5 Timeless Parenting Lessons from Abraham Lincoln
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4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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What can Abraham Lincoln, a Stoic at heart, teach modern parents? Ryan Holiday discusses lessons he's learned from the 16th President that he uses on a regular basis to raise his two young children.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Dad podcast, where on the weekends, we do a deeper dive |
| 0:08.4 | and how to get better at our most important job, being a parent. Sometimes in these episodes, |
| 0:13.9 | I talk to best-selling authors and elite performers and other guests, but lately I've also |
| 0:18.5 | been having conversations with my wife, Samantha, the co-parent of my two |
| 0:22.6 | boys. We do it over in the Daily Stoic studio here in Bastrop, Texas. She and I talk about things |
| 0:29.0 | that we're working on as parents, things that we're working on as people, and how we are supporting |
| 0:35.8 | each other, challenging each other, and like I said, trying to get |
| 0:40.3 | better at what we do. Guest or not, I hope you hear some ideas here that will help make you |
| 0:45.8 | a better parent. I was better for having the conversation. I hope you enjoy. |
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| 1:03.5 | Look, we don't control the world around us, but we control how prepared we are for the world around us. |
| 1:04.0 | We don't control what happened to us as kids, but we control whether we process it, how we |
| 1:10.6 | move on, how we respond to it. |
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| 1:53.0 | Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Dad podcast. Today we're going to do a deep |
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