They Are Not Miniature Versions of You
The Daily Dad
Daily Dad
4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Our job as parents isn't to create mini-mes or to force our interests and passions onto our children. Our role is to support their unique interests, and to be fully present as they explore their own path in life.
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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. |
| 0:14.9 | 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. |
| 0:31.2 | I absolutely love the building the painted porches in. I love this historic house that we live |
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| 1:53.7 | They are not miniature versions of you. Maybe it's our favorite movie from when we were kids, |
| 2:00.0 | and maybe it's a sport that we excel at in high school. Maybe it's our favorite movie from when we were kids. And maybe it's a sport that we excelled at in high school. |
| 2:03.2 | Maybe it's visiting that special camping spot or that hidden hole in the wall in our hometown. |
| 2:07.6 | We loved growing up. |
| 2:09.6 | As parents, there's always these things that we love that we can't wait to share with our kids. |
| 2:13.8 | We get excited, you know, imagining their faces lighting up with the same joy that we felt. |
| 2:19.9 | But then reality hits, you know, they find baseball boring. They're terrified of ET. They'd rather |
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