This is Why They Don’t Respect Their Elders
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🗓️ 9 November 2021
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Ryan talks about how important boundaries are, 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 single day to help you with your most important job, being a parent. |
| 0:14.7 | I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from |
| 0:23.4 | parents just like you all over the world. Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:34.5 | This is why they don't respect their elders. People sometimes lament that things have changed. |
| 0:41.2 | Extended families no longer seem so close. We're no longer so deferential to our elders. |
| 0:46.2 | One recent study found that 10% of adults are estranged from their grown children. |
| 0:51.9 | What happened? Some people want to blame technology or a collapse of religion |
| 0:55.8 | or institutions. Maybe it was bad cultural marketing. Maybe it's a sign of the end times. It could also be, |
| 1:03.2 | you know, people making healthy decisions for themselves. As Agnes DeMille wrote, |
| 1:08.8 | children once respected their parents were glad to, took pride in the fact, and professed their devotions. |
| 1:14.6 | Now a general disbelief and disrespect between the generations is prevalent. |
| 1:19.0 | And the young people are in many ways right, alas, because parents are not so honorable as before. |
| 1:26.1 | Some of the shine of the old ways has worn off. Just look the last |
| 1:29.7 | 50 years of American history, from Watergate to the Clintons, from Iraq to the financial crisis, |
| 1:34.7 | to Trump, to COVID, to the darkness we see our own loved ones post on Facebook. Of course, |
| 1:40.9 | family is important. Grandparents are important, but no one should be afraid to draw |
| 1:44.8 | boundaries, nor should anyone be bullied or guilted into a relationship. Respect is earned. It is not a right. |
| 1:52.5 | And we need to remember that with our parents, of course, but most importantly, we need to |
| 1:56.0 | remember that with our own kids. If we want to stay in their lives, if we want them to look up |
| 2:00.8 | to us and spend time with us, we have to stay in their lives, if we want them to look up to us and spend |
| 2:01.5 | time with us, we have to be worthy of it. It's that simple. Hey, thanks for listening to the Daily Dad |
| 2:09.2 | podcast. You can get this via email every day as well at Daily Dad.com. Please leave us a review in |
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