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.

Tell them more than once.

Do you remember the best piece of advice you got from your dad?

Are there sayings from childhood that have stuck to you? That time when you were getting teased

and dad told you that it was what was on the inside that counted, that time when you were drifting

towards the wrong crowd and they reminded you that we become like our friends. That advice is seared in your memory.

It was a pivotal moment, and now you want to have those own moments with your kids.

Good for you.

But perhaps it's worth noting how faulty our memories are and how deceivingly we simplify things with the passage of time.

You mean my dad didn't really say that? No, he did. In fact,

he probably said it dozens of times. We've talked about it here before. It's not about a pivotal

moment. It's about moments. It's not about one conversation fraught with meaning. It's about

countless conversations. It's about saying and doing the right things,

the wise things over and over and over again until they sink in. Lost, when we just remember one

moment, is all the moments and conversations that went into making us ready for it. Lost are all

the other times they told us and we didn't listen. Lost or all the times they lived the advice they gave us

so that we might actually understand what it meant. Remember that. Realize you are going to have to

tell your kids more than once. You are going to have to keep being there. Keep showing up. Keep

proving the ideas over and over and over again, just like your parents did.

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