Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you with your most important job being a dad.

These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world. Thank you for

listening, and we hope this helps. It's good that you worry about this. The question hits you in a

soft place. It hits you when you least expected, and yet it's there

constantly. Am I a good parent? Am I doing enough? Am I screwing this up? It's reassuring to say every

parent thinks this, but it's actually not true. There are, in fact, two types of parents who never

think that. There are the parents who are so

confident, so self-absorbed, so convinced that they and their family are at the center of the

universe that they never question themselves. And these, of course, never turn out to be good

parents. And then, of course, there are the bad parents who have quit on themselves and their

family. They've decided they don't have what it takes.

So they ran away or they spend their precious time and energy feeling that it's hopeless,

that there's nothing they can do. They are too busy thinking about themselves and their own flaws

to help anyone else. But you, the type of parent who is checking in and wondering,

am I doing enough, who actually cares about whether they're doing a good job?

This is, by definition, a good parent, parents that their kids are lucky to have.

A sociopath doesn't spend much time worrying about whether they're a sociopath. Such a thing

would never occur to them. In this case, it's proof that you care, that you have self-awareness,

that you're improving, that you would stop to evaluate your own performance, that's proof that you care, that you have self-awareness, that you're improving,

that you would stop to evaluate your own performance, that it would bother you to give anything less than the full measure of your devotion.

So when you feel that thought, that doubt come up today, feel reassured.

It means you're doing a good job.

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