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.

Go the fuck to sleep. How could you possibly be patient or fun or supportive or curious or attentive

when you're dead tired? It's impossible. So what exactly are you doing on your phone scrolling

through TikTok or tweets at 11 p.m? You should be asleep. Of course, nothing messes with our sleep quite like having

kids. From the jump, they are waking up in the middle of the night. And then as they get older,

piling so much on our plate from morning swim practices to schools that start at 7 a.m.

That we barely have time for ourselves, let alone to get a full eight hours of sleep. And yet we must. We must figure out

away. We can't be what our kids need without it. You sleep trained your kids. You endured nights of

crying and screaming and desperate calls to mom and dad because you knew how important it was for your

kid to get good, regular, uninterrupted sleep.

Now you have to sleep train yourself.

You have to practice, as they say in the military, good sleep discipline.

No procrastinating before bed.

No phone by the bedside table.

No falling asleep with the TV on.

Follow the advice of the classic kids book.

Go fuck sleep. go fuck to sleep.

Prioritized sleep. Take it seriously because the more well-rested you are, the better a parent

you will be. Hey, thanks for listening to the Daily Dad podcast. You can get this via email

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