A Dad Must Ask For Help
The Daily Dad
Daily Dad
4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2020
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
"If your kid was struggling, you’d want them to tell you, right? If they didn’t understand something in class, you’d want them to ask the teacher. If your neighbor needed something, you wouldn’t mind if they mentioned it. If your spouse was overwhelmed and needed a hand, you’d expect them to come to you.
Okay. But what about you? Are you okay?" Find out what you should do when you need help on today's Daily Dad Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you with your |
| 0:14.1 | most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical |
| 0:20.3 | wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world. |
| 0:24.5 | Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:33.1 | A dad must ask for help. |
| 0:36.6 | If your kid was struggling, you'd want them to tell you, right? If they didn't |
| 0:41.3 | understand something in your class, you'd want them to ask the teacher. If your neighbor needed |
| 0:46.3 | something, you wouldn't mind if they mentioned it. If your spouse was overwhelmed and needed a |
| 0:51.3 | hand, you'd expect them to come to you. Okay, but what about you? |
| 0:55.2 | Are you okay? More importantly, are you asking for help when you need it and when you are not okay? |
| 1:02.1 | Remember, we have to model the behavior we want our kids to learn. So if you refuse to ask for directions |
| 1:08.1 | when you're obviously lost, what does that say? If you refuse to admit |
| 1:11.8 | that you don't know something or you make up an answer to a question instead of going to look for it, |
| 1:17.3 | what does that show them about figuring stuff out and learning? Why would they be okay being |
| 1:22.2 | vulnerable with a doctor or a therapist or with mom and dad if dad is regularly showing them |
| 1:27.0 | that this is something to |
| 1:27.9 | resist, that it's something the person they admired is ashamed to do themselves. But this is about more |
| 1:33.5 | than even that. You can't be a good dad if you're hurting and not getting help. You can't be a good |
| 1:39.3 | dad all by yourself. None of us are islands or invincible orknowing to do our best. We have to be able to |
| 1:45.9 | learn, to rely on others, to admit mistakes, to ask for help. Show them that it's okay to ask for |
| 1:52.5 | help, be better for them by asking for it. Thanks for listening to the Daily Dad podcast. Please |
| 1:59.9 | leave us a review. |
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