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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've always been this way, so get ready. They blew past their curfew again. They woke up

crouchy, again. They ignored you and walked away in the middle of a conversation.

They're convinced the world revolves around them. They think they know better about everything.

They walk around slamming doors. They eat everything. That this is unpleasant is understandable.

That it surprises you? Not so much. Emily Wilson,

whose edition of the Odyssey we carry at the Painter Porch in Love, she explains how she translated

the description of the hero's teenage son, Telemachus. I have tried to make sure that a reader

can feel inside the characters in the poem, she said,

to convey the ways that each character in the poem has his or her own distinctive point of view.

The immaturity and vulnerability of telemachus, for example, when he tries to speak out against the suitors,

but ends up bursting into tears.

He stopped, frustrated, flung the scepter down, burst out,

crying, she translates. Some of the other words she translated for immature, for telemachus across

the epic poem are moodily, brooding, sullen. Does this sound familiar? That's every teenager ever. Not just you when you were a kid, but all kids, even those in ancient Greece. You were like that back then. Why would they be any different than any other teenager at any other point in time? As we've said here before many times, kids are kids.

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