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 want them to come to you with problems.

When your kids mess up, what is your reaction? Do you freak out? Or are you calm? Do you make the situation better or worse? Can you actually listen? Or are you halfway through a solution before they've even gotten two words of explanation out of their mouths? The answers to these questions matter if you, like a good dad, want to be the kind of father who your kids turn to when they have a problem. You want them to come to you with their

fears, with their secrets, with their dilemmas, don't you? Well, then you better make yourself

the kind of parent that has earned that honor, that has earned that respect because it's a privilege

and not a right. Need proof? Well, think about your own parents and how many things you kept from

them. Even more, think about why you kept it from them. Sure, some things we hide because we know

it's stuff we're not supposed to be doing. But a lot of it is stuff we could have used their advice on,

that we ached to connect over, but we knew that we couldn't.

Because they would rush to judgment,

because they wouldn't let us explain,

because it would trigger their anxiety or their temper or their moralizing reminders.

You want them to come to you with problems?

You want to help them,

then show them. Teach them that it's worth doing. Teach them that they'll get a fair hearing.

Prove to them that you make things better and not worse. Let them see how you love them more than

you hate any mistake. You're listening to a Daily Dad podcast, one meditation a day inspired to help you do your

most important job, which is be a great father.

These are meditations inspired by ancient wisdom, psychological research, and just great

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