This Is What You Should Want
The Daily Dad
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🗓️ 2 December 2024
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Our job is not to raise kids at all. Our job is to raise adults.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast, where we provide one lesson every single day to help you with your most important job, being a parent. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from |
| 0:23.5 | parents just like you all over the world. Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:31.6 | This is what you should want. Then, as now, the parents really wanted a son. It was ancient Athens, so maybe they needed |
| 0:39.0 | a son to carry on the family name or to inherit their estate, maybe their farm needed labor, |
| 0:43.9 | maybe they already had several daughters. But when Diogenes, the philosopher, heard how hard they |
| 0:48.8 | were praying for the gender of their unborn child, he shook his head. But shouldn't you be |
| 0:53.4 | more concerned with what sort of man |
| 0:55.6 | he will turn out to be, he said? While Diogenes almost certainly had some retrograde opinions on |
| 1:01.7 | gender in life, he is exactly right here. Who or what our children are born matters very little |
| 1:07.3 | compared to what kind of person they end up being. Our job as parents is not to |
| 1:12.5 | design a perfect little family with perfect little children in exactly the right gender ratio. |
| 1:17.9 | Our job is not to raise kids at all. It's not to raise boys or girls. It's to raise adults. |
| 1:25.2 | It's to raise men and women. |
| 1:28.0 | We don't have boys or girls any more than a frog has tadpoles or polywogs, not permanently |
| 1:33.7 | anyway. |
| 1:35.3 | The point is to develop our kids into mature, functioning adults, into full-grown, thriving, |
| 1:40.1 | virtuous human beings. |
| 1:43.3 | That's what we're doing here. So let's do it right and focus on the right |
| 1:47.6 | things. |
| 1:54.2 | Hey, thanks for listening to the Daily Dad podcast. You can get this via email every day as well |
| 1:59.8 | at Daily Dad.com. |
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