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 Holliday, 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 just too much for them.

The amount of choices we have today is not normal.

Certainly, it's quite new.

When you were a kid, which was not

that long ago, how many channels were there on TV? Even cable, which radically expanded that number,

was still finite and nothing compared to streaming. There was no infinite scroll. YouTube only

rolled out autoplay at the end of videos in the last decade. And this is only discussing what we

watch. There is essentially an

unlimited choice in what we listen to, who we date, where we travel, what we eat. It is an unimaginable

abundance and ungodly stressful for your kids. It has to be. It's stressful for you, isn't it?

In a recent episode of The Daily Stoke, the filmmaker Casey Nystatt was talking about how, in his family, they've taken to watching movies on a big

television in their family room or in the bedroom because iPads were overwhelming and causing

problems. They turn on a movie like Moana and they watch it. No changing, no switching. It's

out of their hands and it's on the wall. You could do the same thing

turning on your radio in the car, handing over control to the DJ, submitting to commercials.

This might not seem like an important practice, but it is. The bigness, the infiniteness of the

world is wonderful, but oppressive if we're too young. We can protect our kids from that a little.

We can take some of the power

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