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The Daily Dad

You Can Be Safe Without Being Crazy

The Daily Dad

Daily Dad

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

4.6630 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Sure, it’s a trend these days that parents are overprotective. We’ve got helicopter parents and snowplow parents and risk averse, paranoid parents. This is true and it harms kids.

But you know what’s responsible for way more harm to kids? Parents who aren’t thinking about this stuff at all. Parents who don’t take basic safety precautions because they’re either not aware or not clued into very real, very common worst case scenarios.


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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 parents just like you all over the world.

0:27.4

Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

0:37.2

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0:40.3

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0:43.3

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0:47.7

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0:50.9

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0:54.7

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0:58.3

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1:02.3

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1:06.6

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1:10.0

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1:15.6

That's P-A-I-R-I-Ware.com slash daily dad. You can be safe without being crazy.

1:37.7

Sure, it's a trend these days that parents are overprotective.

1:41.3

We've got helicopter parents and snowplow parents and risk-averse

1:44.6

paranoid parents. This is true and it harms children. But you know what's responsible for way

1:50.7

more harm to kids? Parents who aren't thinking about this stuff at all. Parents who don't take

1:56.3

basic safety precautions because they're either not aware or not clued into very real, very common

2:02.3

worst case scenarios. There is zero mutual exclusivity between raising independent, resilient

2:09.0

kids and making sure they wear a bike helmet or making sure you lock up any guns in your house.

2:15.5

You're not being overprotective by making sure they're vaccinated,

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