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.

Do your actions match your values?

We tell ourselves we're good people. We support good causes.

We vote for the right candidates. We are disgusted when we hear people say bigoted or cruel things.

And yet, are we really good people? Or are we just as selfish and self-absorbed as those we try

to distinguish ourselves from, albeit with the veneer of polite society.

A good place to start when it comes to answering this question is Caitlin Flanagan's recent

viral Atlantic piece about the moral indefensibility of elite private schools. It ought to be

mandatory reading for every parent, frankly, but particularly those in the upper income brackets who might

protest that they're only doing what's best for their children. But even if we are not sending

our kids to Choate or Harvard Westlake, it's worth taking a minute to look at our actions

inaction. Did you move neighborhoods to get away from the bad school and leave the bad soccer

program for the elite expensive one?

Instead of investing in trying to make either one better?

Did you cheerlead social change on social media, but you actually live in a privileged bubble?

Do you complain about the injustices of the college admissions process while you secretly fight to secure every competitive advantage for your own

kids inside track. We've talked about teaching your kids by example. Well, it starts with the choices

you make about raising your kids, where you send them to school, what programs you put them in,

what kind of company you keep and encourage them to keep. Because those choices define the world in which your children

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