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.

Now is the time for wisdom.

It doesn't matter how old you are or how old your kids are.

You have more experience than them.

In some cases, that's a couple decades.

In other cases, it's many decades.

But whatever the age difference between you and your kids, you've lived longer and been through

more.

Well, now as the world faces all sorts of troubles,

it's time to draw on that wisdom. It's time for you to use your authority and your experience

to guide them, to help them with what is an unimaginably stressful and unfamiliar experience.

That's what dads do. That's why you called for yours to help you when you were buying

your first house. That's why you went to them crying the first time you got dumped. It's why when you

were struggling and not even quite sure how or why. Your dad was able with just a few oblique words

to manage to get you back on track because they'd been there before, because they had a better

sense of how things tend to work out. Whether you've got a three-year-old or a 13-year-old or a

30-year-old, that's what your kids need today. It's what they're going to need for as long as

you're around, a nudge, a reassurance, a bit of perspective, some little story from your past

about a mistake you made when you were their age, a recommendation of perspective. Some little story from your past about a mistake you made when

you were their age, a recommendation or maybe even an admonishment. The wisdom you have acquired,

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