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The Daily Dad

How To Teach Your Kids To Be Brave

The Daily Dad

Daily Dad

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

4.6630 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Ryan asks you to think about what your actions are telling your children, 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 single day to help you with your most important job, being a parent.

0:14.0

I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from

0:23.4

parents just like you all over the world. Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

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1:41.7

How to teach your kids to be brave.

1:45.3

We can imagine, like all parents, he told his daughter fairy tales.

1:49.6

He read her books.

1:50.4

He encouraged her when she doubted herself.

1:53.5

He told her to stand up for others and what's right.

1:57.0

But obviously, it goes without saying that the most impactful way that our recent podcast guest,

2:02.5

Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, taught his daughter about courage, was the same way his own

2:08.4

immigrant father taught him. By example, by defying the president, by not being scared of the

2:15.9

attacks from the craven and the cowardly, by sitting in

2:19.2

front of the camera and answering the hostile questions from self-aggrandizing senators,

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