Daily Dad and Nils Parker on Doing the Right Thing During the Pandemic

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Daily Dad

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

4.6 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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On today’s podcast Ryan talks to his friend and writing partner Nils Parker about Ryan’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, why it’s important to always try to do the right thing for your kids and family, the gap between classes and its impact on people’s response to the pandemic, 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.
0:46.8	As I've said, I think it's super important to introduce your kids to reading as early as possible
0:51.3	in their lives to help them fall in love with books. We're trying to raise readers, as we've said. Well, Radio has a virtual story time platform called Book Chat.
0:59.5	Book Chat lets you read your favorite award-winning books over video chat with your loved ones,
1:04.2	no matter how far apart you are. It's perfect during the pandemic. Perfect if you've got
1:09.3	grandparents on the opposite coast.
1:11.9	The radio library includes hundreds of books from publishers like Chronicle and Simon & Schuster.
1:16.9	He's got stories in English, Spanish, and French.
1:19.6	All of this can be yours for just $10 a month.
1:22.4	Up to four family members can be on the same book chat simultaneously,
1:26.2	letting you share a story with everyone
1:27.9	you want, and you can use book chat anywhere on your PC, laptop, tablet, phone. You can try
1:33.6	radio out for yourself with a 30-day trial here using the code daily on radio.com. That's
1:39.9	R-E-A-D-E-O.com to get 30 days of virtual storytime for free. Again, use code daily on
1:47.6	radio.com.
1:53.4	Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Dad podcast. During the week, we bring
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