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.

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What messages are you sending to the future?

Neil Postman, who we talked about recently,

opens the disappearance of childhood with a line destined for Maxim. Children are living messages

we send to a time we will not see, he writes. Postman died in 2003, but this prophetic media

theorist and cultural critic wouldn't be surprised that a

reality television star became president in the United States, or that we'd be a society

influenced more by screens than the printed word, or that communication would be more digital

than physical. Love it or hate it, a generation had preordained this. They sent us this message. The present is simply a

reflection of that, and we can't really do anything about it. But we can send our own message to the

future and how we raise our kids. We can return to first principles. We can teach them what's

important. We can model better behavior. We can show them the

future we want for them through our example. People spend a lot of time worrying about what kind of

world their children and grandchildren will live in. But what steps are those people taking?

Why not just work harder to raise resilient, intelligent,

exceptional kids who can thrive in whatever tomorrow brings us? You want them to have impact? You want

to have impact. You want to make things better. You're concerned about where things are going.

Okay. The solution starts at home. It starts with you. It starts with us. It starts with the message we are sending through our kids about what's important, about how a person should be, about what change looks like. And that can start today.

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