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. We hope this helps. They owe you nothing. Yes, you've done a lot for your kids.

You brought them into this world. You wipe their

butts. Maybe you even paid for all their years of grad school. It can be easy for parents,

after all they've done, to feel like they are entitled to certain things. Whether that's

respect or gratitude or influence over their children's choices, it is this belief that sits at the root

of much conflict inside families. Mom and dad get used to being in charge, get used to deciding

how things go and think that it should always stay that way. Or they're tired of having done all

that and think it's time to sit back and be taken care of. Except that's not

how this works. To be clear, your kids owe you nothing. You owe them everything. As they say so

beautifully in the book The Little Prince, we are responsible forever for the things we have tamed. The fact that you brought your

kids into this world doesn't put them in your debt. On the contrary, it means you are on the hook

for the rest of your days. This is what you signed up for. This is the job. Put your ego aside.

Put your entitlements aside. Don't look for the third thing, as Marcus Aurelius says,

the recognition, the reparation, the return on investment. The reward is the work. The responsibility

is the payoff. They don't owe you anything. And just a heads up, ego is the enemy.

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