They Don’t Need a Lecture. They Need This.
The Daily Dad
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4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2021
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
“Your kids screwed up. They failed a test. They forgot their homework. They hit their brother. They scratched your car and lied about it. They got caught drinking. They got caught cheating. Worse, yet, you have talked to them about these things so many times. ”
Learn why it’s imperative that you practice patience and discipline with your children, 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. |
| 0:31.0 | They don't need a lecture. They need this. |
| 0:34.2 | Your kids screwed up. They failed a test. They forgot their homework. They hit their brother. |
| 0:39.0 | He scratched your car and lied about it. They got caught drinking. They got caught cheating. |
| 0:44.5 | Worse yet, you have talked to them about these things so many times. The author, |
| 0:50.9 | John Steinbeck, was going through this with his son Tom as he wrote east of Eden. |
| 0:55.7 | His son was not taking school seriously. He was acting out. |
| 0:59.1 | As Steinbeck wrote in his diary, his wife thought their son needed a lecture about this. |
| 1:04.6 | Steinbeck then in the middle of writing about two very different unruly sets of sons in his book |
| 1:10.0 | knew that this wasn't quite right. He needs |
| 1:12.6 | more than that, he reminded himself. He needs infinite patience and discipline. Not only is that |
| 1:20.2 | what your kids need. It's what we all need, patience and discipline, kindness combined with firmness. |
| 1:27.1 | Nobody wants to be lectured. Nobody wants to be |
| 1:29.6 | nagged. What we need is to be understood and held accountable. Think of your own troubles as a kid |
| 1:36.0 | when you were acting out, when you weren't taking school seriously, when you were getting into |
| 1:40.3 | trouble. Did getting yelled at help? What you really wanted, what you needed, was for someone |
| 1:46.3 | to see why you were doing this. You needed someone to guide you back onto the right path. You |
| 1:52.9 | needed someone to help you realize the consequences of not being on that right path. |
| 1:58.1 | Patience and discipline. That was what you needed. But did you get it? No. |
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