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 will you regret?

On their deathbeds, fathers think about a lot of things. They think about the

world they're leaving to their sons and daughters. They think about how they parented. They think

about the mistakes they made. They think about what they did right. They are warned by the thoughts

of their children, and if they are lucky, they find themselves surrounded by their

children with their hospital bed serving as the final crowded table that we have talked about

so much here. The question for you to think about today, on a day hopefully quite far from that

moment, is what decisions are you making now and how will you think about them then? Think about what most

dads regret when they come to the end of life. They regret not spending more time with their

kids. They regret not telling them how proud they are of them and not doing it enough. They

regret taking things too seriously. They regret letting petty differences or petty problems loom larger than the love

they felt in their hearts. They regret not being present, spending all that energy trying to

organize perfect quality time when there was so much ordinary, wonderful garbage time to be had.

They regret not engaging with the slime because they cared too much about keeping the

house clean. They may regret spoiling their kids, not teaching them the right lessons, not having

the conversations that needed to be had. Well, you're lucky because you're not under deathbed

right now, because it's not too late late nor is it ever too early today you can

adjust and change to make sure you don't have those regrets or at least you can seek to minimize them

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