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.

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If you want to spend more time with your kids, as we said recently, the important thing is that

you don't drive them away. Yet that's what so many of us do, isn't it? Because we worry, because we care, because we can't

quite strike the right balance, our efforts end up backfiring. Think of John O'Connor's mom,

whose smothering tendencies drove her son to move from California to Arizona just to get some distance.

There's no way she wanted that to happen, but she made it happen all the same. Think of Tim Hardaway Senior,

whose drive to make his son a great basketball player, nearly made Tim Hardaway Jr. quit the

sport altogether, as so many of us do in our own ways. In the February 9th entry in the Daily

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