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.

Prepare because it's inevitable.

Your kids came into your life as a blessing.

They brought you unalloyed joy.

They are the source of so much happiness and positivity.

But you have to remember, it won't always be like this.

We did a Daily Stoic email recently about a haunting line from a long fellow poem.

Into every life, he writes, some rain must fall.

No matter how happy, how blessed, how fortunate your family is, this will be true for you.

Your kids will get sick, they will get hurt, jobs will be lost, struggles will be had,

tragedies will strike. As they say, poor people have poor

problems. Rich people have rich people problems. White people have white people problems. Black people have

black people problems. The common thread uniting us all is problems. This is life. There is no

escape, or rather, the only way to avoid tragedy and pain

is itself a source of pain and tragedy, living a shrunken, sheltered life of no color, no striving,

no adventure. So you must prepare yourself. You must prepare your kids too. Rain is going to fall.

Things will not always be amazing and wonderful.

No, dark days will puncture the halo of goodness created by all the breezy sunny ones. Don't

pretend otherwise. But also don't forget that those dark days are what creates the contrast

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