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.

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They deserve to know. It's dark stuff. It's not pleasant. We wish it wasn't true,

but that doesn't mean we can hide it from our children because it did happen.

It can easily happen again if we're not careful.

John G. Burnett knew this.

That's why on his birthday in 1890, he finally told his children what happened when he was in

the Army in 1838.

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