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.

I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from

parents just like you all over the world. Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

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mentioning us at checkout. Terms and Conditions Apply. It can be so frustrating to be a kid. Everyone

has a head start on you, older kids, your teachers, your parents, your grandparents.

They've been around longer, seeing more, read more, done more, and they don't hesitate to

lord this knowledge over you, do they?

Perhaps you remember this even from your own childhood, the condescension, the corrections,

the confusion, which is why we ought to make a little more effort

to balance this asymmetry in wisdom and experience with our children. A few months ago, we talked

about how one method of teaching young kids to read involves asking them to read about topics

they actually know about. A kid who knows about baseball will read and understand a paragraph

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