What Can You Do? You Can Do This.

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Daily Dad

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

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🗓️ 16 September 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

"Especially in the early days, it can seem like being a dad is to assume the role of perpetual third wheel. You can’t nurse. You can’t magically comfort your baby. It’s not you they’re crying for in the middle of the night.

So where can a dad contribute?"

Find out a great way a dad can contribute to the household in 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.
0:33.2	What can you do? You can do this.
0:36.2	Especially in the early days, it can seem like being a dad is to assume the role of perpetual third wheel. You can't nurse. You can't magically comfort your baby. It's not you they're crying for in the middle of the night. So where can a dad contribute? Jordan Harbinger, host of the Jordan Harbinger Show and a young father himself, advises that
0:55.0	dads do bath time. He says moms tend to do a lot, and she does a lot that us dads can't do.
1:01.2	If we can be the master of bath time, mom gets a break, and it's time you'll cherish forever.
1:06.6	Besides, it's pretty hard to mess up a bath, as long as you're keeping an eye on things.
1:11.3	And while it is very practical and specific advice, it's pretty hard to mess up a bath as long as you're keeping an eye on things. And while it is very practical and specific advice, it's also great general advice.
1:16.0	What can a dad do?
1:17.1	We can look for places to contribute, for gaps to fill, for things that need to be done, but don't need to be done by mom.
1:23.6	We can take these opportunities and look to build them into special parts of our routine
1:28.1	in life. They will give us time to connect with our newborns and allow our spouse, their devoted,
1:33.6	beleaguered mom, time off. Maybe that's taking a morning walk. Maybe it's going somewhere every
1:38.8	Saturday for several hours. None of this has anything to do with traditional gender roles.
1:43.7	It simply has to do with carving out a role for yourself.
1:46.3	It's about making yourself useful and giving your partner a chance to breathe and rest in the process.
1:52.0	But most of all, as Jordan says, it's about cherishing the opportunity to spend time together,
1:57.0	even if it's garbage time, because as we know, there's no such thing.
2:02.6	Thanks for listening to the Daily Dad podcast. Please leave us a review. It helps. Tell your friends,
2:08.6	share this with other dads. And of course, you can sign up for an email version of this podcast
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