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.

Help them carry the fire. There are brief moments when you get a glimpse inside your

kid's soul. When they meet their

baby brother or sister for the first time and start to cry because of how much love they feel,

when they say something truthful and real in a way that adults would never dare, when they

offer to share what little they have with somebody else without you prompting. It's in these moments that you get a sense

that humans are born with inherent goodness. It's not just something we are taught. It's a gift

that comes to us at birth. There is purity there, innocence. And yet, as a grown-up, you've seen

enough of the world to know that most people are no longer innocent and pure and good.

So what does that mean?

It means your job as a dad is to protect and encourage and nurture that goodness.

In Cormick McCarthy's haunting novel, The Road, he calls this the fire.

A dad's job is to help their child carry the fire, to keep them safe long enough that this goodness can pass on to the next generation,

and that hope and light can remain in this dark world a little longer.

That's what you have to do today and every day.

Help them carry the fire, protect the gift, pass on the light. To wait.