This is a Fresh Start

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Daily Dad

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

4.6 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

We were all deprived or hurt in our childhoods. Even the best parents left something to be desired. Maybe we were ignored. Or maybe we were pressured too much. Maybe Mom’s insecurity was a burden to us. Or Dad’s sense of humor cut too deeply. Maybe our family was poor. Maybe our family was too rich, too materialistic.

We wished then that things would be different. We wished that they could just understand. That they could just give us what we needed. It didn’t happen. And that hurt.

But now we have a second chance. Now we are the parent. You are Dad. The question then is what are you doing to do it differently? How are you going to handle this second chance?

The past can’t be undone. But we can heal old wounds by being for someone else what we needed ourselves. And we can make a better world by being for our kids, what our parents were not for us.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast.
0:08.0	Every Dad needs a little help, and that's why we made this podcast.
0:12.0	It's one inspiring, philosophically driven, historical-driven, lesson about fatherhood
0:18.0	that you can use to do your most important job a little bit better.
0:22.6	This is a fresh start. We were all deprived or hurt in our childhoods.
0:36.6	Even the best parents left something to be desired.
0:40.3	Maybe we were ignored, or maybe we were pressured too much. Maybe mom's insecurity was a burden to us,
0:46.7	or dad's sense of humor cut too deeply. Maybe our family was too poor. Maybe our family was too rich,
0:53.2	too materialistic. We wished then that things
0:56.0	would be different. We wished that they could just understand, that they could just give us what they
1:01.3	needed, and it didn't happen, and that hurt. But now we have a second chance. Now we are the parent.
1:07.8	You are dad. The question then is, what are you going to do differently? How are you going to handle this second chance? Are you going to see it as a second chance? The past cannot be undone, but we can heal old wounds by being for someone else what we needed ourselves. And we can make a better world by being for our kids
1:30.5	what our parents were not for us.
1:34.2	Thank you for listening to the Daily Dad podcast.
1:36.4	You can also get an email version of these podcasts at Daily Dad.com.

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