If You Want Your Kids To Respect You
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🗓️ 6 April 2021
⏱️ 3 minutes
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“Every parent wants to be respected. They want to be listened to. They want their advice to be taken seriously. They want to be looked up to. And how do far too many of us try to get these things from our kids? By endless words. By force. By fear. By simply assuming it’s ours by right.”
Ryan explains how you can truly earn the admiration of 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 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. |
| 0:30.9 | If you want your kids to respect you, every parent wants to be respected, they want to be listened to. They want their advice to be |
| 0:39.1 | taken seriously. They want to be looked up to. And how do far too many of us try to get these |
| 0:44.1 | things from our kids? By endless words, by force, by fear, by simply assuming it's ours by right. |
| 0:51.2 | You will earn the respect of all men if you begin by earning the respect of yourself, |
| 0:56.1 | Musonius Rufus reminds us. If you want your kids to respect you, respect yourself. Be worthy of respect. |
| 1:03.8 | Just think about it for a second. Why would they respect advice that you don't live by? Why would they |
| 1:08.9 | admire you when you're not living up to your own potential? |
| 1:12.1 | Why would they look up to you when you yourself are dealing with self-esteem issues when you |
| 1:16.4 | struggle with imposter syndrome? Get your stuff straight. Be the parent you know you can be, |
| 1:22.2 | be the person you know you can be. The rest will follow. And if it doesn't, well, then at least you'll be strong |
| 1:29.8 | enough to deal with it. My book, Lies of the Stoics, The Art of Living from Zeno to Mark |
| 1:39.5 | Surrealis, is on sale right now for $1.99 everywhere e-books are sold. Lives of the Stoics is modeled off Plutarch. |
| 1:48.5 | It contains 26 biographies of the most important Stoics from history. I'm really proud of it. |
| 1:53.6 | It debuted at number one on the bestseller list. As far as I understand, it's the only book that has all |
| 1:58.4 | the Stoics in one place focusing on what they did, not just what they said. You can pick it up for $1.99 as an e-book. It's not going to get cheaper than that. If you're looking for some great men and women to study, this is the book. It will never be cheaper than it is right now. Check it out on Amazon, iBooks, Cobo, wherever you get your e-books, |
| 2:18.0 | check that out. |
| 2:18.7 | It's $1.99, but only for a couple days. |
| 2:22.4 | So check out Lives of the Stoics. |
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