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.

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You are being reminded.

It's been a rough couple weeks. You watched your retirement accounts lose as much as

30% of their value. You're watching businesses disappear left and right. Maybe you're stuck at home.

Maybe you have to show up to work every day with a flutter of fear in your heart because you have one of

those essential jobs. Your kids are at home. School is canceled. You're going

through groceries like crazy. You've never used this much toilet paper. And the news is bad, bad, bad,

every single day. This is a lot to manage, but it is at least a reminder. It's a reminder of what's

actually important. It's inc reminder of what's actually important.

It's incontrovertible proof that your most essential responsibility in this life has nothing

to do with the economy, with finding your passion.

Even your marriage suddenly seems a lot less of a priority because you're being reminded

of what truly matters. The one thing that only you can do

is taking care of your kids, however old they are, however protected or privileged you are.

For weeks now, there has been no handing them off to a teacher. You are the teacher. There's no

nanny to pick up the slack. You are the nanny. There's no carding them to soccer practice. There are no

grades to check on. All the standardized tests have disappeared. Will there even be colleges when this is over?

What this pandemic has placed in stark relief is that your most essential job, even if you are a doctor or a nurse,'s being a father. Nothing else matters quite like it.

Stripped of so many of your other concerns, you're being forced to think about it and focus on

this responsibility in a way that you probably haven't since they were born. And that's an incredible

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