Ignore it, Do Your Best
The Daily Dad
Daily Dad
4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2022
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Ryan talks about why you have to tune out what other parents are doing.
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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. |
| 0:14.7 | 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. |
| 0:34.7 | If you want to improve your relationship with your kids, one of the best ways you can do that is by improving your most important relationship, which is your relationship with yourself, whether it's body issues, whether it's eating issues, whether it's childhood traumas from early in life, whether it's a work addiction, a drug addiction, whether it's how you see |
| 0:57.0 | yourself and that affects how you act in your marriage, right? Dealing with your own issues will |
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| 1:45.0 | Ignore it. Do your best. This is hardly the golden age of good parenting. We have parents |
| 1:52.2 | bribing their kids into college. We have parents using their kids as weapons in the culture |
| 1:57.1 | war. We have parents turning their job over to screens. |
| 2:01.9 | And of course, the 1950s, indeed no era, was as idyllic as nostalgia makes it out to be. |
| 2:07.6 | But still, few would argue that we've finally gotten it together as a society. |
| 2:13.7 | Few can convincingly argue that our kids are being raised in a perfect world. |
| 2:19.4 | But here's the thing. |
| 2:20.2 | None of that matters. |
| 2:22.0 | None of that changes your job. |
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