Jessica Lahey, Angel Parham, Brett McKay, and Dr. Harvey Karp On Parenting and Stoicism
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🗓️ 30 December 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Today’s episode features clips from some of the best interviews about parenting in 2020. Ryan talks to Jessica Lahey, Angel Parham, Brett McKay, and Dr. Harvey Karp about letting your kids fail, reading the classics to them, teaching them hope and decency, and how to approach parenting from a Stoic perspective.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoke Podcast early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today. |
| 0:12.8 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic. For each day, we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, |
| 0:19.3 | insight, wisdom necessary for living good life. Each one of these passages is based on the |
| 0:25.2 | 2000 journal philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoic.com. |
| 0:37.8 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another very special episode of the Daily Stoke Podcast. |
| 0:43.4 | Look, you may know I have another podcast that I do called Daily Dad. Another Daily email I do called Daily Dad. |
| 0:48.9 | I became a father in 2016 and as you can imagine, it's been one of the most challenging life-altering experiences that I've gone through. |
| 0:57.9 | And it challenges you philosophically more than anything else. And the Stoics were fathers and mothers. |
| 1:06.9 | And husbands and wives and all the other sort of familial positions we can hold in this life. |
| 1:12.9 | And when Marcus says it stares you in the face, nothing is so well suited to philosophy as a lawyer in right now. |
| 1:19.9 | I think being a father, being a mother, being a parent is a great example of that. |
| 1:23.9 | And you know, Senka had a son, a petitist, adopted a boy. Marcus really said, and many children. |
| 1:32.9 | Let's just say he was more successful in raising some than others. |
| 1:36.9 | Parenting is a theme throughout stoicism. And it's a choice we make that comes with a number of duties and responsibilities and obligations. |
| 1:45.9 | And philosophically, I think it calls us to exhibit those same standard four stoic virtues of courage and justice and wisdom and temperance. |
| 1:55.9 | And so today's episode is some of the best insights we have on parenting from some of the stoic fellow travelers and philosophers that I've interviewed over the last few years. |
| 2:08.9 | We have Jessica Lehue, whose wonderful book, The Gift of Failure, is a must read. |
| 2:13.9 | We talked to Dr. Parham, who's an expert on teaching the classics to kids. |
| 2:18.9 | And actually, I think this interview is a great way to learn the classics, whether you're interested. |
| 2:22.9 | I know personally, I'm in the middle of reading some Shakespeare to my old son. |
| 2:26.9 | And I'm learning, as I teach, as Senka says, I talk to the great Brett McKay, founder of Art of Manliness. |
| 2:32.9 | And when we talk about teaching your kids hope and decency and these sort of principles that don't change. |
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