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.

One of my sons goes to a school that's totally outside. He's outside when it's raining. They go in creeks and rivers. They

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Every day, a little goes away. There is no moment that a childhood ends. There is no moment, no disrespect to graduations or bar mitzvahs or quinceaneras or selective service registrations, where anyone suddenly becomes an adult. No, it is a process. Seneca once said that our mistake is thinking of death as something that happens in the future, a single final event.

No, we are dying every day he wanted us to understand. And all passing time belongs to death.

And so it goes with childhood. Our kids don't grow up at some point. They are growing up right now,

today, a little more than yesterday.

And once tomorrow comes, today is lost to you and them forever. The point of this realization is not to make you anxious. If anything, it should calm you down. Right now matters. This moment is plenty.

Be here for it.

It's not this year or that year, this phase, or that milestone that you should be looking forward to.

It's what's happening here.

It's wonderful.

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