How To Raise Hopeful Kids | Ryan Holiday and Sharon McMahon

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

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

It's our job to show our kids that they have the power to instigate change within themselves and their communities, regardless of external circumstances. Sharon McMahon, author of The Small and the Mighty, talks with Ryan about how parents can instill hope in their kids and show them that making a difference is accessible.

Sharon is known as “America’s Government Teacher,” and after years as a high school government teacher, Sharon now runs the non-partisan, fact-based Instagram account @sharonsaysso. Sharon just released her book, The Small and the Mighty, where she proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn’t make it into the textbooks.

📚 You can grab signed copies of The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon at The Painted Porch.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Dad podcast, where on the weekends, we do a deeper dive and how to get better at our most important job, being a parent.
0:12.6	Sometimes in these episodes, I talk to bestselling authors and elite performers and other guests.
0:17.6	But lately, I've also been having conversations with my wife, Samantha, the co-parent of my two
0:22.6	boys. We do it over in the Daily Stoic studio here in Bastrop, Texas. She and I talk about things
0:29.0	that we're working on as parents, things that we're working on as people, and how we are
0:34.8	supporting each other, challenging each other, and like I said, trying to get better at what we do.
0:41.6	Guest or not, I hope you hear some ideas here that will help make you a better parent.
0:47.2	I was better for having the conversation. I hope you enjoy.
1:00.4	We were just on vacation with the in-laws down in Florida, and we brought a Kiwi kit with us. And when we dropped our kids off at my in-laws place, we left them with a Kiwi kit.
1:06.1	And we came back and they had this awesome thing that they had done together.
1:09.5	I didn't watch screens. They didn't
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2:12.1	Hey, it's Ryan.
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