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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. It's about those ordinary days. It starts off so exciting.

You're thrust into a totally new situation. You have a kid. And then so much happens and keeps

happening. Benchmarks where they take their first step, say their first word, where they learn to

write their name. But then what happens? It sort of slows down. You're just in it. In her fascinating

book, A Marriage at Sea, A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck,

Sophie Elmhurst tells the incredible story of Maurice and Marilyn stranded in a raft in the

Pacific after their ship sinks. Although they don't have kids, there's a powerful passage in the book

relevant to parents. After the wedding, she writes, after the honeymoon,

well, then it's just those days, ordinary days, the insurmountable self-renewing chores,

the bins, the laundry, the procession of meals. And those are the golden days, turns out,

the blissful boring days that you long for when things go wrong parenting is highs and lows sure

but it's also just so many ordinary regular days it's traffic on the way to school it's winter

evening when it's cold and it gets dark early it's the doctor's appointments and referrals to specialists. It's the

reminders to brush their teeth. It's dumping rocks out of their shoes. It's putting away hockey gear.

It's dishes. So many dishes. Quality time. And as we've said, garbage time. You've got to learn to

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