Daily Dad and Nils Parker on Being Present With Your Kids

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Daily Dad

Society & Culture, Parenting, Kids & Family, Fatherhood, Ryan Holiday, Self-improvement, Wisdom, Relationships, Dads, Education

4.6 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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On today’s episode Ryan talks to his friend and writing partner Nils Parker about Ryan’s recent parenting struggles, the urgency of giving your kids your undivided attention, the delicate balance between emotional and financial costs, and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast. During the week, we bring you a daily meditation of the best parenting wisdom you can find drawing on history and philosophy and psychology and literature to inspire you to be a little bit better at the most important job you have.
0:22.5	And then on the weekends, I have sort of a wrap-up conversation with my friend, fellow dad,
0:27.3	and writing partner, Niels Parker.
0:29.0	We just explore what's going on in our lives, what we're struggling with as parents,
0:32.8	what we're doing well, what we want to do better, and what we've learned along the way,
0:36.9	and what we've learned in the way and what we've learned in
0:37.8	the last week. So let's go. Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast during the week. We give you
0:49.7	meditations on parenting, fatherhood, being better at what we call our most important job.
0:56.0	And then on the weekends, we dig into the same topics a little more in depth.
1:01.0	Most of the time I'm joined by my collaborator, Nealz Parker, and we talk about parenting.
1:07.5	He's got a very young son.
1:09.5	I've got two young sons and we get into it.
1:13.5	So, Neals, I was, let me, let me run a problem by you. Not really a problem, but something
1:20.1	I've been thinking about and I could get your advice on because we've written about it a bunch
1:24.1	of times in Daily Dad. I've been talking about, and I just wrote another email
1:28.4	about it. So part of this is clearly me trying to convince myself, which is that my philosophy is like,
1:34.9	if your kids want you to do something, uh, you should do it. I don't mean like, you know,
1:39.6	if they want candy, you have to give them candy. What I'm saying is like, if they want to do a puzzle,
1:44.1	you do a puzzle. If they want to, you have to give them candy. What I'm saying is like, if they want to do a puzzle,
1:51.1	you do a puzzle. If they want to jump in the pool and they want you to jump in the pool with them, you do it. Because who knows how long you'll get to do this, right? Because none of us,
1:58.8	none of us know how long we're here. And then I would say sort of on top of this, you know, who knows how long your kids are going to want to do things with you? So as long as they are asking, you should, you should be accepting. It's sort of like, I see it as your kid doesn't actually want to get in the
2:18.5	pool. The kid wants to do something with you. They're reaching out. And you can only shut them down
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