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 something you should do. When they're

young, when they're asleep, when they're older, when you're old, when you're on vacation,

after a big Thanksgiving meal early in the morning before school, in the afternoons when you're visiting their new family, this is one thing you should do with your kids. You should go for a walk with them. Long walks, short walks, hikes, on trails, on the road, to a destination, in a loop, in a stroller with a baby bjorn them struggling to keep up with you you struggling to

keep up with them it doesn't matter it's all good we talked about john adams there's that great

mccola bio that we sell at the painted porch i'll link to that we've talked about his fascinating

relationship with his son john quincy hang on sorry i got. Yes, I do. I'll come right down.

Speaking of which, that was my son calling through my wife. He wants to get ice cream and go for a walk,

so I'm going to finish this email and follow my own advice. We've talked about him and his fascinating

relationship with his brilliant son, John Quincy. When the two of them were in Paris, while Adams

was 53, they would walk five to six

miles together each morning. Can you imagine the conversations they had, the things they were able

to share and to connect about? Even if they passed it in total silence, the time alone together must

have been wonderful. We've talked about those famous 20,000-year-old footprints in White Sands National Park, some of the

oldest evidence of humans in North America, and it's depicting just another timeless and universal

version of that very scene, a parent carrying and walking with a child passing the time being

together. You'll never regret taking a walk, especially if you do it with your family.

It's good for the body.

It's better for the mind.

It's amazing for relationships.

Get together.

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