{"id":597,"date":"2020-03-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailydad.com\/?p=597"},"modified":"2022-06-29T01:50:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T01:50:45","slug":"your-job-is-to-keep-them-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydad.com\/your-job-is-to-keep-them-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Job Is To Keep Them Safe"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s in moments like these\u2014a pandemic or a hurricane or a terrorist attack\u2014that we fathers are thrown back into a more primal role. Yes, there are so many things we are expected to do as dads these days: <\/span>Teaching them to love to learn<\/span><\/a>. Teaching them how to be vulnerable and kind. Raising them to question things, to pursue mastery, <\/span>to follow the four virtues<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All of these things are important\u2026 but quite obviously come to matter very little if we don\u2019t do our most important job: Keeping them safe. Right now, practically, that means curtailing travel and meetings. That means washing your hands. It means keeping their (and your) immune system healthy. That means sending your employees home, supporting the less fortunate however you can, so they can stay home too. It means making sure you have the supplies necessary (food, medicine, etc) in case of mandatory quarantines.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On a larger level though, this is a reminder that many of us <\/span>have not<\/span><\/i> been taking this job seriously enough. We are complicit in enabling these incompetent leaders who got us into this mess. We looked the other way because \u201cthe economy was good.\u201d We accepted arguments like, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter if a president or a governor or a prime minister is a good (or competent\/qualified) person, what matters is if they agree to support the policies of my party.\u201d We\u2019ve been telling our kids that character matters, but we didn\u2019t fully believe it and now we are being reminded of the timeless rule that <\/span>character is fate.<\/span><\/i> We didn\u2019t prioritize leadership and here we are\u2026 leaderless when we desperately need it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of us ignored the warnings. Most of us assumed <\/span>someone else<\/span><\/i> would solve this. Most of us let others do the talking for us. We didn\u2019t have emergency supplies handy. We didn\u2019t have a plan. And here we are\u2014in danger. Thankfully, kids seem to be remarkably (and mercifully) protected from COVID-19, but the rest of the world is not.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We need to remember what our primary job as fathers is. We can never neglect it. <\/span><\/p>\n

P.S.\u00a0<\/i><\/b>This was originally sent<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a> on March 27, 2020. Sign up today for <\/i><\/b>the Daily Dad’s email <\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span>and get our popular 11 page eBook, \u201c20 Things Great Dads Do Everyday<\/i><\/b>.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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