The Saddest Generation? The saddest generation of modern times - What went wrong? Ep. 275

Today’s topic is one we have visited before.  But today, we would like to address the topic from a different angle. 

As parents we would never want to intentionally hurt our kids.  We desire the best for them and all of the best opportunities to do well in life. 

But, over the years we have lost sight of what “the best” really means for our kids. In many cases we have recognized what we have earned or achieved as adults and want to hand that right over to our kids.  This might sound like a nice thing to do as a parent, but it has hurt our kids with the unintended consequences that the world has no problem providing.
 
Life has always been hard, but in these supposed times of life being better and more accommodating to our needs than ever before, we see people hurting; Depression, Anxiety, Suicide, Divorce, Purposelessness, Drug and alcohol use, and the list goes on. 
Why in such great times are we having such difficult times?
In a nutshell, people’s expectations are not being met.  In other words, they are not getting what they want. 

Even as adults, we have become spoiled brats!
Philippians 2:3-4  "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, each of you considering the needs of others."

7 Ways to not Handicap our Kids
Name Your Target, Plan a strategy to hit your target- What do you want for your kids as adults.  (yes, you have heard that said before!!!!!!!) 
Don’t Handicap Your Children. Let your mindset be; “don’t do things for them they are capable of doing themselves”. (I’m not talking about the occasion to be kind and doing them a favor.)
No Blood, No Foul - Don’t rescue them from every bump and bruise.  Failures, falls, and misfortunes are all part of the learning process.  In fact, they are more important than the successes.  The sting of the failure will impact their life decisions far more than the joy of the win.
I Did Not Come to be Served, but to Serve. Service to others is the center of everything we do.  The opposite, service to self, is termed Narcissism.  Never lose an opportunity to have your child serve someone else.  This starts at the age of about 3.
What’s Praised is Repeated. Watch what you praise.  If you want more of a certain behavior, be liberal with your praise for that behavior.  If you want less, let them no what it is that you do want so they know what you are looking for, then praise it when they reach it.
“NO” is not a Curse Word. Real life has no problem telling us “No”.  Avoiding the negative has become a failed social experiment.  Discipline is the art of knowing how to implement the “NO” in our lives.  The faster our children learn to recognize that “no” does not mean anything against their character, the faster they will not take criticisms and setbacks personally.
Teach them who the Real Boss is.  Teach them that all authority comes from God himself.  The way we parent was not our design, but God’s.  We are simply servants of God when we raise our children to His way and His word!  Good leaders must be Great followers of Christ. 

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Speaker 1: 0:09

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Speaker 2: 0:50

Welcome to Rock Solid Families podcast. This is Murrow Hutchinson, alongside of Linda Hutchinson. Guess who's got the tan this week, baby?

Speaker 1: 0:57

How was Florida? It was pretty good.

Speaker 2: 0:59

It was pretty good. It started a little cool, but it warmed right up. My goal was to not wear long pants at any time and I made it.

Speaker 1: 1:10

One day I was a little cold, so, if you're just now tuning in to us for the first time, we've been taking turns and working remotely with my dad visiting my dad. So when I went I brought one pair of pants and one switcher and I wore that puppy for three days. I was like maybe I should wash it, and sure enough, the sun came out and I didn't have to put it back on again.

Speaker 2: 1:31

I was a little bit luckier than that when it comes to the weather, so it was all good, but now we're back in the saddle.

Speaker 1: 1:37

It actually was, I thought, very productive. I don't know how you use your time, but I really felt like not just spending some time with my dad, but I got some work done.

Speaker 2: 1:46

I work from eight to 12 every day, and after that I said no.

Speaker 1: 1:49

I'm done, and so the afternoons I did my stuff. But we're back at it and we're in this beautiful. We got snow.

Speaker 1: 1:57

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Speaker 2: 2:39

But what are we talking about today? I'm right, you remember Tom Brokoff.

Speaker 1: 2:43

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 2:44

Yeah, the news guy? Yeah, Right. So he was hired out of the news world and his book was the Greatest Generation, and the Greatest Generation was about the World War II generation, right, yeah.

Speaker 1: 2:55

Did you read that book?

