Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you

with your most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy,

by practical wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world. Thank you for

listening, and we hope this helps. Keep your head up and take another swing. No person has a

perfect track record. Certainly, no parent does. We all mess up. We all fall

short. We get our priorities wrong. We make mistakes. We lose our temper and our patience. We all handle

certain situations in ways we wish we hadn't. And is there anything worse than that feeling,

knowing that you screwed up, worrying

that it will screw them up, the guilt, the regret, the fear? What do you do? Shane Parrish,

creator of the wildly popular Farnham Street blog and host of the Knowledge Project podcast,

gave us some good advice when we talked to him a little while back. He said that the one

thing every father needs to know. He analogized it to the best thing a baseball player can do after a bad

at bat. Keep your head up, take another swing. As he explained, I remember calling my late mom one night

exhausted and feeling overwhelmed. I had lost my cool on the kids.

She gave me a piece of advice that stuck with me. If you don't learn to let go of your mistakes today,

they'll compound tomorrow. Get some sleep and start again tomorrow. I still remember that when I

have bad parenting days. Tomorrow, I've got to get up and start all over.

You can't go back to yesterday and undo what you did.

You can't magically unmake your mistakes.

You can't erase from their memories that time you lost your temper

or that time you said those things you regret saying.

But what you can do is make this one memory among many. What you can do

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