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.

The garage is a graveyard. You notice it one day the garage is a graveyard.

You notice it one day the garage is full.

A strollers no longer used.

First the single, then the double and the jogger.

The chair you and your spouse spent so many wee hours of the morning in, rocking the baby back to sleep in.

There is the balance bike, then the first one with pedals.

It's next to the trailer. You used to strap them in and There is the balance bike, then the first one with pedals. It's next to the

trailer. You used to strap them in and tow them behind your bike. The garage is a graveyard of

outgrown toys and furniture, accessories and activities. They'll never do again. It's a graveyard

owned by people who will never be again. Never be four years old or four months old, again, never

need training wheels again, never need to be carried in a stroller again. We can miss it as it's

happening because we're too busy because we're looking for what's coming next. We can grieve it,

we can deny it or hold on to the physical stuff forever. but this only denies the present moment by clinging

to the past. What counts is now. The only thing that isn't sad is now. The only way to make it

longer is to lock into the now, to take the extra time now, instead of rushing through it, instead of prioritizing

other stuff over it. Actually, a whole month in the new book, the Daily Dad book, is all about

tempest fugit, the idea that time flies, that they are growing and growing out of us at every single moment.

Then we have to soak it in.

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