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 must be unreachable. You work hard. You have so many responsibilities. So many people depend on you,

which is precisely why you must work to be unreachable. That doesn't seem like a good thing, but it is.

Richard Nixon, a workaholic himself, would say admirably of Charles de Gaul that his aides

knew that DeGaul was almost completely

inaccessible after he left his office at the end of the day. No one was to call him unless there was an

emergency. His time with his family was his own and their own. As we've talked about, DeGall knew

that work was temporary, but family was permanent.

At the same time, DeGal managed to be a successful head of state because of the clear

boundaries that he grew. Just as work knew not to bother him at home unless it was essential,

his family respected similar boundaries when he was at work. Nixon summed it up nicely. He struck a balance

that few are able to. Neither job nor family came second. Each was its own sphere. So must we

we must figure out how to be unreachable so that whatever we are doing, we are present.

When we are eating dinner, we are eating dinner, not

answering emails. When we are at the office, we are at the office not being interrupted every three

seconds. Neither work nor family is elevated above the other. Each is just given its proper

due when it needs it. Each belongs in its own sphere. And of course, we talk about this a little bit in the Stoic Parent, which you can check out at

dailystoic.com slash parent, daily stoic.com slash parenting, which is our 10 commandments

for being a better parent, the first of which, of course, is put thy family first.

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