The Daily Dad Podcast provides one lesson every day to help you with your most important job, being a parent. Ryan Holiday draws these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from parents just like you all over the world. We try to shape our children to fit our fantasies as athletes or Ivy Leaguers from the time they are born. And yet aren't we all a little guilty of this?
“Only later,” Joan Didion wrote of her daughter, “did I see that I had been raising her as a doll.” Grieving, heart broken over the sudden and tragic loss of her family (detailed in the moving books A Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights), she was almost certainly being too hard on herself, yet…
Aren’t we all a little guilty of this?
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