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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StoryWorth.com slash daily dad. This is all temporary. We talked before about something all parents have to remember, especially when they're nearly dead from lack of sleep or nearly at wits' end with a difficult teenager. It's all a phase. They grow out of it. They grow up. It gets better. But of course, this bit of relief cuts the other way, too. A while back, we talked with Bill Perkins' observation from his book, Diwa Zero, where his daughter, who had previously loved nothing more than watching a certain Winnie the Pooh movie with him

was suddenly over it. Had he known that the phase would someday end, he realized he probably would

have watched it more with her or been more present as he did. He concluded with the same conclusion

we've been making here that everything in life is like that. For several years,

he writes, I was living the life of a dad who watches his favorite kids movies surrounded by his young

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