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.

Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

What story are you telling your kids?

There are a few versions of history that you can tell your kids.

You can tell them the propaganda version, the fables, the self-serving myths, the lies that dictators and the ignorant like to traffic in.

You can tell them the dark truth version, the almost nihilistic people's history version that is resurgent today, that everything

is bad, was done with evil intent, that all of history is a cover for malevolence and that progress is

impossible. Or you can tell them the third version, the one that does not deny history or hope,

the one that looks to see the good and people without pretending

the bad didn't happen. Was America founded on white supremacy, or was it a brave leap forward

in the pursuit of individual liberty that sowed the seeds for the destruction of white supremacy?

Was the Civil War two racist sides battling each other, or was it a noble struggle of good

people who belatedly came to see clearly the great evil of slavery? And after the war, did progress

stall out, or did some people try very hard to do what is right, only to be stopped by profound

resistance from anti-democratic forces,

forces that could have been overcome if people had tried a little bit harder.

And for America and the Civil War, you can plug in any nation and its historical events,

Germany and the World Wars, Britain and colonialism, the Eastern Bloc and Communism.

We can tell our kids a version of history

that makes them throw up their hands, or we can tell them a version that makes them roll up their

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