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 why we read.

You've read plenty of bad books as a parent, the ham-handed kids' books, the nonsensical ones,

the vanity projects, the patronizing ones. Why do we read to our kids? To teach them, to read,

of course, to spend time together, of course, but we also read to teach them about life. So why does

every children's book seem to be about pizza or

alligators with hats? What on earth was one children's book author thinking when she wrote a

kid's book about Barack Obama speaking at a funeral for kids killed in a mass shooting? Come on.

The best kids' books entertain and teach. That's the goal.

You want them to learn the lessons of life now, whether they understand what's happening or not.

And of course, it doesn't hurt if like a Pixar movie, there are some good reminders and lessons

for the parents too, because we can always

use a refresher about the important things, right? About love, about creativity, about humanity,

about wonder. Well, with that in mind, I've spent the last year working on my newest book,

The Boy Who Would Be King, a hundred page beautifully illustrated all ages

fable about the journey of Marcus Aurelius, from an ordinary boy, to the ruler of the

known world.

How did he do it?

What did he need to learn?

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