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.

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Remember this about most people.

There's no question your kids are in for a rude awakening. They grew up almost entirely

around people who cared about them. In some cases, people who cared about them more than anything in the

world. But soon enough, your kids will discover that this is not the real world, or at least

not the whole world. There are a lot of selfish people out there, cruel people, stupid

people, even evil people, and sometimes they're all one person. Your kids are going to meet some of

these people. Are they ready? But perhaps a better question is, are you ready to make sure, as we've

said, that your cynicism doesn't affect your children too early.

We can't pass on the psychic burden of our own experiences and frustrations with the people from our past.

There's a great children's book called Most People that reminds us that most people are good.

Most people are trying as hard as they can. Most people

will help you if they can. Most people want the same things, the book says. Most people are happy.

Even the people who aren't, the author reminds us, would rather be happy if they could.

And this is the difficult tension we have to resolve as parents. We have to prepare our children for a world that is not all sunshine and kittens.

We also have to get them to understand that the darkness in this world is not complete.

In fact, it's distinctly the minority.

We want our kids to carry the fire to keep the brightness alive.

We want them to seek it out in other people.

And we want them to be like out in other people, and we want them

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