Speaker 2: 2:57

No, but I heard about it and so, but our parents are of that generation, right, and so, and folks a little bit before our parents, even, and so I have at least looked at this topic today, at this point, and I hope we're not done writing this book. Okay, I would like, I want to change this title, but right now we're looking at the saddest generation. We're looking at the saddest generation and this is these are you know what we would think of? Those are entitled children, that they seem to have it all, but they're becoming the most saddest generation of modern times.

Speaker 2: 3:32

Yeah, and guys we're pointing this out because we're seeing it on a regular basis walk into our office. We're seeing teenagers and young adults that are walking in and it's just kind of mind blowing because the hope for many of them has already been stolen and they're just young, right. I mean, you're supposed to have stupid, blind hope when you're that young, right? And so already we see this, and so the question might be what went wrong? And, as we always do, we talk about what's wrong, but then we're not going to spend time pointing fingers, because that's just a waste we're going to. We want to get to some solutions, some some things that we can stop the handicapping.

Speaker 1: 4:11

So we see a lot of Gen Z come into our office, okay, so do you know the newest generation, what it's called?

Speaker 2: 4:18

Yeah, I just heard it the other day.

Speaker 1: 4:21

We're starting over again, because we had Z right.

Speaker 1: 4:24

So it's generation alpha, alpha, alpha, and so 2010 to 2024, kids, kiddos, born this year are going to be in generation alpha, but the Gen Z is what we're talking about the teenagers, the young adults who are just 14 and over, who are just feeling depressed, anxious kind of feeling, hopeless feeling, you know, like they are missing out on the FOMO thing, missing out on fear of missing out. And so we're really talking about how did we get here, how did we get here to the saddest generation, which is what we see, and really, honey, you have a verse that kind of goes along with maybe a little hint of where we're going.

Speaker 2: 5:03

Well, it starts off with the idea of how did we get here? And the idea that we've gotten here because and all of our good intention I don't think anybody started with ill or bad intention, and that was we want to give our kids a better life than what we had. We want to give them what they want, right, and so by doing this, it's gotten to a point where we've created a lot of kiddos that think they are the most important thing out there. And so Philippians two, three through four reminds us a little bit about how we should be operating. It says do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility, value others above yourself, each of you considering the needs of others. And so just the idea that you're going to take the time and you're gonna look at somebody and say you know what? You're at least equal to me in service and I need to consider what I'm doing here and how it might impact you, versus well, I really don't care about you, it's I've got to get what I've got to get.

Speaker 1: 6:06

Yeah, I've told this story before.

Speaker 1: 6:08

But I was just sitting around at a sports game with another parent waiting for our child to be done and she mentioned to me that she intentionally was becoming a yes mom because her mom was a no mom.

Speaker 1: 6:22

And so and I asked her, like what does that mean, you know? And she's like, oh, I've, I made a commitment before we had children that whatever my children wanted, if I physically can possibly do it, I was gonna do it and I think she wanted me to pat her on the back. But I was really saddened by that because that was really gonna set up our children and their children for that disappointment of well, of course I want that and I've talked to employers before, hon, many employers who are just blown away by the Gen Z who come in and they wanna be making those six figures the first month of work and when they don't get it they'll just hop to another job or they'll quit because they are disappointed, they're not making the money like their superior is or their manager is, and it's like, man, we are setting up our children to be the saddest generation. Yeah, yeah, unfulfilled.

Speaker 2: 7:11

And ill-equipped right so ill-equipped, and so I think part of what we're talking about today is we thought we were equipping them with more things and more stuff and more opportunities than ever before, and they are now more handicapped, and so one of the outcomes that we see I'm in the middle right now of reading Brain Energy by Dr Charles Palmer and he's taught I mean through and through. He's talking about the elevation and depression, anxiety, adhd, bipolar and really across mostly the 25s and unders is really where this is popping hardest, and so the idea of why in the world, and what should be the greatest times, are we suffering with the worst?

Speaker 2: 8:02

And so I really think, honey, it comes down. There's a lot of reasons, so we don't wanna just like, well, it's just because of this. But, in a nutshell, people's expectations are not being met, and when I say that they expect that they'll get what they want, no-transcript yeah, they expect it. So when you have a high expectation and we always talk about how you should have high expectations well, if you have a high expectation of you getting what you want, then you're going to be really disappointed when you walk out of your parents' house and realize this isn't working for me.

