Keep the Little Promises
The Daily Dad
Daily Dad
4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2020
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
"We tell our kids a lot of things.
We tell them that we love them. That we’ll support them no matter what. That they can come to us with anything.
We also tell them little things: We tell them we’ll be home by six. We tell them that if they clean up their toys they can have a treat. We tell them that sure, next time we’re here, we can do what they want. We tell them when they’re older, they can do this or that.
It’s not that we don’t mean those little promises; it’s just that because they’re small, we forget. Or we were really only saying them to distract them, or to change the subject. Because we were assuming they would forget, too."
Ryan describes why those little promises are so important, and why we must treat them as sacred, on 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 | Keep the little promises. |
| 0:35.5 | We tell our kids a lot of things. |
| 0:37.3 | We tell them that we love them. We tell them we'll support them no matter what, that they can come to us with anything. We also tell them little things. We tell them we'll be home by six. We tell them that if they clean up their toys, they can have a treat. We tell them that the next time we're here, sure, we can do what they want. We tell them |
| 0:54.6 | that when they're older, they can do this or that. It's not that we don't mean these little |
| 0:59.0 | promises. It's just because they're so small, we forget, or we're really only saying them to |
| 1:03.8 | distract them or to change the subject because we're assuming they too will forget. We have to |
| 1:09.6 | remember the sweet scene in the road. The boy catches his |
| 1:12.6 | father giving the last of the hot chocolate, even though they had agreed to split everything evenly. |
| 1:18.3 | This is a big deal to the boy. If you break your promises, you'll break big ones. That's what |
| 1:23.5 | you said, he chides his father, and it's true. The little promises matter because they build trust, |
| 1:28.9 | because they show that your word is important to you. The father who says he'll be home for dinner |
| 1:33.8 | but isn't what kid is going to trust that he will be there when the kid really needs him. |
| 1:38.4 | The father who says that he's going to quit smoking and doesn't. How can the kid believe them |
| 1:42.5 | when they'll say that family means more |
| 1:44.3 | to them than anything? How can the dad who lies to get out of spending $2 at the grocery store |
| 1:49.8 | be counted on when it really counts? They can't. If you break the little promises, |
| 1:54.9 | you'll break the big ones. So don't. Hey, thanks for listening to the Daily Dad podcast. You can get this via email every day |
| 2:02.8 | as well at DailyDad.com. Please leave us a review in iTunes. And most importantly, if you know |
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