The Kinds of Stories To Tell Them
The Daily Dad
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🗓️ 15 March 2021
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
“It was a dark time. The world was falling apart. School was a distant memory. All they had was time. Is this your life? Or is it the plot of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road?”
Ryan explains why you should expose your kids to inspiring and entertaining stories that instill values in them, 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 |
| 0:12.3 | with your most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, |
| 0:17.7 | by practical wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world. |
| 0:22.8 | Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:31.2 | The kinds of stories to tell them. |
| 0:35.2 | It was a dark time. |
| 0:37.2 | The world was falling apart. School was a distant memory. All they had was time. Is this your |
| 0:45.2 | life? Or is it the plot of Cormant McCarthy's The Road? Among the beautiful haunting paragraphs in that book is this one. |
| 0:53.6 | He banked the fire against the seam of the rock |
| 0:56.2 | where he built it and strung the tarp behind them to reflect the heat and they sat warm in their |
| 1:02.0 | refuge while he told the boy stories, stories of courage and justice as he remembered them |
| 1:07.9 | till the boy was asleep in his blankets. |
| 1:18.1 | Thankfully, our situation isn't as dire as this. COVID-19 is not literally the end of the world. |
| 1:25.6 | We are not in the apocalypse. But in a sense, that makes telling these kinds of stories even more imperative because we are not crazy to have hope. All is not lost. |
| 1:30.7 | We really do have a future to prepare our children for. So what stories are you telling them? |
| 1:37.6 | Funny tales about pizza and alligators and robots? Or are you teaching them about courage and |
| 1:43.5 | justice? Are you putting them in front of a |
| 1:45.8 | screen or taking them back to the myths of history? Are you reading them whatever books |
| 1:51.3 | people gave them as birthday gifts or searching for stuff that really does the job of setting |
| 1:56.9 | them on the course to live well and be great. Our kids don't need to just be entertained |
| 2:04.0 | after all. They need to be inspired. They need to be taught. They need to be inculcated in those |
| 2:09.8 | timeless virtues that will serve them, whether society falls apart or thrives. You have to do that |
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