Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you with your

most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical

wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world.

Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

This is how to act. It's confusing to be a parent these days, confusing to be a father too,

because roles are in a state of flux. Expectations are always increasing, and of course the world

is an enormous mess. There's a pandemic, civil unrest, an unpredictable economy, a cultural war.

What are you supposed to do? What should your

priorities be? What do you focus on? Terrence, the great Roman playwright, a former slave,

has a wonderful prescription for fathers. It's 2,000 years old. That's the thing about good

advice. It's timeless and true in every situation. Act in such a way that your son will feel that you

are his father, he said. Act in such a way that he can dare to entrust you with all things,

that it will be from you, that he will seek and beseech all things. You have to be the adult.

You also have to make it clear that you are for and with them. You don't need to tell them that they can trust you or count on you. You have to show them that. All the stuff that's going on in the world, yeah, it's tough, but it's also the opportunity of a lifetime to teach your kids about what's important, to show them what it looks like to be on the right side of the right issues,

to show them what their responsibilities are as people, as good people.

You can talk all you want about what being a good man is like, about how much it means to you to be a father.

But that doesn't matter.

What matters is that you're acting that way

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