Daily Dad on How Hard It Is to Be a Kid

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Daily Dad

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

4.6 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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On today’s podcast, Ryan talks about the difficulties that your children face, why it’s so important to put yourself in their shoes and try to remember how you felt as a child, how the pandemic has been even tougher on young kids, 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. Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily
0:50.9	Dad podcast. I want you to think about some moments of your childhood. Think about when you were
0:57.4	five, think about when you were 15, think about when you were in college, think about when you're in high
1:02.8	school, think about when you're in sixth grade or third grade or whatever. I want you to remember
1:08.1	not the sort of glowing childhood nostalgia, memory, positivity that we have.
1:18.3	I want you to remember, like, how hard it was to be you at that age.
1:25.5	And the frustrations that you felt about how little empathy or understanding
1:33.7	there was to be you at that age. When I think back to those moments, I think not only how
1:41.0	under how poorly understood I was, but I also think, I remember this sense that
1:50.5	it felt like my parents were there making it so much harder. And so that's something I've
1:58.2	been thinking about lately and I wanted to riff on in today's episode, which is that it's really hard to be a kid.
2:07.8	Like, just go to like a two-year-old or a three-year-old.
2:11.5	Like, think about all the things they're having to figure out, how to walk, how to talk, what they like, what they don't like.
2:19.8	You know, they're getting sick all the time. They're being told what to do all the time.
2:23.9	But then you just add on top of all of that that they can't even like see everything that's
2:29.8	happening. They have to constantly look up to see what's going on. They have this tiny, constrained
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