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 won't love this forever. It's like a kind of insane infatuation. They become obsessed our kids with dinosaurs and

trash trucks and tractors, with Disney characters and soundtracks, with bunnies and sharks and

mermaids. And for a period, our lives revolve around these obsessions. We take them to an air show because we know that seeing that many planes will blow their mind.

We take them to a train museum and, of course, that trip to Disneyland.

We point out every cow or construction site or fire engine.

We put the song on, on repeat.

We sing it to them on command because it makes them happy, because it keeps their interest, because even though it sometimes drives us crazy, we get into it too. But we can forget that this is a temporary madness, that the obsession does not last. Its power is waning imperceptibly each day. They will soon

get over it. One day they will not even look up when we tell them we hear an ambulance or a helicopter.

They will not respond to the song. They will shrug their shoulders when you tell them Mickey is on TV.

None of it lasts, and soon enough you will miss it.

So embrace the insanity.

Enjoy the madness while it's here.

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