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 Holliday, 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.

Give what you didn't get.

Forgive what you did.

As we've said before, each of us as parents have to try to give what we didn't

get as kids, the attention, the support, the understanding. Whatever it is, we have to try to be our

best to be better for our kids. That can be encouraging them to be who they are, even if you don't

agree or understand. It's making sure that you give them space to fail while showing them support

and encouragement to try again. Maybe it's choosing to be an ancestor and not a ghost. But the other side of this

is harder. We have to also strive to forget what we did get, forget what hurt us, what we struggled

with, the yelling, the lack of understanding. We can't keep carrying that around with us or make

us impossible to give our

children what they need today. A walking wound can't be a good mother or a father. A pile of

resentments is not safe to have near children. We have to process. We have to work on ourselves.

We have to be able to move on. That's the only way we're going to be able to give what we didn't get.

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