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 Holliday, 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.

You always have five more minutes to give. They were traveling with their three-year-old son.

They boarded their flight in Boston. They were

heading back to Los Angeles after visiting family in Cape Cod. They could not have anticipated the

just 49 minutes into their trip. Their plane would be hijacked and driven into the South

Tower of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. They could not have known this, just as they would not

have known that not long before that flight, the two fathers were taking little David Reed-Gamboa

brand horse to the playground at the West Hollywood Park for the last time. After a wonderful afternoon

on the playground, they told David it was time to go and he shouted back just five more

minutes, Daddy daddy and they

relented as they always did they just didn't know it was the last time none of us do there's the

last time you change a diaper there's the last time you get to speak with them there's the last time

you push them in a stroller or walk them to school or drive them to their summer job there's a last

meal a last hug.

The reasons for these endings are sometimes natural and even celebratory. Other times it's

tragic, evil, and unfair. Inevitably, it will catch us by surprise. It always does, even though

we know our kids are growing up, even though we know that everyone and everything

that's ever been born will die. The reason it surprises us is that we don't know when, and because we love

them, we love them so much, it always comes too soon, which is why when our kids ask for a few more

minutes, for one more hug, for a ride, for anything, we should find a way to

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