Two years ago my 5-year-old was a walking argument machine. Dinner? War. Bedtime? War. Everything? War.

I was done arguing and repeating myself.

So I stole Elon’s first-principles thinking and paired it with pure FAFO parenting — “Fuck Around and Find Out.”

No lectures. No threats. Just: Break it to the simplest truth → run the experiment → laugh at the explosion → let reality teach.

The result? Arguments dropped ~85%. Tantrums nearly vanished. Evaan (now 7) now solves problems before I see them.

But the real magic? It lit a nuclear hunger to learn inside him and gave him the ultimate meta-skill: a framework for learning how to learn anything, fast.

In this episode of Dads The Boy, Dhawal shares the exact experiments (broccoli science lab, Lego fort apocalypse, late-night gaming sprint ...