Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you with your

most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical

wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world.

Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

When is their time?

Of course, you are busy. You have work. You have your spouse. You have your kids.

We all have the obligations of adulthood. All these things are important. How do you fit it all in?

The truth is, if you're winging it every day, you won't get it all in. Something will fall by the wayside, and far too often

that's our kids, because we can turn on the TV, because we can strap them in a car seat and bring

them along on errands, because we can tell them, sorry, kiddo, I'm busy right now. This is why it can

be a good idea to have very specific scheduled time. As the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg explained about her parenting strategy

when she was in law school at a time when women simply did not do such things, she said,

our nanny came in at eight o'clock and left at four o'clock. I used the time in between classes to

study to read the next day's assignment, but four o'clock was Jane's time, her daughter.

We went to the park, we played games, we sang silly songs. When she went to sleep, I went back to the

books. I could make the most of the time I had. I couldn't waste time. You got to make sure they

have their time, non-negotiable time, just as you do with work or anything else. The kids don't want to

get your leftovers. And what does that say if that's all we give them? No, they are the priority,

especially if we go around claiming that we are working so hard for our families. Okay, prove it.

Give them their time, the best time. And obviously, this is one of the lessons

in our 10 commandments of being a great parent. The first one is, thou shall put thy family first.

Check that out at dailystoke.com slash parenting. All sorts of great stuff in there. I think

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