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's keeping you from it? Parents make mistakes. Sometimes they're doing their best and they

still fell short. Other times they were not doing their best and they still fell short. Other times

they were not doing their best and thus fell short. No parent is going to have a perfect record because

we are not perfect. But there is one thing we can do, as we've said before, quoting from the great

Dr. Becky, who's book Good Inside, you must read. And that is repair. It's never too late to repair. Never, ever.

In a recent interview, Julia Louise Dreyfus talks about going to therapy with her 87-year-old mother,

and what a powerful experience that ended up being for both of them. I went to therapy with my mother

because she said something to me, she told the New York Times. It might have been my dad's birthday, my dad who had passed, and she was remembering that it was his

birthday, and she said, I'm sure you're thinking about your dad.

And I know there was stuff that I wish we'd been able to deal with or talk about when you were

younger, because her parents had been divorced.

I wish we'd had a chance to do that, her mother said.

And I said, oh, well, mom, what's keeping us? Why don't we do it? And so off we went. And it was very, very helpful. First off, how wonderfully sensitive and proactive of her mother. Second, how brave of both of them to go. And third, what a statement this is about the possibility and the timelessness of repair. If it can work with adult children, you think you can't have that

conversation with your teenager, that you can't get down and speak eye to eye with your nine-year-old

about some mistakes you made a few months ago? Of course you can. Nothing is keeping you. So why don't

you do it? There will be a time when it is too late when one of us is gone, and we never know when that

will be. So do it now.

Repair. Fix. Apologize. Have the conversation. Do the work. And that is actually my

Tempice. You get medallion. I try to hold it when I'm fidgeting or recording a podcast.

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