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.

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This is what you'll remember.

It won't be the recitals or the graduations or the expensive trips to theme parks or the

birthdays or the Christmas mornings.

When you think back on your life, the moments that fill you with nostalgia and love will be rather ordinary.

We talked recently about Caitlin Flanagan's beautiful observation about the dream time of early childhood, the feeling

she had recalling some regular summer day when they flagged down an ice cream truck. But she may as well

have been describing some lazy Sunday in bed or a school night when you threw the rules aside

and let everyone stay up to watch a movie, when you sat in the car with your teenager as your spouse

ran an errand, when they fell asleep on you with a fever. One you sat in the car with your teenager as your spouse ran an errand, when they fell

asleep on you with a fever. One of the endless days early in the pandemic when the earth felt

like it stood still. Quality time? This is the quality time because we make it so by being

present for it, by being grateful for it, by soaking it in while it's here.

We don't put expectations on it. We don't add stress to it. We don't detract from it by thinking

about what other parents might think or what our own parents might think. We don't feel guilty.

We push away the thoughts of work and the busyness of the day and the days ahead. We're just

there. We don't need it to be anything other than what it is,

which is ordinary and extraordinary at the same time. That's my Tempest Fuget medallion, which I have on

my desk as a reminder. It says, all time is quality time. And it says they grow up so fast. Tempice Fugit means time flies. Anyways, it's a nice reminder to have. We sell them in the Daily Stoak Store.com. Check it out at store.dailystoke.com. A little nice parenting reminder. And I've heard awesome feedback from people all over the world that have one. You can check it out. I'll link to it in today's show notes.

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