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 raise and educate them the same. Are there differences between boys and girls? Of course.

Anyone that tells you different either isn't apparent or they have some agenda that's blinding them.

There are sex differences in every other animal that ever existed. Humans are not exempt.

But what does this matter? Honestly, it doesn't matter. Not in terms of your

day-to-day obligations and opportunities as a parent. Because the things we want to teach our kids,

well, there's nothing gendered about it. We want them to be smart. We want them to be resilient.

We want them to be decent. We want them to know how to figure stuff out. We want them to be smart. We want them to be resilient. We want them to be decent. We want them to know

how to figure stuff out. We want them to become themselves. And none of that has anything to do

with their genitals. The Stoic philosopher Musonius Rufus way back in the first century was once

asked by a parent about how they should educate their sons and daughters

and whether they should do so differently.

Even then, despite all the biases and restrictions of his time, Rufus understood what really

mattered.

We're told he responded by explaining that trainers of dogs and horses make no distinction

in the training of the male and the female, for female dogs

are taught to hunt just as the males are, and one can see no difference in training of mares if they

are expected to do horses work in the training of a stallion. Your goal, as we've talked about before,

is to raise an eagle. Have you ever seen a majestic eagle

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