Speaker 1: 8:36

Yeah, Well, of course we're living in that microwave, Google anything you need right at this minute generation, and so we have. We've kind of set ourselves up for disappointment. You mentioned brain energy, which I'm going to start reading. That one. I got a couple that I'm working on right now.

Speaker 2: 8:51

It's pretty cool. Yeah, it's very good.

Speaker 1: 8:53

The collapse of parenting. I'm reminded by Dr Leonard Sacks where it talks about, you know, parents kind of collapsed, this structure that their parents and grandparents had set up for them, thinking that they were doing their kids a favor, and it actually has handicapped them and it'll equip them, and so we, you know, and we've got struggles, obviously, with a higher divorce rate and blended families and co-parenting, and addiction and depression, and COVID huh, and just kind of threw a gigantic gasoline on that fire that was already smoldering.

Speaker 2: 9:26

Yeah, it didn't start the fire.

Speaker 1: 9:28

No, but man, it definitely accelerated. It was an accelerant. And so we saw this huge epidemic come in, especially in our office of the Gen Z's that, you know little is almost. You know 10, 12, 13 years old that are just feeling hopeless and I'm like, wow, that's just so sad.

Speaker 2: 9:44

All right, let's change the chapter. Okay, let's get out of the hopelessness and let's empower. Let's talk about the things that we can do now and in our upcoming days of parenting, how we can view things differently and approach our kids differently, all right, so these are seven. Get your, get your pencil out, get your paper out, get your phone out, whatever you want to take notes in and say these are seven ways to not handicap our kiddos.

Speaker 1: 10:09

Seven ways to not handicap. So, first of all, you got to name your target. You got to plan a strategy. Okay, we've talked about this so many times before, about what are your values right? If you're going to shoot for nothing, you're bound to hit it. So you've got to lay out what it is you want for your children, what is it what for your family, and lay it out and make a plan to get that.

Speaker 2: 10:29

Yeah, and when? The next one point two is don't handicap your children, and you know, we've learned this with our own parents and one of the things you learn as you're taking care of your parents, as they're aging, is you feel like you want to do everything for them, like oh dad, don't worry about that, I'll get up and I'll get your your coffee.

Speaker 2: 10:48

I'll get up and do this and the you know people in that business of serving old people will say no, no, no, no, don't you dare get up and get your dad's coffee. If he's still capable, have him go do it, because that is the thing that keeps him going and moving, because he's got to get up and exercise and so on. And so the same thing actually starts with our kids. When your kids are capable, you have to start to back off doing for them. And we talk all the time, hon, that this really starts between the ages of two and three. This really starts when we're we're seeing hey, our kid is capable of picking some of those toys up off of the floor, and at that point it's no longer well, I'll just go pick them up because it's faster. No, it's like no, you go pick them up. And so when, when your kiddo is capable of doing these things, then you bring them on at the level that they're capable of.

Speaker 1: 11:37

Yeah, so uh. John Roseman, who we've had on our you know, best-selling author and psychologist um, he wrote so many books and one of them he was talking about I think it's a parenting by the book, and when we had him on, he was talking about the, the grandma's three Rs and the responsibility, the resourcefulness and the respect. Those are things that we can expect out of our kids. We don't have to handicap them and do everything for them.

Speaker 1: 12:02

We don't have to tie their shoes every time it done, done and then we don't have to fix everything that gets broken, encouraging them to find a way to do it. So respect, responsibility and resourcefulness are the three Rs grandma's Rs, he called them.

Speaker 2: 12:17

Um, that helps you not to handicap your children. Yeah, the number three point or uh number three way way not to handicap is uh, I just kind of threw up the phrase no blood, no foul. Okay, and my dad used to say that, oh yeah, and so in other words stop rescuing your kiddo from every little bump, bruise and pain or fall or scuff Again. This is tape been taken to the extreme. So please hear me. We're not saying push your kids into trouble.

Speaker 2: 12:47

What we're saying is is let them fall, let them get scuffed up, let them cry, let them have some pain, because that is a far better instructor than anything else you can do to make sure your kid got their way All right. So let them experience it and again, no blood.

