Always Think About Why
The Daily Dad
Daily Dad
4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2021
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
“It’s not easy to do when they’re hitting or biting or waking up ten times a night. When they’re failing classes they’re more than capable of passing. When they get caught sneaking out. When they’re acting like a jerk.”
Ryan explains that there’s usually a reason behind everything your kids do, 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. |
| 0:33.3 | Always think about why. It's not easy to do when they're hitting or biting or waking up 10 times a night. |
| 0:40.5 | When they're failing classes, they're more than capable of passing. When they get caught sneaking out, |
| 0:45.6 | when they're acting like a jerk. But still, you have to stop and think, not about how angry they make you, |
| 0:51.7 | not about how you're going to punish them, not how you're going to solve whatever this problem is. You have to think about why. What's going on with them? |
| 1:00.3 | What's going on in their head? Because there's almost always a reason. As we've said before, |
| 1:05.6 | a lot of that reason is because they're hungry. But it could also be because they're scared or depressed. |
| 1:10.3 | Someone could be hurting them. |
| 1:11.8 | You could have unintentionally provided a bad example. Who knows? There is a reason for it. There is a logic |
| 1:18.1 | to their behavior. They'd love to explain it to you too. The only problem is most of the time |
| 1:22.8 | they don't understand it either. And no one has bothered to help them try. So stop, hold off reacting, think, |
| 1:29.4 | practice empathy, consider what it's like to be a kid. Recall what you wish your own parents |
| 1:34.3 | had asked you at your lowest, most fraught, most confused moment, and then give them that courtesy, |
| 1:39.2 | give them that compassion, see what happens. Thanks for listening to the Daily Dad podcast. Please leave us a review. |
| 1:48.0 | It helps. Tell your friends, share this with other dads. And of course, you can sign up for an email |
| 1:52.9 | version of this podcast at Daily Dad.com. |
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