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 happening in your house too. It's been a while. You know that, but not that long. It's why it catches you off

guard. Your friend tells you that their son, whom you remember being very little just turned 10.

You're catching up with an old neighbor who had a kid a couple years before you and they

blindside you with news that their daughter got her driver's license. You get an invitation to a college graduation. What? This can't be

right. It sneaks up on you. They were a baby and now they're not. Because we're so busy in our own lives,

we forget about, we lose track of the thing that's happening always in the background, the passage

of time. But it's there. It's always there.

And not just in other people's lives, obviously. It's happening to us too. Only a couple of years

separates toddlers from preteens. One day they're starting high school and not long after

they're taking internships in other countries for the summer. They go from infants to kids

with personalities and preferences so fast. We can't lose track of this in the day-to-dayness of it all,

not at least when it comes to our own families. It's perfectly reasonable to fall out of touch with

friends, especially when we're busy with our own growing families.

But we can't let it sneak up on us that every day our kids are growing older, that very soon

they'll be in that next phase of life, that time moves very quickly, that one day will miss

their cries in the middle of the night or picking them up from school. These days are fleeting.

Embrace them before they are gone.

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