Stop Letting This Embarrass You
The Daily Dad
Daily Dad
4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Do your best to clean up and teach them good behavior, but bring those wonderful "brats" with you.
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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. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from |
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| 1:35.1 | We all feel a little self-conscious about it. |
| 1:37.3 | Our kids don't behave as well as we'd like. |
| 1:38.1 | They make a mess. |
| 1:40.0 | They make an incredible amount of noise. |
| 1:42.4 | Perhaps this is why we keep them at home, |
| 1:43.7 | why we're always apologizing, |
| 1:47.2 | preparing people in advance for the hurricane that may or may not come through. |
| 1:54.6 | Maybe some of us fear being overshadowed by arcades or judged for having them with us that it will undermine our image as professionals. |
| 2:02.0 | Abraham Lincoln's law partner, William Herndon, often complained about Lincoln's brats, which Lincoln insisted on bringing with him to work from time to time. They pulled books off the shelf. They rifled through papers. |
| 2:06.7 | He suspected they were peeing on the rug, too. But you know what? Lincoln brought them anyway. |
| 2:12.8 | He wanted his kids to see him work, as we've said a parent must do. He wanted to spend time with them, |
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