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.

What do you wish you would have known? Since the first daily dad email on Father's Day

2019, just about every day, we get emails from readers saying things like, I wish I would

have read this before having my first child. Or I'm going to share this one with the soon-to-be

parent or why didn't anyone tell me this years and years ago?

And that's sort of how parenting works.

We learned so much by experience instead of by the experiences of others.

As the psychologist, Adam Grant, put it recently.

One of the most irresponsible things we do as a society is that we don't

educate parents in the most basic knowledge about developmental psychology. We just expect parents to

know things. We just assume they'll figure it out, which is crazy because parenting is the most

difficult thing any of us will do in our lives. It challenges us

physically, mentally, spiritually, in every way imaginable. And of all the things that we do, the

stakes are highest here. Errors and mistakes aren't measured in regrets or what ifs, but transmogrified

into this little innocent person that we've been entrusted with. And so with that in mind,

we here at Daily Dad have been hard at work developing what we're calling the parent-to-be,

a daily dad parenting challenge. It's a 30-day challenge designed to give soon-to-be parents

the kind of preparation that's soon-to- be parents need. Every day it's a challenge

teaching these future or once again parents how to get on the same page with their partner,

how to address their childhood wounds, how to create structure in their life, how to set up a village

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