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'll wish for this too. We said a few weeks ago that the one thing you'll wish is you look back on your life and your

child's life is that you'll wish you loved them more.

You'll wish you spent more time with them, accepted them more, told them how you felt more,

held them close more.

Here's another thing you'll wish too.

You'll wish you fought with them less.

"'As the years pass on and time renders things insignificant,

"'you will be baffled by so many of the things you and your children argued about.

"'You'll wonder why it meant so much to you to keep the walls clean,

"'why you were on them about tying their shoes so much,

"'why you made such a big deal about

grades that, in the end, turned out not to matter. We fight with our kids about so much nonsense.

We enforce rules that we don't even care about. Why? Because we think we're supposed to?

Because we think it doesn't harm things. But it does. It takes a toll. Of course, as parents,

we have to enforce some rules. And there are some things that are, in fact, worth arguing about.

You just needed to be reminded today that most things are not that thing, even if they feel like.

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