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.

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Teach them real class. Of course we want our kids to have class, that is to say,

a strong sense of decency and taste,

restraint, and grace with a set of values that have become virtues by virtue of having consistently

lived those values.

The question is, how do you teach this?

How do you pass on this sort of ineffable, effortless sense of self?

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