Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you with your

most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical

wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world.

Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

Are you inspiring them with this?

There's a lot of darkness in the world, a pandemic, corrupt and failed politicians,

institutions groaning under the weight of modern problems.

Maybe your neighbors are a jerk or your boss sucks.

It can be easy to feel depressed about how things are.

It can be easy to pass this on to your children.

But how is that fair to them?

You're going to let your cynicism infect them this early?

No.

Both of you need to seek out inspiring stories.

You need to look for the good and praise it and savor it.

As Plutarch writes, quoting a poet,

should teach while still a child the tale of noble deeds.

You have to read them biographies, tell them

stories, tell them of Cincinnati, read them poems about the greats, watch great movies

together, show them videos of kids doing nice things, or of ordinary heroes making the world

a better place. Fill their heads with stories of greatness and goodness, not despair and darkness.

Let them know that people can make a difference.

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