You Must Give Them This Gift
The Daily Dad
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🗓️ 22 December 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Theodore Roosevelt lived an incredible life. He was an author. A naturalist. A rancher. A police chief. A cowboy. A hunter. A governor. A soldier. A president. An explorer. A philanthropist. And that’s probably not even close to an exhaustive list. His life was full of activity. It was full of adventure. It was marked by triumph and adversity to overcome.
It’s worth telling your kids the story of Theodore Roosevelt to inspire them for the same reason that Theodore Roosevelt’s parents made sure he knew about the fascinating and inspiring lives of history. As one biographer observed, “the story of Theodore Roosevelt is the story of a small boy who read about great men and decided he wanted to be like them.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you with your most important job being a dad. |
| 0:16.4 | These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world. |
| 0:24.4 | Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:33.1 | You must give them this gift. |
| 0:36.3 | Theodore Roosevelt lived an incredible life. |
| 0:38.6 | He was an author, a naturalist, a rancher, a police chief, a cowboy, a hunter, a governor, |
| 0:43.4 | a soldier, president, an explorer, a philanthropist. |
| 0:46.9 | That's probably not even close to an exhaustive list. |
| 0:50.1 | His life was full of activity. |
| 0:51.7 | It was full of adventure. |
| 0:53.0 | It was marked by triumph and adversity to overcome. |
| 0:56.3 | It's worth telling your kids the story of Theodore Roosevelt to inspire them for the same reason that Theodore Roosevelt's parents made sure he knew about the fascinating and inspiring lives of history. |
| 1:07.0 | As one biographer observed, the story of Theodore Roosevelt is the story of a small boy who read about great men and decided he wanted to be like them. |
| 1:16.0 | A while back, we talked about Margarita Ingle's poem about books. In that poem, she talks about how books showed her that girls were so tall and strong and clever that they could rescue other children from monsters. |
| 1:28.3 | She was spurred by the same thing that Roosevelt was. |
| 1:30.3 | She saw people who inspired her and decided to be like them. |
| 1:33.3 | But she had an obstacle that Roosevelt didn't. |
| 1:36.3 | She wasn't encouraged to read. |
| 1:38.3 | She wasn't told she could be great. |
| 1:40.3 | She wasn't told she could be like those men and women in her books. You must give your children |
| 1:46.3 | that gift. Give them books. Give them books to inspire them to be great. Tell them the story of |
| 1:51.8 | Cincinnati. Give them books that challenge them. Have great expectations for them. Watch them rise |
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