Embrace This Mindset
The Daily Dad
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4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2021
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
“You clean and the house is dirty. You do the dishes and then five minutes later, the sink is full again. Literally before you’ve even finished helping them put their toys away, they’re splayed out across the floor. The new clothes you just bought them are now filthy and frayed. This can drive you nuts. Or you can learn to love it.”
Ryan explains that raising is an art that shouldn’t be taken for granted on today’s Daily Dad podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you |
| 0:12.3 | with your most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, |
| 0:17.7 | by practical wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world. |
| 0:22.8 | Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:31.5 | Embrace this mindset. |
| 0:34.0 | You clean, and yet the house is dirty again. |
| 0:36.7 | You do the dishes, and then five minutes later, the sink is full again. |
| 0:40.3 | Literally, before you've even finished helping them put their toys away, they're spayed out across the floor. |
| 0:46.1 | The new clothes you just bought them are now filthy and frayed, and this can drive you nuts, where you can learn to love it. |
| 0:53.4 | In Tibet, Buddhist monks make beautiful mandala's out of sand. |
| 0:57.6 | They spend hours, even days, crafting these complex geometric designs, |
| 1:02.6 | only to wipe them clean and start over again as soon as they're finished. |
| 1:06.4 | Isn't that a way that we might see the work we do as parents? |
| 1:10.0 | It's not about cleaning the house. |
| 1:11.9 | It's about the mandala, an unending ephemeral process that we begin again and again and again. |
| 1:17.7 | They're toys, their clothes, the dishes. |
| 1:19.4 | These things are never done or clean or set. |
| 1:22.3 | No entropy is always at work. |
| 1:24.8 | Our kids are at work. |
| 1:26.1 | Their chaos and growth and needs are at work. |
| 1:29.0 | So we should not feel exasperated or frustrated by it. We should love the flow of it. It's not work |
| 1:34.5 | we're doing. It's art. Finish. To be finished would mean the end of this, the end of their |
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