Being Proud of Your Child: A Father's Response to Criticism

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Exploring the importance of pride in fatherhood and how to respond to criticism of one's child's mistakes and struggles with addiction, with examples from Joe Biden and personal experience.

"Imagine you’re in the middle of the biggest moment of your career.

Suddenly, someone starts attacking and criticizing your son. They’re not completely wrong. Your son has made mistakes. Your son has struggled with addiction and bad decision-making. Those decisions have cost your family money, maybe. It’s caused you untold stress, personally. It’s made you sad and it’s made you angry. It’s certainly caused problems for you at work.

What do you do?"

Ryan explains a recent high-profile example of what you should do in this situation on today's Daily Dad Podcast.

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