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.

These are the richest kids. Everyone remembers the rich kids growing up.

Even rich kids remember the other richer kids.

We envied their ski trips, their huge houses, their equally big vacation houses,

their electronics, their clothes.

And yet how many of those kids, when we look at them now as adults,

appear to have actually been quite

poor? At home, they faced a poverty of attention, a deficit of happiness or stability. Maybe their

parents fought all the time. Maybe they worked constantly. Maybe they played favorites. And none of those

favorites were their kids. As adults, we now realize that to be rich is not necessarily to be wealthy, especially as wealth

comes in many forms.

And this is very good news.

All of us have the ability to give our kids a rich life.

We can measure wealth in the time and attention they get with you, whether or not they

feel safe and secure, whether their house feels like a home,

even if you only make $30,000 a year. You can make your kid the richest kid in the whole school

without spending a dollar. We here at Daily Dad have been hard at work, developing what we're

calling the parent to be, a daily dad parenting challenge. It's a 30-day

challenge designed to give soon-to-be parents the kind of preparation that soon-to-be parents need.

Every day, it's a challenge teaching these future or once-again parents how to get on the same

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