Don't Force Your Interests On Them

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This chapter explores the significance of not imposing our own interests onto our children, emphasizing the need to be open and flexible towards their desires. Insights from a father and founder of Total Fat Move shed light on the dangers of creating expectations based on our own self-centered desires, ultimately promoting their course, The Stoic Parent, for parental support.

You had all these ideas about what being a father would be. You looked forward to fixing cars together. Or watching your favorite movies. Or taking them to all the places you loved as a kid.

This is wonderful and certainly it comes from the right place: that you want to spend time with them, that you have ideas for ways to connect and to teach them. But it’s important that you’re also open to being led by who they are and what they want, and not just your own desires and ideas."

Ryan discusses the importance of letting your kid become their own person, on today's Daily Dad Podcast.

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