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.

You are constantly losing them.

Every parent's deepest fear is losing their child.

And the terrible, beautiful tragedy of parenthood is that indeed we are constantly losing our children day by day by day.

Not literally, of course, but in the sense that they are growing, changing, becoming something new,

becoming more independent. On a daily, if not hourly basis, they are doing this. On the Daily Stoak podcast recently, Professor Scott Galloway talked about the profound grief he felt looking at a picture

of his 11-year-old. Yes, it was true that the 11-year-old was now a

great 14-year-old, but the 11-year-old was no more. Such is our fate. Such is the life we signed up for.

We want them to grow. We can't wait for them to start walking, to start school, to experience all the

wonderful things that life has in store for them. Yet this also means that they'll never again

be where they are right now. And that where they are right now is ephemeral and fleeting for us at

best. Blink, get distracted, take it for granted. Remember, tempus fugit, time flies. And check out our

reminder of this. We just made this awesome challenge going around that idea. Seize this moment

and hold on to them while you can. Seize it before you lose it forever. And that is actually my Tempest Bugit medallion. I have it here on this

little cup on my desk. I try to hold it when I'm fidgeting or recording a podcast. The idea is that

time flies, and the front of the coin has that. It's got, you know, an hourglass with wings.

Time flies. And on the back are two reminders, I think, are critical for parents. They grow up so

fast and at all time is quality time. In a world of constant distractions and unlimited obligations,

everything is competing for our time and attention.

And I think this is just a great reminder of the thing that matters most, our most important job.

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