There Are No Such Things As “Children’s Stories”
The Daily Dad
Daily Dad
4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2021
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
“Aesop’s Fables are silly stories about dogs and mice and foxes and lions. Children love them. But are they ‘for kids?’ No, they are for human beings. They are designed to teach lessons. Bad stories pander. Good stories entertain. Great ones teach while they do it. The question is, what kind of stories are you filling your kid imagination with? What kind of stories are you filling your own life with?”
Ryan explains why the stories that you expose your children to should be teaching them timeless lessons, and launches his newest book The Boy Who Will Be King, 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. |
| 0:31.3 | There are no such thing as children's stories. |
| 0:36.2 | Aesop's fables are silly stories about dogs and mice and foxes and lions. |
| 0:41.8 | Children love them. But are they for kids? No, they're for human beings. They are designed to teach lessons. |
| 0:50.0 | Bad stories pander. Good stories entertain. Great ones teach while they do it. The question is, |
| 0:57.8 | what kind of stories are you filling your kid's imagination with? What kinds of stories are you |
| 1:04.9 | filling your own life with? Are you reading them books about pizza, Paw Patrol, or The Little |
| 1:10.4 | Prince? |
| 1:11.3 | Are they watching unboxing videos on YouTube or Pixar movies? |
| 1:15.5 | We've talked about Sinanatus. |
| 1:17.2 | We've talked about great poetry. |
| 1:19.3 | There's a reason these myths this art has endured, because they mean something, |
| 1:24.4 | because they impart wisdom and meaning that matters. |
| 1:29.5 | They are not just for kids, |
| 1:35.2 | nor are they too adult. They deliver truth. And depending on how old we are, what's going on with us when we read them, we understand them on different levels. They are things we should hear |
| 1:40.0 | a hundred times, and maybe on the hundred and first time we'll finally get them. Great art does that. |
| 1:46.2 | It gets better as you grow. Is that true for Pete the cat? Probably not. For the last year, I've been |
| 1:53.1 | hard at work on my newest book, a way to tell the incredible story of the life of Marcus Aurelius. |
| 1:59.4 | Two thousand years ago, Marcus Aurelius was plucked from obscurity to become the emperor |
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