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 can have more time if you do it right. It's a good reminder, one that we can zip past too easily because we're busy, because we have so much on our plate.

You only get 18 years with your kids.

It's a reminder not just to soak in the time that you have with them, but to make sure that you're really parenting in those 18 years.

Because soon enough, they'll be

gone. They'll be living with someone else, listening to someone else. And yes, time is fleeting. Yes,

it speeds up. Yes, there are ends to every era, to every phase of childhood. You know what?

There is one way to give yourself more time with them, and it's pretty easy. It's called not being an asshole.

It's possible to have a house, to have a life, to have a relationship that doesn't prime your kids to feel like Bruce Springsteen in the lyrics to Born to Run. In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream

At night we ride to mansions of glory and suicide machines.

Sprung from cages on highway nine chrome wheel, fueling check it and stepping out over the line.

Oh, maybe this town rips the bones of your back.

It's a death trap.

It's a suicide rap.

We've got to get up while we're young.

Because trans like us, baby we were born to run.

Yes, girl, we know. This doesn't mean you're going to

This doesn't mean you spoil your kids.

You only tell them what they want to hear and ever challenge them or hold them accountable.

It's just a reminder.

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