Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast.

Every Dad needs a little help, and that's why we made this podcast.

It's one inspiring, philosophically driven, historical-driven, lesson about fatherhood that you can use to do your

most important job a little bit better.

Don't just protect yours. We take care of our own, we say. Family is family. Blood is thicker than

water. These are noble sentiments that have encouraged beautiful sacrifice, forgiveness, and

accomplishments. One problem with it, though, is that it too easily justifies provincialism

and nepotism. A recent social critic observed that not so long ago when

people talked about getting together to do something for our kids, whether it was build a

swimming pool or invest in education, it was obvious that they meant everybody's kids, or at least

they meant more than just their biological kids. But unfortunately, that's

changed. When we say our own, we don't think Americans or whatever country we live in, we think

race, or we think blood relatives, and that's awful. This system we live in demands that we think

of ourselves as more than just our parents to our own kids.

We have to think generationally.

We can't just think about getting ours or protecting ours.

We have to think like a village, like a group.

The Stoics remind us that we are made for each other.

Marcus Aurelius spoke dozens of times about the common good.

He didn't just care about his kids.

He cared about everybody's kids because that's what justice, doing the right thing, demands of us.

It's better to think of our kids as everybody.

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