Daily Dad on Talking to Your Kids About Death
The Daily Dad
Daily Dad
4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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On today’s episode of the podcast Ryan talks about the moment when his son asked him if he is afraid to die, the importance of valuing your time with you kids, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast, where we provide one lesson every single day to help you with your most important job, being a parent. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from |
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| 1:41.5 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. |
| 1:43.0 | Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Dad podcast. I was tucking my oldest in to bed last night. And we usually read a couple books. And then he likes to watch a little video. We watch the video together and we were talking about it. And as he's sort of |
| 2:02.2 | drifting off, he says, Dad, are you afraid to die? And I was like, whoa, okay, that's, that's, |
| 2:10.7 | you know, I don't know if I'd rather be asked the sex question or that question, but it's not |
| 2:15.1 | the question I was hoping to ask when he's supposed to be |
| 2:19.0 | falling asleep. And it's just such a mortifying, it's such a sobering topic to talk about |
| 2:26.2 | someone who's still young. He's not even six. Sort of like, where did that come from? What are you |
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