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 can give them this. Your kids ask for a lot, money, patience, they ask for toys and games and attention.

They demand chicken nuggets after you hand them the hamburger they told you they wanted.

They ask for forgiveness. They ask for trust. But most of all, they ask for time. They've been asking

for time since they were born. They asked for the time you needed for sleep. They asked for time

that would have otherwise gone to your career or your health or just hanging

out.

And now they're asking for even more time.

Your son is asking you to stay for a few minutes because he's not ready to head into his

kindergarten classroom.

Your daughter is asking you if you can drive her to a friend's house.

Your teenager is asking you to sit down and talk for a minute and then probably

asking for money. You don't have more time to give and yet you'll need to find a way to give it.

It's fine though. We talked about this recently. You already blew up your life. You already hopelessly

bankrupted yourself from a time perspective. So embrace it. Just put it on your tab. Just give it to them. One more story,

one more ride at the park, one more round on the game console, one more minute. You can spare it.

You can find a way to pay for it. You can't help but be more like them. It's actually what we

built this new challenge around the Daily Stoke Leadership Challenge, ancient wisdom for modern leaders.

No one is in a more important role of leadership than a parent.

You're the leader of your family.

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