What You Teach Them Can Never Be Taken Away

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Daily Dad

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

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🗓️ 3 December 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

"A lot can go wrong. You and your spouse could split up. You could get cancer and die before your kids grow up. They could join a cult. They could move far away. They could be the victim of injustices or experience serious adversity.

We have no idea what life has in store for our kids. So what should we do now?"

Ryan describes what we should focus on, even though we can never know the whole future, 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.
0:33.1	What you teach them can never be taken away.
0:36.8	A lot can go wrong. You and your spouse could split up.
0:39.8	You could get cancer and die before your kids grow up. They could join a cult. They could move far away.
0:45.3	They could be a victim of injustices or experience serious adversity. We have no idea what life has in
0:51.9	store for our kids. So what should we do now?
0:55.1	What should we focus on?
0:56.7	The answer is simple.
0:58.2	On teaching them as much as we can while we can.
1:01.3	The future is unknown, but the present is ours.
1:04.8	How will we use it?
1:06.4	When the civil rights pioneer John Lewis was a boy growing up in a terrible time of segregation and racism, his mother faced the same dilemma.
1:14.3	When she would drop him off for school each day, however, she reminded him, once you learn something, she said, once you get something inside your head, no one can take it away from you.
1:24.6	Whatever happens tomorrow, your kids will have what you taught them today.
1:28.3	Whatever you put in their brain, what you show them, what you expose them to, what you review with
1:33.5	them. This is a way of arming them, of preparing them, of serving them long after you're gone,
1:38.9	of giving them something that can never be taken away. So do it. Thanks for listening to the Daily Dad podcast.
1:47.9	Please leave us a review. It helps. Tell your friends, share this with other dads. And of course,
1:53.1	you can sign up for an email version of this podcast at DailyDad.com. com.
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