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.

Pain is a part of life.

Oh, how you wish you could make sure they never suffered. Oh, how you wish you could make sure they never suffered.

Oh, how you wish you could have prevented these last couple weeks.

You don't want them to be scared.

You don't want them hurt.

You don't want them to miss out on anything to tell them they can't see their friends,

that they can't go to prom, to have to say, as many dads are saying right now,

sorry, we can't afford that. But guess what?

That's not possible. We've talked about this before. As the character in Herman Hess's book says,

we cannot spare our kids the suffering we have gone through in our own lives. We cannot prevent them

from suffering at all because suffering and pain are a part

of life. Our job as fathers then is what? It's to raise kids tough enough, loved enough, to deal

with what life is going to throw at them. Remember what Frederick Douglass said, a man who experienced

pain and whose kids and grandkids

did too, it's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

So think about that today.

Think about toughening your kids up.

Think about preparing them for an uncertain time because that is the one thing we know for certain things are

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