You Gotta Take An Interest
The Daily Dad
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🗓️ 5 May 2022
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Ryan talks about why you have to be interested in your kids lives.
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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. |
| 0:14.7 | I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from |
| 0:23.4 | parents just like you all over the world. Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:34.4 | You gotta take an interest. When Margaret Thatcher was in school as a young girl, she was assigned |
| 0:41.1 | books like we all were. Some were boring, some were exciting, some were strange. But without fail, |
| 0:47.3 | her father, with barely a high school education himself, took interest. He wanted to discuss what |
| 0:52.8 | she was reading. He wanted to read them with her. |
| 0:55.4 | On one occasion, Thatcher recalled, he found that I did not know Walt Whitman's poetry. This was |
| 1:01.1 | quickly remedied, and Whitman is still a favorite author of mine. He did this a lot. When he found |
| 1:07.0 | that she was reading one thing, he'd recommend something related to it. When he found gaps in |
| 1:11.8 | her reading, he'd take her to the library to fill it. He got her to read the classics. He signed her |
| 1:16.6 | up for political magazines and newsletters, which he shared. And we've talked about raising a reader here, |
| 1:22.5 | one of the commandments and the Ten Commandments for being a better parent, of course. Well, this is how. It's not just about |
| 1:29.4 | reading to them when they're little. It's not just about getting them into a good school or insisting |
| 1:33.8 | they do their homework. It's about being involved. It's about making reading a family affair. It's |
| 1:39.9 | about letting them benefit from your experiences. All the ideas and books you've been exposed to |
| 1:45.0 | in the time you've been on this planet. You raise a reader by being a reader and by being a good |
| 1:51.0 | reading guide and companion. And this is a process that takes a lifetime. You take an interest |
| 1:56.5 | early and you don't stop. And the reward, a lovely, lasting connection you will always have |
| 2:02.6 | with your children. Of course, if you want to check out our Stoic Parent, the Ten Commandments, |
| 2:07.2 | being a better parent, you can check that out, dailystoic.com slash parent. |
| 2:15.6 | Hey, thanks for listening to the Daily Dad podcast. |
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