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 don't stop teaching your kids.

Nell Painter was an accomplished adult.

She was more than out from under her parents' thumb.

She was in her 70s.

She was a world-class historian, and yet even then her mother was teaching her.

How did she have the courage to leave a promising academic career at that age and go to art school? Well, her mother,

writing her own first book at age 65, probably had something to do with it, even if Nell had not

grasped the significance of this lesson at the time. It took me years to sense the bravery,

the sturdy determination her metamorphosis demanded, she said, for she was

tougher than I could see during her lifetime. I knew she delved deep to express herself with unadorned

honesty, hard for a woman, doubly hard for a black woman, triply hard for a black woman of a class

and generation, and never wanting to let them catch even a sidelong glimmer of

remorse. And yet her mother had done it. And so when Nell reached her own golden year, she didn't

find it strange to try something strange. She didn't mind looking crazy or out of place. She didn't

mind doing something hard. And her book, old in art school, is a testament to what her

mother had taught her implicitly and explicitly. We should take from this two things. We never

stop teaching our kids. What we are doing right now might not be resonating, but it can teach

them something in the future. This is not a job we age out of. Our work,

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