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.

They're probably just tired of this.

When they're grouchy, when they're glass-eyed, when they're

stuck, when they're making choices that don't quite make sense, there could be many reasons

why your kids are acting this way. They could be tired, as we've said before. They're almost

certainly hungry. As we've said, that's the root of most problems. They could be depressed.

They could be going through something and just not

understand what it is. But one thing it could well be is pretty simple. They're dealing with

decision fatigue. It's just not normal how many choices kids are faced with today. It's totally

unprecedented in the history of the world. When you were a kid, there were a few movies, a few

radio stations, a few places to eat. You didn't have a device in your pocket that gave you

access in an instant to anything and everything ever made. When you were a kid, how many

different clicks and scenes were there? A handful. Now your kids through social media can

consider every trend, every subgroup, everyone imaginable.

There's lifestyles open to them, gender expressions, political views, career paths that they would

never have even known existed not long ago. And now the option, the opportunity, the invitation is there.

And this is wonderful, but it's also incredibly overwhelming. And you know this because it's

overwhelming to you. As a parent and as a professional, you know decision fatigue well. Those days when

you've made so many choices that you can't bear to decide what to order for dinner. Those days when

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