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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What is this? It's tough to know what we're really supposed to do as parents. Obviously, we're supposed to provide for them. Obviously, we have to protect them. But what is the job? In the day-to-dayness of parenting, what is the job? Is it life skills? Is it values? Is it getting them to school, making sure they have food? Is it setting them up for success? There's a lovely new documentary shortout

about Bill Marsh who teaches kids how to swim. Now maybe this doesn't seem like a big important

job, but over the years he's taught something like 5,000 kids how to swim. And not knowing how to swim

is the number one cause of accidental death for kids. He really sees swimming as a metaphor, the process of learning a

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