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.

They're always your child.

There's a beautiful line in the haunting novel The Bear,

which is about a man and his daughter, who are the last two humans on earth. It comes towards

the end. The father is gone. The daughter is older. She is visiting the graves of her parents.

A girl no longer, the books describes her, though forever, their child. We have to remember that

while we're on this journey. They're going to get older. Someday, perhaps someday soon, they'll stop

being a little boy or a little girl, but they'll never ever stop being your child. And it's

important to realize that that is what you are to your own parents and grandparents.

This job we signed up for doesn't stop just because they're under their own power now.

It doesn't stop even when they make more money than us, even when they become president or a power

forward in the NBA. The point of pointing this out is to remind you, you remain on duty,

on the clock always. And as we've talked about, you'll go on teaching them with the decisions

and choices you make when they're older by the example you set. The things you're doing now

will go on teaching them long after you're gone as well. But as long as you're alive, they're still your

child and you are still there to serve and even after. And that is a beautiful thing.

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