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 we do ripples through.

In the beautiful children's book, Each Kindness, Jacqueline Woodson, tells the story

of a young girl named Chloe, who, in the casual way that kids often do, treats a classmate cruelly.

She has moved to change one day when her teacher demonstrates the way that water ripples

when a stone is dropped in it. So it goes with kindness,

the teacher explains. When we do something nice for someone, it ripples through their lives and

into the world, radiating goodness outward. Chloe is inspired by this, but it's too late. The girl

she was cruel to has moved away. Now when she throws a rock

into the pond near her house, all she can think about are the lost opportunities she had to

improve someone's life to make their day brighter. This is something we must teach our kids,

but more we must demonstrate it to them by treating them well, by showing them

compassion and empathy and unconditional love. And in so doing, we help not only them, but everyone

they encounter in their lives. And as we've said, it's through our kids that we have

multi-generational impact because we also teach their kids.

Seneca reminds us that every person we meet is an opportunity to practice kindness.

We can show our kid what this looks like in everything we do, from how we treat a waiter

to the way we stop to pick up a nail we see in the road.

We can show them what forgiveness looks like. We can show them what forgiveness looks like.

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