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Your kids are learning just as much from your contradictions as they are from your advice. Award-winning journalist and author Tom Junod joins Ryan to talk about the complicated legacy of his father, what it really means to be a good man, and how we choose which lessons to pass on to our own kids.

Tom Junod is senior writer for ESPN, where his work has won an Emmy and the Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting. He is a two-time winner of the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, and a winner of the James Beard Award for essay writing. Previously he was a staff writer at GQ and Esquire. The film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood was based on his article in Esquire.

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They’d love to be there, but they can’t. They can’t make it. Well…they could turn it down, they just won’t.

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They are full of surprises. They have endless needs. There is always something coming up…and it’s usually last-minute.

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Teach them to give themselves a few seconds of courage. Tell them something great will come of it. Promise them.

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Linger. Slow down. Let it take as long as it takes.

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