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🗓️ 29 December 2023
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We’ve said this before, but one of the things we need to constantly remind ourselves of as parents is that our kids are just being kids. If we’re being honest, what’s closer to an accurate description of a kid: those behaviors listed above or being a perfectly quiet, perfectly obedient, perfectly well mannered and well behaved? You know that kids do these things, you know that it’s normal, you know that it’s largely harmless, you know that they have very little control over it, that it’s all part of a process of learning and growing and figuring things out.
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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. |
0:15.9 | I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, |
0:23.7 | and insights from parents just like you all over the world. Thank you for listening, |
0:29.6 | and we hope this helps. Why are you trying to make this go away? We take all sorts of things |
0:36.0 | that kids do and label it misbehaving, talking back, |
0:39.4 | running around, screaming, sneaking around, breaking stuff, cursing, spitting, whining, making messes, |
0:43.7 | not following the rules, hitting their siblings, pulling pranks, as if this isn't totally normal |
0:48.7 | behavior for someone their age. We've said this before, but one of the things we need to constantly |
0:53.9 | remind ourselves of |
0:54.9 | as parents is that our job is that our kids are just being kids. And if we're being honest, |
1:00.1 | what's closer to an accurate description of a kid? Those behaviors listed above or being a perfectly |
1:05.7 | quiet, perfectly obedient, perfectly well-mannered and well-behaved. You know that kids do these things. You know |
1:11.8 | that it's normal. You know that it's largely harmless. You know that they have very little control over it, |
1:16.0 | that it's all part of the process of learning and growing and figuring things out. It's strange, |
1:21.5 | then, that our instinct as parents isn't to try to find ways to be patient and understanding to |
1:25.8 | appreciate, to endure, given that it's a phase that will eventually end. No, our instinct seems to be to find ways to be patient and understanding to appreciate to endure, given that it's a phase |
1:28.9 | that will eventually end. No, our instinct seems to be to be surprised by all this, to yell at them for it, |
1:34.0 | to try to make them not be kids, as if that's even possible. Someday you will miss it. Someday they will |
1:40.4 | be perfectly behaved boring adults. Someday it will no longer be possible for them to be |
1:45.2 | kids. So why are you rushing through it, trying to crush it, stamp it out, trying to make them |
1:50.0 | something other than what they are right now? |
2:08.5 | Hey, you're listening to the Daily Dad podcast, one meditation a day inspired to help you do your most important job, which is be a great father. |
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