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 them now while you can. Life is easy now. We should just let them enjoy it, right? Before they have to work

for a living, before they care about what's going on in the world, while they can still do whatever

they want, while they can get away with eating whatever they want, and all the innocent freedoms

that children are blessed with, right? Sort of, but there is a tension here, because living in the moment now is not always the

best preparation for moments to come. As Plutarch advised parents and teachers, just as in

fair weather then one ought to prepare for the storm, so also in youth should one store up

discipline and self-restraint as a provision for old age. So now is the time also for lightness and

fun, as well as the time to prepare for a future that will not always be so light and fun. Today they need

freedom, but tomorrow they need to know how to cope with less freedom. Tomorrow they will need

self-discipline and to know how to deal with a world where

adults can do whatever they want, but have the responsibility not to. Prepare them now while you can.

Teach them restraint, teach them the difference between could and should, want, and need,

legal and ethical, because when the storm comes, when the future comes, they will need this skill

and it will be too late to learn it then. Thanks for listening to the Daily Dad podcast. It would

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