Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you with your

most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical

wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world.

Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

Don't force your interests on them.

You had all these ideas about what being a father would be.

You looked forward to fixing cars together or watching your favorite movies

or taking them all to the places you loved as a kid.

This is wonderful and certainly it comes from the right place,

that you want to spend time with them,

that you have ideas for ways to connect and teach them,

but it's important that you're also open

to being led by who they are and what they want

and not just your own desires and ideas.

Sometimes we create expectations for our children

that come from a self-centered place,

says Madison Wickham, the founder of

Total Frat Move and a father when we interviewed him for Daily Dad. We loved baseball growing up,

so we want our kids to love baseball too. We get frustrated when they show indifference towards

the childhood activities we cherish. Remember, we have to treat each of our kids differently. We have to be flexible.

We have to encourage them to be who they can be and not what we want them to be. His advice is that

you don't force your interests on your children, observe them and identify what activities they

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