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.

We have to care. We have to care. Think of all the conversations you have as a family, all the things that come up time and time again in your house. What should we have for dinner? What do you want to do this weekend? Why are the Brown so terrible this year? What are your grades going to be this quarter? Are you sure you don't need to study? Who deleted my stuff off the DVR? How many times do I have to tell you to put your shoes away? These are the rhythms, the music of family life, the back and forth, the garbage time, the minutia of cohabitation. But if we're honest, if we look in the mirror, most of us will notice something conspicuously absent from these

conversation. Or rather, they'll notice a theme. They are myopic. They are self-absorbed. Not maliciously so,

of course, but still we are focused on ourselves. What does this miss? Well, it's missing the

suffering that is happening right out there down the street in another

city in your country. As parents, it is essential that we actively work to correct that.

We have to care. We have to make sure our kids care. It's wrong to ignore what we know is wrong.

It's wrong not to be talking about it, not to be spending real time and energy

thinking and working to make a difference in this world. We obsess whether the counter is

clean, whether the dishes are done, but why doesn't it bother us as much that whole segments of

the population are unfairly treated by the police? We work so hard to get them a few more points on their SATs,

but spend so little time questioning this whole system.

Who is excluded by it?

Who is being left behind?

If you don't want to be a dream hoarder,

if you want to be a good person,

then you have to actively and regularly work

to make injustice a topic

of conversation in your house. What are you doing about it? How are we contributing to the problem?

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