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daily stoic podcast designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom

into the real world.

Parenting can present us some of our greatest tests.

Your son has dyslexia.

Your oldest has behavioral issues.

The youngest is on the spectrum.

Your daughter has a chronic health issue. Your kid has trouble regulating emotions. These are challenges to be sure. Challenges for you, challenges for them. It's not easy and it's not cheap. There are accommodations you'll have to make. There will be things you need to buy. There will be things that you and they will not get to do. There will be heartbreak, heartbreak that both Marcus,

Aurelius, and Seneca experienced after the devastating loss of their own children far too young.

But as always, the Stoics remind us that everything has its compensation, if we choose to see it,

if we choose to welcome it. The challenges we face as parents become our greatest teachers and

guides. You'll have moments at the dialysis center that years from now you wouldn't trade for

anything. You'll develop patience and resilience that

you could not have otherwise imagined. They will too. You will learn how to advocate for yourself

and for them. You'll come face to face with this thing called acceptance. You will understand what it

means to love, to really love unconditionally.

This thing with your kid, you wouldn't have wished for it.

You wouldn't have wished it on them or indeed on any other parent.

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