The Daily Dad

Lift Them Up, Don’t Hold Them Back

Apr 27, 2020

02:40

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The podcast discusses the importance of lifting our children up, pushing them forward, and never holding them back. It highlights the need for self-improvement as parents and teaching kids to live independently.

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Parents should prioritize lifting their children up and pushing them forward, instead of holding them back.

Parents need to remember that their job is to support their children's needs, dreams, and aspirations and not let their own baggage hinder their child's success.

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The Importance of Lifting Up Our Children

As parents, our main responsibility is to lift our children up and push them forward, rather than holding them back. We must realize that our role is to support and encourage our children's growth and development. Often, parents restrict their children's potential due to fear, lack of value for education, or their own self-centeredness. We need to break free from such limitations, work on ourselves, and prioritize our children's well-being and success.

Lift Them Up, Don’t Hold Them Back

3min

"Family is wonderful. None of us would be here, the writer Aaron Thier once put it, if people hadn’t taken care of us when we were small. Somebody birthed us, raised us, drove us to school, kept us safe.

So naturally we feel an affinity and obligation to our family, as we hope our own children will. Being around them is comfortable. It’s familiar. It’s primal. But it’s also important that we realize, as we get older as parents, that we always remember that our job is to lift our children up, to push them forward, and never to hold them back. That’s why we have to work on ourselves. That’s why we can’t get complacent or selfish."

Ryan talks about the importance of teaching your kids to eventually live their lives independently.

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