Daily Dad on the Unavoidable Reality of Parenting

The Daily Dad

Daily Dad

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

4.6 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan discusses the concept of facing reality and how different it becomes when you have kids, how much what we “want” doesn’t matter in the face of unavoidable reality, the obligation you have to your children and to society, and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you with your most important job being a dad.
0:15.2	These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world.
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1:35.3	productivity with delicious mushroom coffee. Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another weekend episode at the Daily Dad podcast. You might have seen this like virally video going around. It's like a TikTok and it's like a mom. I'm assuming it's Florida. I could have been Texas. But frankly, at this point, it could be so many different school districts in America. But it's a mom and she's crying. She's really upset.
2:01.3	And I empathize with how upset she is.
2:03.5	Because we all want our kids' lives to be good and easy and not, not, you know, negatively
2:13.0	impacted by stuff.
2:14.2	But she's like, she's protesting a mask mandate at a school.
2:17.4	And she's saying, she's protesting a mask mandate at a school. And she's saying,
2:19.0	I just want my kid to be able to see his teacher's face. And you've know my view on these
2:29.2	things. So this isn't one of those rants. What I'm, I empathize with that woman. I get it. It sucks. This sucks so bad for kids. It's not fair. It's not their fault. And it's not ideal. You might have seen the other, there's an edit of the video where it cuts to a nurse. I think, again, I think this is Florida. She's a nurse. She's not even like an ICU nurse. She's like a psychiatry
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