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.

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Delay, delay, delay. You're angry. That's understandable. Your boss has been awful. The contractor still hasn't finished fixing the bathroom. You just spilled coffee on your shirt. Or maybe it's one of those days with the kids. One kid lied to you about doing their homework. The other talked back to their mother. A third made scrambled eggs and forgot to turn off the stove. Before you do respond, before you scream, are you trying to burn my house down? Can you do

something? And by something, actually, nothing? Can you just wait for a little bit? Seneca said that

delay is the greatest remedy for anger. And that's the truth. Delay is also the best way to let your

mind clear, to make sure that anger isn't going to make you do something you regret.

Anger is an exaggerator. It sees the worst in a situation. Anger is an exacerbator too.

Ticks a bad situation and makes it worse with its overreaction. Delay will help you make sure that that won't happen. No one is saying you can't respond at all. You probably will have to address this.

You will have to say something.

They do need to learn that lying is not acceptable,

that talking back to a parent is not tolerated.

Leaving the stove on could burn the house down.

Wait a minute.

Let cooler heads prevail.

Turn it into a teachable moment.

And if you are struggling with temper with anger over at Daily

Stoak, we have our tame your temper course, which is, you know, 13 or so days of Stoke-inspired

lessons on managing your temper. Think you'll really like it. You can check that out at

Dailystoke.com slash temper. One of the weird parts about being a parent is it sort of made me a kid

again. Every night after dinner, I have a big bowl of cereal.

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