How to Be a Good Parent

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Ryan Holiday: Being a good parent is something much more than that. Like all things, it's a process. He says you don't just read what to expect when you're expecting and then you got it. To be great at this process or at least just not to screw it up, you have to study. You have to commit yourself to it daily. If you don't give your best to this, what could possibly deserve your best?

Sure, you become a parent when you have a kid. It’s a biological thing. It’s a legal status. It’s codified on a piece of paper. But we all know that being a good parent is something much more than that.

There is no one moment, one benchmark, one thing that makes you a parent–just as there is no single moment that one becomes a writer or an entrepreneur or a wise elder. Even ‘turning pro’ as the great Steven Pressfield has written, is not something that happens with the signing of a contract or being drafted by a team.

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