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.

I was very excited when this came in the mail, not just as an investor, but as a fan of MagicSpoon cereal, which I have eaten so many boxes of over the years.

They just rolled out these new cereal bars, which you can check out.

And there's a cookies and cream one.

And when I got them, the first thing, not only did I eat one and my kids eat one, but then we had to save some for my father-in-law who also loves Magic Spoon, you know, when you were a kid, you loved eating sugary cereal, and you knew it probably wasn't good for you when it was called something like Cookie Crisp, or it had a picture of your favorite candy bar on it. I wouldn't give my kids that stuff today, but I do give them magic spoon,

because healthy breakfast doesn't have to be boring. a picture of your favorite candy bar on it. I wouldn't give my kids that stuff today,

but I do give them MagicSpoon because Healthy Breakfast doesn't have to be boring.

MagicSpoon has amazing flavors. You'll love, they'll love without the bad stuff.

You can go to magic spoon.com slash Daily Dad to grab a custom bundle of cereal and be sure to

use our promo code Daily Dad at checkout to save

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and try these cereal bars, man. They're really good. Thank you to MagicSpoon for sending them to me

and for sponsoring this episode. Guilt won't help. Maybe you weren't around right after they were born. Maybe your marriage isn't

what it could have been. Maybe it's because you just lost your temper, you had to move the family for work.

Or maybe it's because despite all that's happening in the world, you feel guilty that you're just not

doing enough. But that guilt, we feel it all the time. Some of us more than others. Of course, we feel it for what we've done as parents, for what we haven't done as parents, for what we think maybe we could or should or need to have done as parents. Here's the thing. The guilt doesn't help. It doesn't make you a better parent. It only makes you worse. If anything, it takes a toll on you that makes it harder for you to

actually do all the things that you think you should be doing for your kids. This job is hard enough.

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