Today on the show, we welcome Dave Lee from Dave Lee on Parenting and Dave Lee on Investing. Find Dave Lee on Twitter. I’ve been following him for some time now and was pleasantly surprised when I found out he had a new YouTube channel called Dave Lee on Parenting with some very unique approaches to parenting.He talks about how he doesn’t have any rules in his household, how he and his kids are best friends, and that he has never needed to punish or police his kids, ever. I know, this guy either sounds like a robot, but as we’ll see in this interview, his success is due to his ability to teach his kids intrinsic motivation.Now, before we get started, I want to make it clear that I believe everyone’s situation is different. What works for Dave may not directly translate and work for you, but I believe that there are incredible lessons to be learned and principles to be applied here. In particular, the mentality that Dave applies to teaching his kids about why they do everything. Why do they brush their teeth, why do they clean their room, why do they eat vegetables. Often times, we as parents get trapped in the mentality of being the authority figure and policing our kids -- they need to obey us because we’re the parents. And let’s be real, sometimes, we just need to get stuff done. But, it will benefit all of us to take a deep breath and take the time to explain things to our kids in painstaking detail about why we do what we do, because in that way, they are intrinsically motivated to take action. So when one day you’re not there, your kids will brush their teeth not because you told them to, but because they know the benefits. ---Thank you for joining me today on Dad Smarter Not Harder.I want your feedback, questions, anything really. I just want to talk to you and the best way to do it is by shooting me a tweet at @junloayza.If you found this episode of Dad Smarter Not Harder valuable, then I ask you to please pay-it-forward by forwarding this episode to one other parent. Your recommendation to another parent is the greatest compliment you can give me. Thank you very much.