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.

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This is the highest praise.

There is one way to judge in the end whether you've done this thing right.

It's not based on how rich your kids get. It's not whether they make it into Yale or whether

they turn out to be handsome or beautiful or smart or famous. In the end, the ultimate test of a father's

worth is, do your kids want to spend time with you? Of course, we can make some exceptions for those rough teenage years

or whether they like being seen with you in front of their friends.

What we're talking about is simply this.

Does your presence now, then, in the future,

do you make their lives better or worse?

Accordingly, do they want to have you around?

In the book, my first coach, inspiring stories of

NFL quarterbacks and their dads by Gary Myers, Tom Brady's father, Tom Brady Sr., was told

about some of his son's comments about how much he enjoyed being with his dad. His father was

visibly taken aback by the remarks for precisely this reason. They were the yearn for confirmation

that every father desires. I think every father relish his time with their sons, he says,

and you never know if your son relish his time with you. For me to hear that he respects me as much

as I respect him, it's the most satisfying feeling that I could ever have.

I remember when I was still in high school and I would go wake him up in the morning so we could

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