Classics Are The Key
The Daily Dad
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4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2021
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
“You like stuff. your kids like different stuff. It’s a conflict as old as parenthood itself. Music, food, art--the generational divide is real. Does this mean we can’t even connect? No, of course not. There is something we should always be able to enjoy together--the stuff that transcends generations: The classics.”
Ryan explains why you should bond with your children over things that will stand the test of time, 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 |
| 0:12.3 | with your most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, |
| 0:17.7 | by practical wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world. |
| 0:22.8 | Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:31.8 | Classics are key. You like stuff. Your kids like different stuff. It's a conflict as old as parenting itself. |
| 0:41.2 | Music, food, art, the generational divide is real. But does that mean we can't even connect? Of course not. |
| 0:49.5 | There is something we should always be able to enjoy together, the stuff that transcends generations, |
| 0:56.2 | the classics. |
| 0:57.7 | Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich was recently talking about the kind of music that he and his |
| 1:02.5 | sons have connected over. |
| 1:04.2 | I'm lucky, he said, I have three boys. |
| 1:06.6 | Most of them still listen to a lot of ACDC, Guns and Roses, Black Sabbath, System of a Down, |
| 1:12.1 | rage against Machine. He said, good quality stuff. We can share a rage against the machine song |
| 1:17.8 | on the drive to school, which always sets a mood for the day. What he's talking about is perennial |
| 1:24.0 | stuff, stuff that's crossed over from being of the moment to being timeless. |
| 1:29.4 | What's new is often part of an inexplicable trend that will come and then go, but not soon |
| 1:34.5 | enough. This is the stuff that makes parents uncomfortable. In fact, part of why kids like it is |
| 1:39.8 | because it makes parents uncomfortable. Leave that stuff alone. Leave it to them. |
| 1:45.3 | What you can bond over is the stuff that history and time have already done their work on, |
| 1:50.3 | the stuff that's endured, whether it's reading Kipling's poems, as we've talked about, |
| 1:54.8 | or rocking out to ACDC. |
| 1:56.7 | Find a way to introduce your kids to the stuff that is good enough for them to one day |
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