It’s Part of The Job
The Daily Dad
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4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2024
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Look, we get it: the iPad is a magical device. It can quiet even the craziest kid. It can take them into a world of learning and exploration that is literally miraculous. Best of all, most of this content is free!
Books on the other hand are not free and they take up so much space. Lugging them around can be a pain. You’re a grown-ass person. Do you really have to read about why dragons love tacos again? Or what Frodo is going to do with that stupid ring? And read it with the excited tone of a voice-over actor?
Yes. The answer is yes. Your house and your life must be filled with books. Good ones. Silly ones. Annoying ones. Used ones. New ones. Reading is part of the job. “A house without books is like a room without windows,” Horace Mann once said. “No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.”
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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 most important job being a dad. |
| 0:16.8 | These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world. |
| 0:24.4 | Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:33.2 | It's hard to be them. |
| 0:35.2 | It would be nice if the world was nice. |
| 0:37.4 | It would be nice if it was easy to be a kid. |
| 0:40.3 | Unfortunately, it isn't. |
| 0:41.3 | It's hard to be the smart kid. |
| 0:43.3 | As Stefan Zweig said, no one suffers more than the gifted pupil in an average world. |
| 0:48.3 | It's hard to be different. |
| 0:50.3 | Each of your children is different. |
| 0:51.3 | In fact, each one is totally and utterly unique. |
| 0:54.8 | If only they knew why and then how to embrace it. |
| 0:58.4 | It's hard to live with you. |
| 1:00.1 | What? |
| 1:01.1 | It was hard for you to live with your parents and you think you're a walk in the park. |
| 1:04.6 | Think again. |
| 1:05.9 | And let's not even get into this pandemic, this time of political polarization, the stresses of modern life on your |
| 1:12.3 | kids, as they struggle with the instinct to fit in and the desire to stand out. This isn't news to you, |
| 1:18.1 | undoubtedly, but it still all bears repeating because it's easy to forget. You think they have it so |
| 1:23.6 | easy with all this technology, with all this privilege, with all these things you do for them, |
| 1:27.7 | with all the things you never had. No, those are all the reasons it's hard to be them. Whether they |
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