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.

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it's not enough to just be around. Many of us remember from our own childhood just how absent our

parents were. They were working. We were at daycare. Or we were Lachke kids. They got up and left us,

leaving us to be raised by a single parent or a relative. Or perhaps we remember that even when they

were home, how little interest they actually had in us, how little time they had for us.

Not that long ago, much of this was not just common practice, but widely accepted. There is a very

sad exchange between Churchill and his son after they had spent a long evening chatting.

We tell this story actually at the beginning of The Daily Dad. You know, my dear boy, Winston said,

I think I have talked to you more in these holidays than my father talked to me in his whole life.

So the fact that on average, this generation spends more time with their kids than previous

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