Speaker 1: 13:05

Yeah, you know what deal with a kiddo? It's not that big of a deal. But we're not just talking about physical challenges, we're talking about emotional ones too. So, rescuing them emotionally, whether it be coming to their defense with a teacher or stepping in with a coach or you know let them try to work through those difficulties in those conflicts and their own, so that they become stronger. They're working those conflict muscle, conflict resolution muscles, and if we keep saving them, no blood, no foul, I mean, if we keep saving them, we're not going to really help them in the long run.

Speaker 2: 13:36

Yeah, the fourth point. This comes from Jesus.

Speaker 1: 13:40

Jesus says I did not come to be served.

Speaker 2: 13:43

but to serve yeah.

Speaker 2: 13:44

If you really want to help your kids at the earliest of age, as you want to teach them the absolute importance of serving others. It's the only function that we all have that keeps us going. Guys, I don't care whether you're you're owning and operating a business, I don't care whether you're a school teacher, it doesn't matter. You have to do it in the way that you're going to be serving somebody, because people you are not a king and people are not going to bow down and serve you, right. And so the idea here is from the earliest of age, you teach them how to serve.

Speaker 2: 14:14

You give them opportunities to serve, and this is, in particular, like and I'm not going to just point this out for the sake of bashing anyone I don't know how sometimes parents of single children only child raise them without or with, how difficult it is to get them to serve because it's so easy to serve an only child.

Speaker 1: 14:38

Yeah, because there's no one else to compete with. Yeah, yeah, To do for.

Speaker 2: 14:42

You parents of their only children, have to work even harder. To say, I gotta find ways to help my kid know that they've got to be a servant to others.

Speaker 1: 14:53

I was thinking you're gonna say single parent. It's hard because single parents who are in this mindset of I gotta do, I gotta do it's exhausting.

Speaker 1: 15:01

And so one quick example is at the dinner table when we leave, when we get up and we're done, everybody helps. We're clearing the table, we're putting things in the fridge, we're putting things in the dishwasher, we're rinsing them off, we're wiping the table. No one leaves the kitchen until we're all done. And that just teaches like, hey, we're a team and I don't care who cooked it or who cleaned, but we're all gonna do it together. And that just mentality of, like you said, I'm the king and you're here to serve me. I have so many parents that do that for their kids. It's just not healthy.

Speaker 2: 15:31

Yeah, you're ready for number five. Sure Number five.

Speaker 2: 15:34

This is something that we see in the schools often, but this is the idea of what's praised is repeated, and so if there's a particular behavior that you're seeking and you're wanting, you've gotta quickly get your eyes on it, see it, recognize it and you praise it. Okay, and so if your kiddos are doing something well, then you want to make sure that you say, hey, you know what, that was really nice that you did that. Or I really appreciate that you helped out here with this. And so you do not have to give them a reward of toys, money, food. You don't have to do that, you just say you know what? I greatly appreciate that.

Speaker 1: 16:15

And false praise really is not healthy either. Like don't inflate them into something like, oh, you really failed great at that test. You want to really praise things besides grades. We've talked about this in the other schools or in other shows before. We want to praise the effort, because the kids can just go cheat, they can go sneak those grades somehow and get those A's, and if you keep praising that and that's what you need and that's what you want. But show them that the effort and the attitude, those are the things you praise okay, not that they're pretty, but that they take care of themselves or they're kind to other people. Praise the qualities in people that are really not just surface stuff but, in the long run are gonna be more beneficial.

Speaker 2: 17:01

Yeah, all right, number six. This one just drives me crazy.

Speaker 1: 17:06

It drives me crazy. I was telling you about that story, yeah.

Speaker 2: 17:08

Yeah, and so this is a no is not a curse word all right, we're gonna get hate mail for this one.

Speaker 2: 17:16

I don't care because it's so bad. I mean, this came from our generation and just the generation a little prior to us buying into some of that 70s and 80s psychology of that. You should never frame anything up in the negative to your kids. You should always bring it back around and frame it in the positive. And here's why this is not good. The world does not really care about your negative or your positive, they you're going to get taught lessons, all right. You're going to get a no in life whether something doesn't work out for you. You didn't get what you wanted, it didn't come your way. No is part of the reality. It's part of it's part of the balance of how you, you grow and learn all right and so no, you don't have to yell and scream the no.

