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 are your work.

Brian Kaplan is a busy economist.

He's also a busy parent of four kids, all of whom he now

homeschools. Might having that many kids and that much education to supervise impede on his career?

Probably. But as Brian tells his grad students as well as his children, you are not an interruption of my work.

You are my work. All of us are busy. We have a lot to manage and we have conflicting responsibilities.

Still, we can't ever forget what our real job is. Our job is to raise great kids. Or actually, as we've said before, our job is to raise

great adults. The time we spend with our kids, whether it's homeschool or on the couch watching a

TV show, this is not a distraction from our work. It is work, really important work. Who could really view their life as successful if they were

famous but their kids were struggling? Who would be truly happy accepting a Nobel Prize

knowing that they'd failed as a parent? What good would a billion dollars be if all the

money in the world couldn't buy happiness for your family.

And that's why kids can never take away from our careers or hold us back.

They can't interrupt our work because they are our work.

We are always teaching them.

We are teaching them that we care.

We are being there for them.

We are stating our priorities.

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