Help Them Become Who They Are Meant to Be
The Daily Dad
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4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Our kids have so comparatively little experience, so little wisdom, so little confidence. It’s insane. It’s more insane still that we confuse and disorient them with our own expectations and projections…even though we know how much our own parents confused us in this regard.
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| 0:32.3 | Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast, where we provide one lesson every single day to help you with your |
| 0:39.8 | most important job, being a parent. I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient |
| 0:46.9 | philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from parents just like you all over the world. Thank you for listening, |
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| 1:27.3 | It seems like it would be easy, but as we have found out in the course of our own lives, |
| 1:32.2 | it's one of the hardest things in the world. Figuring out who you are, figuring out what your |
| 1:37.6 | purpose is. Even now, with decades on this planet as parents and professionals, we are still |
| 1:42.5 | figuring it out, still trying to get |
| 1:44.7 | closer each day. And yet, as a culture, we continue to expect our kids to already know the answers |
| 1:50.4 | to questions that we're still struggling with. We pressure them to make enormous decisions at a |
| 1:56.3 | preposterously young age, what their hobbies and passions will be, what college to go to, what to |
| 2:01.1 | major in, whether they should take on debt to do it, whether to start saving to buy a house or a ring, |
| 2:06.5 | and how much? Never mind that we apply this pressure without giving them the space to consider whether |
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