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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It can seem like they're distant.

It can seem like they don't like you like.

It can seem like they don't like you.

That's what children do, after all.

They try to discover what they like.

They try to separate themselves.

This defined the relationship between the writer

Franz Kafka and his stern successful father. His boy was different. He was sensitive. He seemed to luf.

He seemed like he was from another planet sometimes. Yet his Kafka details in his heartbreaking

and must-read book for parents. Letter to the father, which I love, and I recommend all the time.

He really did want to connect with his dad.

He was his own person, but he wanted to find something, anything he could share with this man

whose approval he craved deep down.

But this was not to be because Kafka's father could not see it.

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