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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That's BetterHelphelp.com slash daily dad. Do you know, do they? Do you know, do they? Of course, this parenting thing is hard. It's expensive. It's an enormous amount of work and responsibility. And yet, we are the luckiest people in the world, aren't we? Not just because, as we've said, it took a black swan of black swans for any of us to be here,

for us even to have our kids, especially those parents who struggled with fertility or adoption.

We've been given an incredible gift with this opportunity to be parents. While they are lucky to have a

parent like you, you are far luckier to have children

like them, kids who do their best, who do well when they can, as we've said, kids who make you

laugh, who remind you what joy and fun is, kids who have grown so much and made so much of what

you have given them. These thoughtful, wonderful, talented, funny kids who make your life better in so many ways because they keep you present, because they keep you honest, they hold you accountable, they reset your priorities and give you greater purpose.

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