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.

It's funny, on a given day, I think one of us in our family is wearing our Hoka Mach 6s. I've got a pair. My wife's got a pair. My oldest has got a pair. And my youngest got a pair. And they're all matching colors. Sometimes we match. I feel a little more comfortable when we're not all matching. But one of us always feels inclined to throw on a pair of these. It's a light, fast, and undeniably comfy shoe. It's got a

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We're not balanced right.

Parents take care of their kids.

We know that.

So it makes sense that we spend and sacrifice a lot for them when they are young.

They can't take care of themselves then after all. It also makes sense that parents try if they can to leave something to their kids when they die. We want to make sure they're okay. We want to give them what we've

managed to cobble together or build in our own lives. But what about the middle?

This period is strangely neglected in most of the conversations and expectations about

parenting, except most of the negative stuff about nepo babies or failure to launch kids.

Some fathers will give them plenty of toys when they are children, Montana would write back

in the 16th century, but will resent the slightest expenditure on their needs once they have come of age.

More recently, Bill Perkins spends a chapter in his fascinating book, Die with Zero, which is

really a parenting book in disguise. You can grab it at the painted porch. He talks about the idea

of inheritances. He notes that parents tend to leave their kids money much later than you'd expect.

The average age that children receive an inheritance is somewhere in their 60s, he knows.

That's well and good, but he points out that surely most kids could have used that help more when they were paying off their student loans

or trying to put together a down payment for their first house.

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