Speaker 2: 18:04

Okay, you don't have to be a jerk about the no, but you should actually allow your kids to experience, to know. Mom, can I have some extras candy before dinner?

Speaker 1: 18:14

No, no, you can't do that and don't negotiate.

Speaker 1: 18:18

We've talked about this before a lot. Don't negotiate like well, I tell you what, how about if we don't eat it now? But after like no, just say no, sorry babe, we're not, we're not having candy before dinner. Yeah, and so you don't have to explain yourselves. This is just to inform them what the rule is okay. And so when you explain to a child, a bunch of you know Like almost apologize for what you're doing or ask permission. You really handicap a child, thinking like they're the center of the tension and they get to call the shots.

Speaker 2: 18:48

As a eight-year-old, Guys, here's something you got to remember. We all need physical strength, we need mental strength, but we need emotional strength, and no is the weight that we pump to get emotional Strength all right. In other words, if we're always told yes, we have no friction in our emotional fabric, and so when it finally does get pulled and is taught, it rips and it tears. Now here's what's interesting kids don't want to hear no, but parents are also saving themselves from having to say the no, because many of our parents owned the emotional distress that their kids were experiencing because of the no factor. And so it's like this is we have to use the no and the yes in a good balance so that we Constantly build the emotional integrity and strength of our kids. So, please, you don't hesitate and you use the negative as well as the positive right now again there's the.

Speaker 2: 19:49

The pendulum springs was swings widely right. So we're not talking about beating our kids up all the time with the negative, but they do need to experience the negative Well off when they're young so that when they get into their teens and later they go, you know what this is just another bump in the road.

Speaker 1: 20:05

I've got this, so I'm gonna throw a little Disclaimer in there, because I was just hearing this recently on a talk show that I listened to of a team of Therapists and I can't remember which one it was. It's on new life live. I listen to this daily podcast. It's a counseling podcast, but they were talking about, even when you are saying no or setting limits or disciplining, that there would be this ah, a, w, e, and they said that A stands for affection. Okay, you still love on your child, you still give them a hug, you still put them to tuck them into bed, even when you're disciplining and saying no, the W is warmth.

Speaker 1: 20:43

That I'm not being this ogre and this nasty person that just pushes you away like no you know, and so the warmth, that you feel like sorry, buddy, not gonna do it tonight, but come, you know, we can read a book tonight or whatever. And then the E is encouragement. Okay, and so A W E that we should always really strive to have this all in our home where our children feel loved and accepted and warm and encouraged, even when we are setting limits and we're saying no and not things like that.

Speaker 2: 21:12

So yeah, I just thought that was cool. I like the idea because, at the end of the day, your job as a parent is to do these discipline measures, encourage your kid, but to maintain the relationship. If you're delivering the no with a sledgehammer, you eventually harden the kid's heart and so the later relationship where you really do need to get some work done on some hard issues. They've already shut you off and so I need to deliver that heavy no with a lighter touch in terms of just like hey, I still love you, buddy.

Speaker 2: 21:45

You know I mean, that's what a good father does. I always think about that. It's just like you know, when my dad delivered the hammer he also always came background and expressed the love for us kids, and so that's what kept the relationship going, so that later on in the years we could still hey, we never second guess whether we could talk with dad.

Speaker 1: 22:05

Now, which reminds me of an equation that we've used a lot of times before rules minus relationship, equal rebellion. So if you have the rules like no, you can't do this and you can't do that, and there's no relationship, you don't have the awe factor, then you are gonna have rebellion, you are gonna have pushback, and so we gotta have one with the other, and so what we're saying is but let's not handicap our kids by throwing it all you know together, thinking this is how I love them, this is the best thing for them, because, as you said at the top of the show, this is the saddest generation we've ever really had.

Speaker 2: 22:38

Yeah, okay. And our seventh point to help you not handicap your kiddos and this is a little bit of a contradiction in one of our trainings and that is, we do a training called who's the boss and it's all about the idea that you and the home are the boss. But that's technically not quite right. Because we do that we kind of took God out of the picture, because we do that lesson as a generic lesson, all right, it has to be secular, yeah it is a secular part, but teaching your kids who the real boss is in life and this is the idea that you know.

