Make Them Prove It
The Daily Dad
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4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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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. |
| 0:14.7 | I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from |
| 0:23.4 | parents just like you all over the world. Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:34.7 | As we've said before, your kids are always watching. Not just you, of course, but the world. |
| 0:40.1 | And for better or for worse, they're always telling you about it, what they see, what they think, |
| 0:43.5 | what their opinion about it is. And this is usually delightful and occasionally annoying. |
| 0:48.6 | In his wonderful new book, Outdoor Kids in an Inside World, Stephen Ronella tells a story about |
| 0:53.6 | taking his kids camping in Montana. |
| 0:56.5 | One of his kids confidently claimed to have spotted a scorpion. |
| 1:00.2 | But when Steve didn't believe him, they got increasingly upset, convinced that they had, in fact, seen one. |
| 1:05.5 | I told my son the only way he would change my mind, Stephen writes, is by bringing me a scorpion, |
| 1:11.7 | which seemed like a perfectly safe and reasonable thing to say since we all know there are no scorpions in Montana. |
| 1:17.3 | Every parent who has challenged their kids on one of those impossible claims now knows what |
| 1:21.8 | happened next. If you want to improve your relationship with your kids, one of the best ways you can do that is by improving your most important relationship, which is your relationship with yourself. |
| 1:35.4 | Whether it's body issues, whether it's eating issues, whether it's childhood traumas from early in life, whether it's a work addiction, a drug addiction, |
| 1:45.8 | whether it's how you see yourself and that affects how you act in your marriage, right? |
| 1:51.8 | Dealing with your own issues will make you a better parent. |
| 1:55.1 | And I think the best way to do that is with therapy. |
| 1:58.9 | BetterHelp Online Therapy, the sponsor of today's podcast, wants to remind you |
| 2:03.2 | to take care of your most important relationship, the one you have with yourself. Better Help |
| 2:07.4 | Online Therapy offers video, phone, and even live chat sessions with your therapist. You don't |
| 2:12.1 | even have to see anyone on camera. Definitely don't have to see anyone in person if you don't want to. |
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