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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 they can't tell, you're doing it wrong. When people come over,

it should be obvious. When your older parents come over to visit, they should be a little appalled.

When you have to take a picture inside your house, you should have to move some stuff in order to do it.

When someone goes to sit in the back seat of your car, you should have to say, hang on a second, let me clean some of this up.

Because you have kids and because kids are messy.

As we've said before, your house, your car, your life is supposed to reflect that.

It would be weird if it didn't. If your parents from an older generation when kids were seen and not heard are not a little miffed, you are not making enough progress. If your car and your living room

are spotless, it means you're being strict and unreasonable with your

kids and yourself. It means you're prioritizing the wrong stuff. It means your house is not truly a home.

Because in a home, kids should be able to relax. They should be able to be kids. They should be

seen and heard and felt. They should be able to be maniacs because that's what kids are.

And you, as a well-regulated mature adult, should be able to be maniacs because that's what kids are. And you as a well-regulated mature adult should be able to handle this. Better yet, you should be able to embrace it and love it

because it won't be this way forever. Or so I tell myself when I look at my very messy house and my very dirty car.

Hey, thanks for listening to the Daily Dad podcast. You can get this via email every day as well

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