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.

Is this really how you want tonight to go? Tomorrow you're heading out of town, or today is the last day of your trip,

or next week is their week with their mom. The point is you're at a point of transition,

or maybe approaching a transition. So why are you spending it like this? Why are you choosing to

pick this battle? Why are you on them about something so insignificant? When you're missing them tomorrow or next week, you're not going to be glad that you

sped up bedtime by two and a half minutes.

When you're looking back on this trip, you will not remember whether you had to ask them

an extra three times to do something.

You will not care about their attitude.

You will not dwell on the mess they made.

What you will regret is this argument. You will regret the conflict, regret that it went this way. You'll be kicking yourself for being

such a hard ass for making something out of nothing. You'll wish you had let it go. You'll wish you had been

more helpful, more understanding, more focused on what the real opportunity was there,

which was connection, which was a little more time together, which was laughing instead of fighting.

Okay. So give them and yourself the gift of choosing this over that right now. Hey, thanks for listening to the Daily Dad podcast.

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