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.

I was really excited to try Storyworth. Storyworth is an online service that helps you and your loved ones preserve precious memories and stories for years to come.

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How did you meet so-and-so? My wife did this for me for Father's Day one year.

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You make debts your children have to pay. Nobody wrote more beautifully about

the history of conquest and adventure than Theodore Roosevelt. Nobody wrote more poetically about

war and glory in empire than Redyard Kipling. In the end, where did this leave these two men? It left them grieving the

sons they love so much. Theodore Roosevelt lost his son Quentin shot down over France.

Kipling lost his son Jack in the trenches in 1915, so destroyed by shot and shell that they never identified the body.

Roosevelt was broken by the loss of his eldest boy and followed him soon to the grave.

Kipling, who had written if to his son, when he was just 12 years old, would write one of his last

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