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 Holliday, 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. This is a very underrated skill. There are

parents who pay for music lessons so their kids can play an instrument. There are parents who tutor their kids in a foreign language. There are parents who pay for music lessons so their kids can play an instrument. There are

parents who tutor their kids in a foreign language. There are parents who teach their kids out to do

all sorts of things, to start a campfire, to change a flat tire, to save a button, to sew a button.

And these are skills of various importance. Some will help them get into college. Some will make them

more comfortable in a diverse world. Some will make them handy. Some will make them handy. Some will help them get into college. Some will make them more comfortable in a diverse world.

Some will make them handy. Some will make them handy. But there is a very underrated skill that we talked about recently in a weekend episode of The Daily Dad, which you should be listening to.

And that skill? It's the ability to deal with frustration appropriately because life is full of

frustration and most people are. And most people are so, so bad at dealing with it. To be able to model

for your kids how to deal with a poorly designed piece of technology that won't work,

the ability to respond to the news of a flight

delay on top of a flight delay, or a person speaking to you rudely or an unexpected expense or being

interrupted. What an incredible gift you are giving them. What an underrated skill. It may well be that

there is nothing more important, nothing more essential to their

resilience and their happiness than this. Certainly nothing will come up more often.

So think about that today when you get cut off in traffic, when the dishwasher breaks,

when you find out that your credit card was stolen, when your boss calls and moves up a deadline.

This is frustrating, but it's also an opportunity to teach your kids how to deal with frustration.

And that's not frustrating. It's wonderful.

Obviously, getting up early is a part of stoicism, but that's only worthwhile if you've gotten a good night's sleep.

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