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.

If money could talk, this is what it would say. You sweated for it, you worked for it, You saved it. You invested it. You may need it someday. But if your money could talk, do you know what it would say? It would say, spend me on your kids. It would say do it now, not later. Now, to be sure, this is not the same thing as rack up credit card debt or spoil them rotten,

but it is saying that right now your kids are young. Right now is for certain. So don't put things off.

Don't take things for granted. If you were ever going to move to the neighborhood with better schools,

going to do that trip to Europe as a family, if you ever going to get them a new bike,

if you're ever going to help them

with their bills, now is the time. Not when you get older, not when things settle down, not someday.

Now, we talked about this when we recommended the book Die Was Zero, which has some great parenting

lessons. You can grab it at the painting porch, where the author talks about the shockingly late

age at which people inherit money from their parents. And it's often when they are well past

the point of being financially secure long past the time they could have used to help. So if you're

in a position to spend, to support, to give, well, now is the time. Not later. Now.

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