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 you who they deserve to get this from. Innately, we all seek to be respected, to be admired, to be wanted,

to be loved. We want to feel empowered. We want to be believed in. We want to matter. Every person

wants this. And your kid is one of those people. There is a haunting passage in Mary

Renault's beautiful historical novel, The Last of the Wine, where Alexis explains what drew him to

Socrates, even more so than his own father. His father were made to see was distant and restrained,

often unyielding, and in the way of the ancients, had at first considered his son too weak to be

worth raising. But Socrates, a lover of the mind, saw much potential in young Alexis,

whom he sat next to in a music class, which he had taken despite being rather old. Here is a father

who would not think me a disgrace to him, Alexis says, but would love me and would not want to

throw me away on the mountain. In short,

Socrates saw Alexis. He encouraged him. He took him seriously. He made time for him. He gave him

the things that every person craves and deserves. But who do we crave it most from? Who do our

kids deserve it most from? Who do our kids deserve it most from?

Who does it mean the most coming from?

From mom and dad.

So you must give it to them, give it to them freely and deliberately and often.

Because coming from you, it doesn't just build them up.

It shapes who they believe they are and who they will become.

Thank you. who they believe they are and who they will become. Hey, thanks for listening to the Daily Dad podcast.

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