It’s Never Too Late To Do This
The Daily Dad
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🗓️ 30 January 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
We’ve said before that it’s never too late. It’s never too late, as a parent, to follow your dreams—to show your kids that they can too. It’s never too late to start showing up. It’s never too late to deal with your demons. It’s never too late to change. Sooner is better of course, but it’s never too late.
It’s also never too late to do that thing we’ve been talking about a lot recently—repair. “Repair can happen ten minutes after a blowup, ten days later, or ten years later,” Dr. Becky Kennedy writes in Good Enough. “Never ever doubt the power of repair—every time you go back to your child, you allow him to rewire, to rewrite the ending of the story so it concludes in connection and understanding, rather than aloneness and fear.”
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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. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights |
| 0:24.0 | from parents just like you all over the world. Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:32.4 | It's never too late to do this. We said before that it's never too late, that it's never |
| 0:37.3 | too late as a parent to follow your dreams, to show your kids that they said before that it's never too late, that it's never too late as a parent |
| 0:38.2 | to follow your dreams, to show your kids that they can't too. It's never too late to start showing |
| 0:42.7 | up. It's never too late to deal with your demons. It's never too late to change. Sooner is better, |
| 0:48.2 | of course, but it's never too late. It's also never too late to do that thing we've been talking |
| 0:53.9 | a lot about recently. |
| 0:55.7 | Repair. Repair can happen 10 minutes after a blowout 10 days later or 10 years later, Dr. Becky |
| 1:01.8 | writes, and good enough, never ever doubt the power of repair. Every time you go back to your child, |
| 1:08.6 | you allow him to rewire, to rewrite the ending of the story so it concludes in connection and understanding rather than aloneness and fear. |
| 1:18.4 | Look, obviously sooner is better than later. Deferring repair is not without its consequences as our own relationships with their parents demonstrates. |
| 1:27.2 | At the same time, |
| 1:28.4 | aren't there conversations that they could have with us now? Things they could address, take ownership |
| 1:34.1 | of, apologize for that would mean quite a bit to us all these years later. It wouldn't magically |
| 1:39.1 | fix everything. It wouldn't erase the pain of needless delays, but it would make our relationship |
| 1:43.5 | better, wouldn't it? |
| 1:44.8 | But help us heal, help us feel loved, help us see them differently. |
| 1:49.3 | Well, it's not that different with your kids, and thankfully, less time has elapsed. |
| 1:52.9 | Whether that thing happened yesterday in the car two months ago during an argument or nine years ago when you were less experienced as a parent are still new to your sobriety, |
| 2:01.0 | you can go back to it. |
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