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The Daily Dad

When Do You See Your Kids?

The Daily Dad

Daily Dad

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

4.6630 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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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.

0:31.2

As you know, I'm a dad to two young boys. I've got a lot of stuff going on. I got Daily Stoke,

0:35.7

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1:36.5

When do you see your kids? No one is saying you have to completely give up your social life.

1:42.4

No one is saying that you should drop everything that matters to you that you dream of.

1:46.3

In fact, in the Daily Dad book, we quote this terribly sad line from the mother of the novelist

1:50.2

Susan Strait, who tried to tell her daughter that when you get married, you give up half your

1:54.4

life, and when you have kids, you give up the other half.

1:58.4

No way.

1:59.5

At the same time, some parents seem to think that nothing

2:02.3

in their life changes just because they have kids. You see them on social media taking long

2:07.5

trips to Europe with girlfriends or college buddies, not a child in sight. You hear about their

2:12.9

daily routines or their work schedule and you wonder how they could possibly have time for

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