It’s About Being There… A Lot
The Daily Dad
Daily Dad
4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2020
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
"How do you get through to your kids? How do you show them what’s right? How can you make sure they know how much you care about them? That you’re there for them? The answer is simple: You can be there. A lot."
Ryan talks about why there's no substitute for your presence in your children's lives in 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 with your |
| 0:14.1 | most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical |
| 0:20.3 | wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world. |
| 0:24.5 | Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:33.3 | It's about being there a lot. |
| 0:35.9 | How do you get through to your kids? |
| 0:37.3 | How do you show them what's right? |
| 0:38.6 | How can you make sure they know how much you care about them, that you're there for them? |
| 0:43.5 | The answer is simple. You can be there, a lot. There's a joke that the word love is actually spelled |
| 0:50.3 | T-I-M-E, and it's true. We've talked about the importance of quantity over quality. |
| 0:56.8 | There will be less pressure on finding the words if you have an ongoing regular conversation |
| 1:01.8 | with your son. There will be less pressure on letting your daughter know you care if you are |
| 1:06.1 | showing her how much you care by your presence, by prioritizing your time with her over anything else. |
| 1:12.2 | A comedian gets better the more stage time they have. A baseball player gets better for every at bat. |
| 1:17.4 | A writer gets better for the hours they put in. And so it goes with any kind of mastery. |
| 1:22.4 | And so it goes with parenting. Put in the time. Be there. Being a great dad is not just about pivotal moments. It's not |
| 1:29.7 | this one instance where you reach them. It's not about this one split second where you save them |
| 1:34.3 | from stepping into traffic. It's not just providing for them or getting them into a great school |
| 1:39.1 | so they can get ahead in life. It might be also those things, but it is mainly and mostly day-to-day, T-I-M-E. |
| 1:48.0 | It's the model in each morning and each moment of what being a good person looks like. |
| 1:53.0 | It's the showing each time you see them that you care that they are important, that they are loved. |
| 1:57.8 | It's about being there a lot. |
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