Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast, where we provide one lesson every single day to help you with your most important job, being a parent.

I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from parents just like you all over the world.

Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

Put your focus here. You're at the store and you see a parent talking rudely to their kids or letting them run

around like it's their house.

You read some news story about a terrible new parenting strategy that drives you nuts.

Or maybe it's closer to home and you don't like how much time your spouse is spending on

their phone.

You know what you should do

about this? You should focus on being a better parent yourself. Our energy does not go very far when

simply emoted into the world in the form of disappointment or judgment. Our outrage at the world

does not put us in a better headspace with our own families. Nagging our spouse doesn't make

our relationships better. The best place for our energy for our focus is internally, because that's what we

control. And let's face it, there is more than enough room for improvement in ourselves. We all live in

glass houses as parents, so casting stones is not only misguided.

It's a form of child neglect. Let us try to improve ourselves more than we judge others. Let us focus

on what we actually control. And perhaps if we really do this, we'll become over time a model

that might nudge others in the right direction too.

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