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 can't forget this.

What made the Roosevelt special was their father, Theodore Roosevelt Senior. And what made

Theodore Roosevelt Senior such a great father? It was, as friends noticed and biographers noted,

he was one of those rare grown men who seemed never to forget that they were once children

themselves. This isn't important just because it makes a parent fun, although that is key.

It matters because, as we've said, it's hard to be a kid. If we can actually remember what it's

like to be where they are now, we can have real empathy and understanding for how they

are feeling from moment to moment. And we can parent accordingly. We can correct and

teach and be patient accordingly. Yes, we can also entertain and excite and inspire accordingly.

You were a child once. You were young and impressionable and naive and scared and dumb,

sometimes all at once. Don't forget that. Don't lose touch with that. It's the most

important tool you have as a parent to help build your kids up. Remember, courage is calling

fortune favors the brave is now available everywhere. I can go to your local bookstore and pick it up.

You can come to the painted porch and pick it up. We are still offering the pre-order bonuses. We've extended it to the end of this

week. So you can get that at dailysteoic.com slash pre-order. But you can also get audible. You can

get e-books. You can get whatever you want from wherever you want it. But I would very much like you

to support the new book. Courage is calling.

Fortune favors the brave.