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.

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Aren't we the lucky ones?

It could be easier.

Certainly life and society are not fair.

Families like yours could be better supported.

It would be nice if your family didn't have this issue or that one if this or that hadn't happened or if it had gone differently. And in any case, we are awfully exhausted. And it can be hard

sometimes to think about how good we have it. But we do have it good. We really, really do.

There's a beautiful scene in Claire Keegan's short but powerful

novel, small things like these, which you can grab at the painted porch. We just had it as a

book club book. And it's worth pulling out here for every parent who's burned out, resentful,

or just in the middle of it. Sometimes for long, seeing the girls going back through the small

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