The Daily Dad

Practice What You Preach

Dec 8, 2020

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The podcast discusses Emily Oster's brilliant and contrarian work on parenting and children, influenced by her unique childhood. It emphasizes the long-term impact of household setup on children's lives.

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Living our beliefs by demonstrating them in our actions is crucial in transmitting our values to our children.

Being true to ourselves as parents and embracing our unique parenting styles, even if they differ from societal norms, teaches our children the importance of authenticity and embracing diversity of thought.

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Importance of Applying Beliefs to Parenting

The podcast episode emphasizes the significance of actually applying our beliefs and values to our parenting. The speaker refers to the example of economist Emily Auster's parents, who not only discussed their beliefs but demonstrated them in their everyday actions. Auster's parents incorporated economic principles into their parenting, using opportunities like food shopping to teach their children about opportunity cost and time management. They also modeled gender equality by taking turns cooking and exploring unconventional naming practices to challenge patriarchal norms. The key message is that it's essential to live our beliefs and ideologies rather than just talking about them. By doing so, we can effectively transmit our values to our children.

Practicing What You Preach: Lessons from Emily Auster's Upbringing

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"If you haven’t read Emily Oster’s work, then your wife probably has. She’s a wonderful, brilliant economist (who also has a brilliant newsletter) whose work focuses on parenting and children.

It shouldn’t surprise us that her work is brilliant and often contrarian, given the unique childhood she had. Oster was the children of two professors at Yale. Her mother and father did more than just interesting work—they showed it to their children, expanding their minds and their perceptions in the process."

Ryan explains how the way you set up your household influences your children for the rest of their lives on today's Daily Dad Podcast.

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