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 not fair that we do this. People have said it for generations, but supposedly kids these days are too soft.

They're entitled. They're politically extreme. They've got radical ideas about love and relationships.

They've got a bunch of made-up mental health issues. Maybe there is some truth to these generalizations,

but there is much more truth to Scott Galloway's observation that for all the gripes about coddling, the last

few decades are hard to define as anything but a war on young people. The climate has been abused.

The political system is captured not only by corporate interests, but the interests of older people.

Devastating wars have been waged to little point, squandering not just trillions of dollars, but so much credibility and trust in the process.

Kids these days have watched as the courts became nakedly political, clawing back rights and progress they assumed would always be there.

They watched their own parents embrace craven hypocrites as their representatives and their parents and grandparents own political

radicalization from social media and cable news. Meanwhile, everything is insanely expensive and nobody

is retiring and making room for the next generation. It's not the kid's fault, but it sure seems to be

their problem. It's like that Bible verse. The parents ate the sour grapes,

but the children got the sour taste. Needless to say, this is not how it's supposed to be.

Parents are supposed to forge a better world for their kids. They're supposed to sacrifice for

their kids. They're supposed to set their kids up for success. Instead, older generations seem to be

operating under that nasty principle of

after me, the flood, we'll be gone, so it won't matter. Our parents may have done this to us,

but we can do better for our children. The unfairness and frustration that we feel that's something

we should not pay forward, it's something that should stop with us. This is going

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