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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. Abraham Lincoln could not seem to please his father.

Even though his son was brilliant and clearly cut out for something other than subsistence farming,

still Thomas Lincoln resented his son's

talent. He hated that he was always reading. In fact, he was known to have destroyed some of his

son's priceless books. He rented him out as a laborer. He nearly wore him down. Even when Lincoln

was older and supporting his father financially, the judgment never really stopped. In the end, Thomas died more or less

estranged from his son, then a well-known politician and successful lawyer. Lincoln with his own

children went the other direction. He bound them to him by the chords of affection, as we write in

the February 9th entry of the Daily Dad book, which I hope he'll check out.

He never used corporal punishment.

He loved to play with them.

He took them to work with him.

He embraced their craziness.

As we said recently, it drove his law partner nuts who believed that Lincoln was blind

to his children's faults.

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