This is All They Want

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2:01Now available in Canada and the UK to qunce.com slash daily dad. Welcome to the daily dad podcast where we provide one lesson every single day to help you with your most important job being a parent. I'm Ryan Holiday and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from parents just like you all over the world. Thank you for listening and we hope this helps. Quince is all they want. It's a stereotype to be sure and you're not nearly as bad as some men but it doesn't make it okay that sometimes you just do the minimum that you blow stuff off that you pretend not to know how to do things that you assume your partner will take care of it. And when you actually do something that you want to parade and I want you to try is that

3:04I can thank you for trying Paris Paloma sings in her song stem the flow and then maybe that will make you try some more. It's kind of pathetic right like your job is to do your job to take care of your family to carry your share of the load and then some. I want you to try is that so hard to try to care to try to notice to look around and do what needs to be done before someone has to ask you. Your family doesn't need perfection they don't need some grand gesture they need effort they need attention they need you to know that the family you say matters most to you actually gets the best of you they just want you to try. 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

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