Where Do They Learn To Judge?

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

4.6 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

“You didn’t mean anything by it. It was a comment under your breath about your brother’s spending habits. It was a joke about a celebrity’s weight. It was a complaint about the way your neighbor parks in their driveway. It was the conversation between you and your spouse over dinner, about what’s wrong with the other side, about them.”

Ryan discusses how much of an impact what you say has on your kids, 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
0:12.3	with your most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy,
0:17.7	by practical wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world. Thank you for
0:23.6	listening, and we hope this helps. Where do they learn to judge? You didn't mean anything by it.
0:35.5	It was a comment under your breath about your brother's spending habits. It was a joke about a celebrity's weight. It was a complaint about the way your neighbor parks in their driveway. It was the conversation between you and your spouse over dinner about what's wrong with the other side, about them. But your kids heard it. We wonder where our kids learn to judge or worse, where they learn to be
0:56.0	biased or to hate. And there's only one answer. They learn it from us. The great Dennis Leary once
1:02.1	joke that racism isn't born, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son, he said, nobody hates,
1:08.4	naps, end of list. The same is true for snobbery, for condescension, for writing
1:14.0	people off, for partisanship, and all the other nasty inclinations of the human species.
1:19.3	We all know those parents who worry obsessively about cursing in front of their kids. They fret about
1:24.2	violent movies and unmonitored YouTube access, and then they do nothing to shield those same formative minds from snide remarks, from stereotypes or snap judgments about those people.
1:36.1	We want kids who are open-minded, who give people the benefit of the doubt, but are you showing them what this looks like day to day?
1:43.5	Sure, you're not a bigot, but are you always
1:45.9	kind? You would never say anything cruel to someone's face, but why are you saying it behind their
1:51.0	backs, especially when your kids can hear you? The world needs less judgment, less bullying,
1:57.6	less opinions, period. Can you start this trend at home?
2:03.4	Can you teach your kids what that looks like?
2:09.3	Instead of letting the same old rumor mills spin round and round, grinding their goodness to dust.
2:12.9	Hey, thanks for listening to the Daily Dad podcast.
2:14.8	Please leave us a review.
2:15.5	It helps.
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