This Could Be The Moment
The Daily Dad
Daily Dad
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🗓️ 21 April 2021
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
“You’re busy. It’s just a trip to the store. They have been a pain all day. You’re trying to get ready to give them a special surprise. ”
Ryan explains why every second with your kids counts, 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 |
| 0:14.1 | most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical |
| 0:20.3 | wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world. |
| 0:24.5 | Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:33.4 | This could be the moment. You're busy. It's just a trip to the store. They've been a pain all day. You're trying to get ready to give them a special surprise. And because of what you're trying to do, get through or plan, you're not thinking about right now. You're thinking about later. Well, is that so bad? In theory, of course not. The problem is that in reality, this moment, the one right in front of you |
| 0:55.8 | might be the moment. Not only in the sense of the story we've told about FDR, who had no idea that |
| 1:02.3 | a certain afternoon with his kids would turn out to be the last one he'd ever spend with the use of his |
| 1:06.9 | legs, but also in the sense of what is usually most memorable in childhood. Think of your |
| 1:12.1 | own early days. Think of what stands out. Was it the big moments, the big conversations? Or was it |
| 1:18.2 | ordinary experiences, ordinary interactions, ones your own parents don't even recall, that are |
| 1:23.7 | somehow wormed into your memory? Like when your dad took off work and took you to a |
| 1:28.3 | random midweek baseball game, or when mom made breakfast for dinner, your favorite, for no reason in |
| 1:33.2 | particular, or conversely, when they spoke to you sharply, when you saw them do something, |
| 1:38.0 | when you were made to feel a certain way that you've never felt before. As we've said, |
| 1:42.2 | there is no such thing as quality time or family time. Every moment |
| 1:47.0 | is a chance to be apparent. Indeed, you are shaping them every moment whether you intend to or not. |
| 1:53.5 | Every moment could be the moment. So you can't rush through them. You can't assume they don't matter |
| 1:58.4 | or lower your standards for yourselves. Be here now. Do your |
| 2:02.8 | job now. It may just count more than anything you've got planned and they may just remember it forever. |
| 2:10.6 | Hey, thanks for listening to the Daily Dad podcast. You can get this via email every day as well at |
| 2:16.0 | Daily Dad.com. Please leave us a review in iTunes. |
| 2:20.1 | Most importantly, if you know any dads or parents who would benefit from these messages, |
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