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.

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We can't lie like this. We're all taught pleasant little fictions, and it's always been thus.

Early Americans were taught about Washington and the cherry tree, just as early Romans were taught

myths about their leaders. And most of this is fine, provided that the stories are there to inspire to teach

moral lessons. But there is another kind of lie we tell our kids, usually about more recent history.

And the purpose of this lie is not to instruct, but to obstruct, to hide the truth about what

their ancestors did, and in some cases about what they're still doing. There's a jaw-dropping scene

in Wright Thompson's incredible, and I think a central book, The Barn, who was on the podcast

not too long ago, where in the course of his research about the tragedy of Emmett Till,

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