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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 supposed to look like this.

Your car is disgusting.

There are crumbs everywhere in sports gear and stacks of artwork.

The back door of your house is bordered by a maze of kicked off shoes and backpacks and jackets. Your walls have smudges

and your windows are covered in handprints. Your laundry room is overflowing. Good. That's how it's

supposed to be. You have kids. It would be

weirder if it didn't look this way. What would actually be disordered would be priorities that

placed cleanliness over lived-inness, spending time admonishing and scrubbing over spending time together,

having fun together,

over peace. There is, of course, some point where it gets beyond reason, but that's not what

we're talking about. We're talking about this perverse impulse to impress people who don't live

with you, about trying to reach some impossible social media standard,

about trying to get back to how it was when you were a kid,

back, you know, when parents ruled by threats and withholding when kids were seen and not heard.

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