Are You Modeling This for Them?

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2:03all over the world. Thank you for listening and we hope this helps. We tell our children that they can learn anything that mistakes or opportunities for growth that challenges make us stronger. But are you showing them? Does your life actually demonstrate that these values are important? Does it show what this looks like in practice? Here's the crucial truth. Our children aren't just observing our daily routines. They're being taught what it means to be an adult by our example. As James Baldwin noted, children may not listen to our lectures but they never failed to imitate us. Every action, every reaction, every ritual becomes a lesson in how to navigate life. And if we want our children to embrace growth and challenge, we have to model that ourselves. And spring is really a great opportunity to show our children what personal growth looks

3:04like. It's a chance to let them witness us examining our habits, cleaning up our messes, questioning our patterns and actively working to become better. And if that's something you are trying to work on, which I, of course, am trying to work on, I would love to see you in the daily stoic spring forward challenge. Me and thousands of stoics all over the world are going to challenge ourselves to improve ourselves and show our kids what it means to clean up our acts, so to speak. And that we're not just talking about a growth mindset, but we're going to live it. It's going to be 10 days of stoic inspired challenges kicking off on March 20th, the first day of spring. I would love to see you in there. Sign up right now at dailystoic.com slash spring. And by the way, we have a special discount for podcast listeners. This year we're offering 20% off when you use code DS pod 20 at checkout. You can join me and thousands of other stoics in the daily stoic spring forward challenge. Just head over to dailystoic.com slash spring and enter code DS pod 20 to get 20% off.

4:05It's going to be awesome. And remember, your kids aren't just watching what you do. They are learning who to become. And let's show them that we're getting clean. We're getting after it. That's what I'm going to be doing. I like to do the challenges with my kids. And they asked me, you know, I look, hey, dad, what's the challenge today? I just love that. It's awesome. And I hope you can have that discussion in your family and just sign up now at dailystoic.com slash spring. Hey, thanks for listening to the daily dad podcast. You can get this via email every day as well at dailydad.com. Please leave us a review in iTunes. Most importantly, if you know any dads or parents who benefit from these messages, please spread the word. Thanks.

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