They Can’t See Like You
The Daily Dad
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4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2021
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Ryan explains why you have to understand your children’s perspective, 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 with your most important job being a dad. |
| 0:15.2 | These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world. Thank you for |
| 0:23.5 | listening, and we hope this helps. They can't see like you. For most of Theodore Roosevelt's life, |
| 0:36.2 | he had no idea. He was active. He was out in nature. |
| 0:39.1 | He read like crazy. But he had no idea that all these things were harder than they needed to be. |
| 0:44.3 | He had no idea that he was only experiencing a fraction of what they were actually like |
| 0:49.2 | until he got glasses at age 13. I had no idea how beautiful the world was, he said. I could not see, |
| 0:57.7 | and yet I was wholly ignorant that I was not seeing. Now the message of today's message is not just |
| 1:04.2 | to go get your kids' eyes checked, although it's a perfectly good idea. It's a reminder that |
| 1:09.0 | children have no idea what they don't know, what they can't see. And this is why they are scared easily. It's a reminder that children have no idea what they don't know, what they |
| 1:11.3 | can't see. And this is why they are scared easily. It's also why they are sometimes so dangerously |
| 1:17.7 | brave. And this is why we so regularly find ourselves in conflict with our children, especially as |
| 1:23.5 | they get older, because we are perceiving totally different realities. We see a fuller picture, |
| 1:28.8 | and they remain ignorant of what they do not see. So we have to be patient. We have to take time to |
| 1:35.6 | explain. We have to take a minute to check to see if there's some medical or informational reason |
| 1:40.7 | behind their behavior. We have to share our assumptions, not simply assume we are on the |
| 1:46.2 | same page. We have to help them see what we see. And this will help them understand how beautiful |
| 1:52.6 | the world is and also how dangerous it is, how important some things are, why we insist on this or that, |
| 1:59.3 | why it's not okay to do this or that, and what they may or may not |
| 2:02.8 | be missing. We know they don't, and it's our job to make sure they get a pair of glasses |
| 2:08.8 | to help them understand. Hey, thanks for listening to the Daily Dad podcast. You can get this via |
| 2:17.2 | email every day as well at |
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