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.

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. Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

You have to know how these things land. It doesn't feel like they listen, and in fact we have

pretty visible evidence that they don't. We tell them not to do this or that, and then we watch them do that exact thing. We warn them, we remind them, we advise them, and then they come to us crying or complaining or in trouble having heated none of that guidance. So you can be forgiven for missing the fact that not only are they listening to what you say, but your words have an enormous effect on them, so much so that you have to be really, really careful. Think about your own life. Are there not things that your parents said that still weigh on you? The way that your father would call you lazy, the comments your mother made about food or your weight, the way they would tease you, the things they said about your grades, the tone they used when they were disappointed or angry. It's been decades and we're still carrying these things,

even if we know now that they are sorry or that they didn't understand or that they were just trying

to help. And if we want to avoid doing the same thing to our children, we need to understand

the power that our words hold. We need to be cognizant of the

incredible power imbalance in our households. We are bigger and stronger and older. We control

the purse strings. Moreover, they want our approval, our love to make us proud. They may even think

that they need to earn these things or that these things can be taken away if they don't measure up.

All this means that our words, even our moods, land very heavily on our children no matter

their age. And we must think and act and speak accordingly. We must think and act and speak

sensitively.

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