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.

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There are lots of ways to read, ways that have improved the experience and opened up

the world of literature to people who otherwise would have missed out. Ebooks are awesome.

Audio books are spectacular. They let you read anywhere. They let you read faster. They let you read

while you're multitasking, all from the convenience of a device in your pocket that's smaller

than the smallest book.

But that's sort of the problem, isn't it?

Your kids have no idea that that's what you're using your phone for.

To them, you could just as easily be on Twitter.

You could be answering emails or working like you always do.

You could be betting on sports.

So it's important, especially when they're young, that your kids see you reading, reading

physical books, so they can see reading as the standalone essential activity that it is.

Let them see you in a chair engrossed in a novel.

Let them see you on a plane reading a business book instead of spacing out in front of the

screen.

Let them see a big stack of biographies on your

nightstand. As Horace Mann said, no parent has a right to raise their kids in a home without books.

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