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.

I am very excited because what just arrived on my desk here, I'll even let you listen to me

open it, is my first

book that I made with Art Kive. We just have so much fricking art for my kids, school, tutoring,

the placemats you get at restaurants. We didn't want to lose it all. We also didn't want to

keep it all. And so we mailed a bunch of it to the folks at Archive. They took amazing pictures of it. So I have a digital backup. And then they turned it into this beautiful book. And the pictures are like super good. My kids are going to be pumped. The cover has my son's handwriting on it. It sayses erupted. It rained for thousands of years.

Very ominous, but actually quite beautiful, and I absolutely love it. The process is simple.

They send you a box. It's got a prepaid envelope in it, and then they photograph it all professionally

and turn it into a keepsake book. And you can get started today for 14 bucks. It's $25 off an archive book and then you make a

second payment based on how much art you send. I send quite a bit of art. You just go to archive.com

and use code Daily Dad for $25 off your box today.

It never really holds up, does it?

You've seen it your whole life.

Kids misbehaving in public.

Kids half feral.

Kids who aren't listening.

Kids who are causing serious trouble.

Kids who really need someone to rein them in. But when a parent or a

grandparent steps in and gets upset, have you ever once in your life not felt shame and pity?

Even for the most out-of-control kids, when you see a parent grab them by the arm, when you hear

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