your.

@odhj

6 жыл бұрын

Yep just like the difference between Ill whip you’re ass and then I whip your ass again! ;-)

@odhj

6 жыл бұрын

Typo idiot. ;-)

@taoist32

6 жыл бұрын

Kutzzz *I’ll