You Can’t Let Them Do This

The Daily Dad

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

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

“They say it all the time. When will this be over? Are we there yet? Why is this taking so long? Do we have to? It’s whiney. It’s annoying. You ask them to stop. But in getting upset, you miss the real opportunity. To teach them. To explain to them what they’re really saying.”

Learn why you should’t take the only time that you have with your kids for granted, 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. You can't let them do this. They say it all the time. When
0:34.2	will this be over? Are we there yet? Why is this taking so long? Do we have to?
0:38.2	It's whiny. It's annoying. You ask them to stop. But in getting upset, you miss the real
0:43.3	opportunity to teach them to explain what they're really saying. In his book, Travel with Epicurus,
0:49.6	the writer Daniel Klein recalls a formative moment. I remember one long ago evening on an overcrowded train to
0:56.0	Pennsylvania, hearing a young woman moaned to her mother. God, I wish we were there already. Her
1:01.3	white-haired mother replied eloquently, darling, never wish away a minute of your life. They're kids
1:07.7	so they don't understand how short a time we actually have on this planet.
1:11.6	Even you as an adult sometimes forget it.
1:14.1	That you only get 18 summers at home with your kids.
1:17.2	That you only get to drop them off at school a couple thousand times.
1:21.0	You only get so many breakfast together, so many trips to the store, so many waits in the lobby, the doctor's office.
1:26.7	To wish that away to waste them?
1:28.7	To want it to be over soon? What a tragedy. What arrogance. Sure, sometimes things are boring.
1:35.2	Sometimes they're even a little painful. But all we have for certain is right now. We can't take it for granted.
1:41.4	We have to teach them now before they regret it. not to waste a minute of this life we have.
1:46.0	We have to live it now, together, as a family.
1:50.0	Hey, you're listening to the Daily Dad podcast,
1:54.6	one meditation a day inspired to help you do your most important job,
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