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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 meant for this.

Look, it's obviously neater and cleaner.

It's obviously quieter and calmer.

It'll help your property values. It will protect your

stuff. It's easier if your kids stay in their rooms, or at least if most of their stuff does.

But we're not raising kids and we're not raising grass, as one of our most famous Daily Dad videos goes.

Our kids are not meant to stay in their rooms. Our living room is for living.

Our kids deserve the run of the whole place. Even though that means more cleanup, even though

that means stepping on Legos, even though that means sharing the couch with a moody teenager

or their friends, even though that means stuff is going to break. Let them turn the dining room table into a fort.

Let them turn the hallway into a racetrack. Let them play music with their friends in the garage.

Let them turn the living room into an imaginary world for their dolls. Let them pretend the spare

bedroom is a coffee shop. That's what those rooms are for.

That's what your house is for.

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