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 don't have to be perfect. You do have to do this. None of us will be perfect parents. Our children

will not agree with and understand every choice we make now or later. We are going to make

mistakes. We are going to do things we regret. We are going to find out later just how the

decisions we have made have affected them. And this

will not be easy to hear. You may have experienced trying to communicate precisely this with your

own parents. Maybe it was your mother's drinking and your father's sternness. Maybe it was their

slowness to accept something about you.

Maybe the consequences of how much your family moved.

Maybe you've tried to tell them and they reacted like Susan Sarandon did, as we talked about recently.

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