Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Dad podcast. I wanted to

compile something today. As you know, we write these daily emails. And I feel like there's all

these things that you're supposed to do as parents, and we have a good intuitive sense of that.

But I try to think about the things I need to stop doing

that I shouldn't do, some parenting don'ts. So in today's episode, I'm compiling some of the best

lessons, ideas, insights that we've gotten, either from podcast guests or the emails over the

years, and compiled them into some parenting don'ts about not burdening them,

don't depriving them of this thing that really matters.

Don't give them this.

Don't hurry them along.

And don't wish for them to be anything but what they are.

I think you're really going to like this episode.

It's five parenting don'ts that I think are worth

ruminating on this weekend. Enjoy. Don't burden them. It seems dramatic. It seems powerful. It seems like the right thing to do.

The last words of John Dutton's father in the show Yellowstone were intended to give his son

purpose, a rule to follow always. Don't let them take it from you, son. He tells a younger

John as he's dying, not a goddamn inch. But what did this

well-meaning advice become? Became an immense burden, a terrible fate that condemned his son

and the subsequent generations of his family to conflict and misery, despite their enormous

wealth. Early on with Daily Dad, we told you a true story of Amanda Pearson and her daughter, Josephine.

Before she took her final breath in 1915, Pearson grabbed her daughter's hand and said,

Daughter, when I'm gone, if the Susan B. Anthony Amendment reaches Tennessee, promise me you'll take

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