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.

I asked my son yesterday, what pair of shoes did he want to wear to school? And he said,

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We will be fine.

In 1977, Joan Didion decided to take her 11-year-old daughter, Quintana Roo, on book tour.

There is a part of travel that can bring out the worst in us as parents, as we've talked about.

The airport version of us comes out, the one who is stressed and rushed, anxious, and short with our kids.

You can imagine Joan Didion is unflappable as she was falling prey to this.

She was going to be, after all, performing night after night, day after day in front of reporters and audiences on top of all the indignities of travel. But she didn't. Instead, she took her daughter aside at the beginning of the trip and told her, we are going to miss planes, we are going to lose luggage, we are going to miss meals. But what will we do? Her daughter said in surprise. We will stay calm, her mother told her because everything will work out. We will be fine. Can you say this to yourself? Can you say that to your kids? Things are going to go wrong. Trips almost never go exactly as planned. But so what? As we've said, this is part of it. This is an opportunity to spend time together. This is a chance to experience things. It's also a chance, as Didion was showing her

daughter, to be resilient and to handle your business. It's a chance to show them that everything

is going to be fine because you are going to make sure that it's fine.

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