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.

Everyone in our house was recovering from a cold last week, and then so this weekend was finally the first chance that we got to go on our family walk, which we hadn't been able to do. And so we laced up our Hoka Mach 6s. The folks at Hoka were nice enough to send us all matching pairs. So I have a pair. My wife has a pair. Clark has a pair. Jones has a pair. It's pretty cute as we walked down the dirt roads by where we lived,

walked through our property. It's a light, fast, and undeniably comfy shoe. It's got a kid's specific

design, and the fit will free your kid's inner speedster for a daily fun. To learn more about

the kids' mock six shoe, visit today's show notes, and check it out.

Florence Nightingale was a precocious child. As a toddler, she always went her own way.

Then, unlike many girls, her age at that time, she wasn't interested in parties or getting married or fancy things.

She wanted to do something different with her life.

When she began making moves towards volunteering in hospitals, her parents

were horrified. It had been difficult enough raising a strange child, and now she wanted to go

debase herself with work below her station. They were embarrassed. They were humiliated. Like a lot of

parents with determined independent children, they felt rejected. They thought her choices

rebuked theirs. We are ducks who have hatched a wild swan, her mother once lamented, but a favorable

biographer responded perfectly. It was not a swan they hatched. It was an eagle. You can't hold your children back. You

can't resent that they're different. Their choices say nothing about your choices. They are their

own person. They deserve their own life, especially talented and brave mavericks, like Nightingale.

Our job is to help them become who they are.

Our job is to be a fan. Our job is to support them. Our job is to encourage them in whatever

direction that takes us or them. That's what we're here for, and we can't forget it.

Hey, thanks for listening to the Daily Dad podcast.

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