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Which Will It Be? Dec 18, 2020

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“In his Broadway show, Bruce Springsteen—whose songs have often focused on the painful legacy of our parents—explained the choice that all of us have as fathers. “We are ghosts or we are ancestors in our children's lives,” he said at the beginning of Long Time Comin’. “We either lay our mistakes, our burdens upon them, and we haunt them, or we assist them in laying those old burdens down, and we free them from the chain of our own flawed behavior. And as ancestors, we walk alongside of them, and we assist them in finding their own way, and some transcendence.”

Learn how you can be an ancestor, and not a ghost to your children, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.

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This Is How to Ask Them Dec 17, 2020

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“When Martin Luther King Jr. took over Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, AL, he insisted on a small social shift after his sermons that was immediately noticed. As he mingled with his parishioners on Sundays, he wouldn’t ask them what they were doing, the way previous pastors had. Instead, he looked them in the eye and said How are you doing?”

Learn more about this story and why the questions you ask your kids are so important on today’s Daily Dad podcast.

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This Is What Putting Them First Looks Like Dec 16, 2020

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“For his whole career, Archie Manning had been a company man for the New Orleans Saints. He was great but the team was terrible. For years, they had lost. For years, he had endured poor offensive lines, poor drafting and never even coming close to contention. So you’d think it would have been a second wind for his career to be traded to Houston and then to the Vikings. He still had years left in him, a real shot of being part—finally—of a winning team. But instead, in 1984, he retired.”

Learn why Archie Manning made this decision and how it impacted his children on today’s Daily Dad podcast.

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They Are Going to Ask You Dec 15, 2020

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“At some point in the future your kids and your grandkids are going to ask you. They’re going to say: Dad, when there were 200,000 cases and 2,000 deaths a day in America during the pandemic, what were doing?”

Ryan lends some perspective to the choices we are all making about how we behave during the pandemic on today’s Daily Dad Podcast.

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The Lives of the Greats Remind Us Dec 14, 2020

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“Why do we tell our kids stories? Why do we tell them about history? Teach them about Martin Luther King, George Washington, Cincinnatus, Florence Nightingale, Jesus, Marcus Aurelius? Because it matters.”

Ryan explains the importance of teaching kids about history’s greatest men and women on today’s Daily Dad podcast.

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It’s Always Been Like This Dec 11, 2020

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"There he walked, along the trail, carrying his young child pressed up against his side. Sometimes the kid would get a burst of energy and call to be put down. I want to walk. I want to walk. So the father would set the child down and they’d walk together, hand in hand. Soon enough, they’d get tired again and need to be carried. Other times, the father stopped briefly to readjust, putting the child down between his legs and then picking up him and switching sides. Walk. Rest. Walk.
How long did it go on like this? What were their names? Where were they going?"
Find out the meaning behind this story, and its hidden significance for all parents of any era, on today's Daily Dad Podcast.
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Think of Everything They Missed Dec 10, 2020

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"You read an old book and it’s pretty common: Dads didn’t used to be present for the birth of their children. Sometimes they weren’t even in town—they’d heard about it in a letter or a call, and not meet their own kids for days or weeks or months until after they were born... Things are way different now. A lot more is demanded of fathers and also of mothers. It’s hard, but also… what a gift!"
Ryan explains what those parents of previous generations missed out on on today's Daily Dad Podcast.
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This Is Something to Invest In Dec 09, 2020

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"You work hard for your family. You know how you sweated for each dollar, which can make it hard to spend. Especially if you have an eye toward investing—every dollar expended now comes at the cost of returns in the future.
That’s one way to think about it, but it’s not the only way."
Find another perspective on how to invest in your family on today's Daily Dad Podcast.
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Practice What You Preach Dec 08, 2020

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"If you haven’t read Emily Oster’s work, then your wife probably has. She’s a wonderful, brilliant economist (who also has a brilliant newsletter) whose work focuses on parenting and children.
It shouldn’t surprise us that her work is brilliant and often contrarian, given the unique childhood she had. Oster was the children of two professors at Yale. Her mother and father did more than just interesting work—they showed it to their children, expanding their minds and their perceptions in the process."
Ryan explains how the way you set up your household influences your children for the rest of their lives on today's Daily Dad Podcast.
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