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.

Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

You'll always have this.

The last 12 months have been rough.

They were defined by lockdowns and job losses and masks and

wildfires and protests. But what about someone with a one-year-old? To them, the last 12 months

certainly had those things, but it was mostly defined by the birth of their child, their first smile,

their first so many different things.

Some people are going to look back at 2020 with frustration and anger, but other people are going

to look back at it as the time their daughter took her first steps, or perhaps they'll just

look back on it as time they spent with their college-aged son that they

never would have gotten had classes not been shut down, time their family spent together that they

never thought they'd get. That's the wonderful thing about being parents. Sure, it comes with

worries and responsibilities, burdens, and stresses. But it also comes with a magical power

that lets you find the good and everything. What was it like during World War II, Grandma? I don't know.

I was busy taking care of my little kids. It doesn't matter if we've just lost a chance to go to

the conference championships in the last game we may ever play,

like Drew Brees, or if we just won that conference championship and a trip to the Super Bowl,

like Tom Brady. What's going to be on our minds is finding our kids after the game,

hugging them, playing around with them, telling them we love them. The highs and the lows,

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