Look for the Double Opportunity
The Daily Dad
Daily Dad
4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2020
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
"The jogging stroller lets you exercise… while spending time with your kid. The drive to school, or to soccer tournaments… is a chance to have that conversation you needed to have with your daughter. All the chores that need to be done around the house...they’re a way to teach your kids about responsibility."
Ryan discusses how you can find unexpected places to impart lessons to your child 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 most |
| 0:14.3 | 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. |
| 0:33.4 | Look for the double opportunity. |
| 0:36.1 | Bill Simmons is a busy man. He may be best known as the sports guy from his old ESPN days, but he's also a writer, a podcaster, a CEO, a documentary film producer, a husband, and a father of two. His eldest, Zoe, is a promising soccer player on a big time travel soccer team. So every weekend for months during soccer season, |
| 0:55.2 | they've loaded into the car and driven for hours around Southern California to various tournaments. |
| 1:01.0 | If you know anything about Los Angeles, you know that traffic is a frustrating, |
| 1:05.2 | nerve-wracking hell on earth. And yet Simmons says he wouldn't trade it for anything, |
| 1:10.8 | as he's talked about numerous |
| 1:12.1 | times on the parent corner segment of his guest, the NFL lines podcast during the football |
| 1:16.5 | season, the drive to and from tournaments means he's got his now teenage daughter trapped |
| 1:21.8 | in a confined space with him for hours when he can check in with her. How's school, friends, boyfriends, how are you |
| 1:29.0 | feeling about things going on in the world? As fathers, the one thing that is always in short supply |
| 1:35.1 | is time, and Bill Simmons' time is as thinly stretched as anyone's, which is why he has learned |
| 1:41.4 | how to double up on it. And we all should too. |
| 1:44.6 | The jogging stroller lets you exercise. |
| 1:47.3 | We'll spend in time with your kids. |
| 1:49.0 | The drive to school or soccer tournaments is a chance to have a conversation you needed to have with your daughter. |
| 1:54.3 | All the chores that need to be done around the house, they're a way to teach your kids about responsibility. |
| 1:59.6 | There's a hilarious meme that might be taking it a bit too far, which points out that |
| 2:03.7 | Spanish subtitles on the TV makes watching your favorite show an ESL lesson for your kids. |
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