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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Try to see it this way. It's too painful to even imagine losing a child. And yet that is exactly why dating back

to Epictetus, the Stoic said we should, because as hard as it is to do that, it's better than the all-too-

easy and all-too-common habit of taking your kids and your lives for granted. At the end of death,

be not proud, the moving memoir by John Gunther about his son's short

life. Gunther's wife, Francis Gunther, writes, Johnny lay dying of a brain tumor for 15 months. He was in

his 17th year. I never kissed him good night without wondering whether I should see him alive in the

morning. I greeted him each morning as though he were

newly born to me, a re-gift of God. Each day he lived was a blessed day of grace. Thankfully,

most of us will not have to go through what that family did, but we can and must try to practice

what they practiced, because you never know. Because wouldn't it be better to try to

see each day this way that each day with them is a gift, a lucky break, a midnight reprieve,

as opposed to a chore, something you can't take for granted. Act tonight as if this was your last

time together. Soak it in, appreciate it. Be everything you need.

And then in the morning, arise and be surprised, grateful, blessed by the grace of another ordinary day,

and then live accordingly because you never know.

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