Speaker 2: 23:14

This is God himself. God designed the play of family and parenting and how we raise kiddos up, all right. So the idea that you have to resort to yourself of saying I'm the boss, you have to listen to me At some point in time, that's going to be questioned right, and at some point in time you're going to have to say you know what. To be real honest with you, I'm just doing as I have been instructed to do. I'm following a much greater plan, something bigger than me, and so giving credit to God here that, hey, listen, we are working and pleasing God and how we parent.

Speaker 1: 23:54

And so again, on almost every show, we are talking about the top three priorities that we want you to live by. We want you to teach, we want you to model for your children, and that is God is number one.

Speaker 2: 24:04

He is our boss.

Speaker 1: 24:05

He is the king of kings, the Lord of lords on the throne, and then each other as spouse and self. You've got to show them that we're not going to let you rise into this entitlement OK, where you're enabled and, just, you know, really spoiled, to a point where it's not healthy and you're not going to be happy in the long run. And then, after your marriage, then comes the children, and so when you put those top three and the big rocks in first man, the work and friends and fun, all those things kind of fall into the right place. And so yeah, god is the boss.

Speaker 2: 24:37

Yeah, I always like the idea.

Speaker 2: 24:39

hon, we've talked about this before how important it is that we teach kids to be leaders and leaders and leaders and the idea here you and I know and older folks start to recognize good leaders can only be great leaders if they're great followers of Christ. Ultimately, I mean, you can get somebody with a dynamic personality and just a magnetism about them and just the intellect and all that stuff, but if they're leading you in the wrong direction, yeah, that doesn't make them a great leader. And so great leaders have to have to have a bigger boss in mind.

Speaker 1: 25:10

Who was the San Francisco quarterback that just lost the Super Bowl? Brock Purdy, that is. That is the perfect example of that and like he leads that team and he took them to the Super Bowl. But at the end of the day, when he was interviewed after the Super Bowl loss, he was basically saying, in the grand scheme of things, this doesn't make the top three and I surrender and I am under the Lordship of the Jesus Christ and man. That was such a testimony and I am so thankful that there are people out there like Brock Purdy that he would just remember who's the boss.

Speaker 2: 25:43

Yeah, all right guys. So, as we wrap things up and we want to give you guys the challenge and the challenge is just this, you know, are you handicapping your kids? So, have a good look around your, your parenting in your house this week and think about how you actually are hurting your kids, not in the short run. In the short run, you feel like, yeah, you know, I'm getting in what they want they're happy with me, yeah.

Speaker 2: 26:08

But in the long run, are you really equipping them to have physical strength, spiritual strength, mental strength, emotional strength? I mean, are they going to have that fabric within them to be able to do the hard things that life's going to demand?

Speaker 1: 26:21

Yeah, and if you're struggling on how to do that, please give us a call. We would love to walk alongside you. This is what we do every day and we have got so many people out there who are really working the plan and they're doing the hard stuff, having the hard conversations, but really seeing such peace, such joy when we put those big rocks in first. So again, you can call us at 812-576-ROCK that's 812-576-7625. Or you can reach out to us at our website, rocksolidfamiliesorg.

Speaker 2: 26:51

All right, I also want to finish up by thanking our sponsors again. We want to thank Maxwell Construction, KC's Outdoor Solutions and the Ice House Restaurant for sponsoring the work that we do here on Rocksolid Families.

Speaker 1: 27:05

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Speaker 2: 27:08

Oh, don't forget yeah.

Speaker 1: 27:09

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Speaker 2: 27:36

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Speaker 1: 27:37

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All right. So thanks again for listening to Rocksolid Families podcast. Building a strong community one family at a time, make it a great day. Rocksolid Families wants to thank Maxwell Construction for sponsoring the Rocksolid Families podcast. For over 30 years, maxwell Construction has been a leader in turning dreams into realities building schools, banks, restaurants and many other commercial and public facilities. Maxwell Construction has made it their priority to not just build buildings, but to build into their community. So if you have any construction needs, call them at 812-537-2200.

Speaker 2: 28:58

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