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 the main lesson.

There is so much we want to teach our kids, so much that fathers are expected to teach their kids,

how to ride a bike, how to swim, how to throw a punch, how to tie a tie, how to read, how to get up the guts to talk to someone.

And all of this is important.

Of course, all of this must be done. But there is a lesson underneath all these

lessons that matters more, and it's a heady one, yet also a very simple one. It might seem pretentious

to say that a father must teach philosophy to their kids, but that's only because philosophy

itself has become so perverted and impractical.

The lesson you have to teach them happens to be at the core of the philosophy known as

Doicism, and it's a key to success in life. And it's simply this. We don't control what happens in

life. We control how we respond. Circumstances are not up to us, but our choices and our

reactions and our actions are. They think a teacher is unfair and doesn't like them. Okay, that might well be

true. What are they going to do about it? That's the question. The coach says they're too short to play

basketball. Same thing.

They screwed up and failed the math test.

There is a bully on the playground.

They only got in to their safety school.

Your job is to teach them not to wallow in this, but to focus on what is next.

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