They Deserve This Intervention

The Daily Dad

Daily Dad

Society & Culture, Dads, Relationships, Parenting, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Ryan Holiday, Wisdom, Education, Fatherhood

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Our job is to help them see what they do not see (which is so often how what they are doing affects people other than them).

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1:40.0	They deserve this intervention. This is what teenagers do. They re this intervention.
1:45.0	This is what teenagers do.
1:47.0	They rebel, they offend, they push boundaries, they challenge convention, and they question the beliefs of their parents.
1:54.0	And as they expand their world, they are attracted to art and artists and symbols in people who help them do this.
2:01.8	It's not surprising then that as a child of two liberal Mississippians in the 1980s,
2:07.7	that the writer Wright Thompson possessed a little bit of a rebel yell.
2:11.6	It's not surprising that he'd put up a Confederate flag in his room at boarding school.
2:16.6	He was certainly not the first teenager
2:18.3	to be drawn to symbols and ideas that he could not fully comprehend or understand what those
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