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're going to regret this.

Imagine you've come to the end. You're leaving this world,

leaving your kids behind, or worse, more unthinkably, your kids are leaving you. They're off to

college. They're moving across the country. Time or distance or conflict separates you. They've been

in an accident. You've both lived to ripe old ages, but they go first.

Is there any scenario in which coming to this point of reflection, you think,

I am so glad I so regularly got upset with them.

I'm so glad I was so critical.

I'm so glad we fought so much.

In fact, put all this aside, have you ever once lost your temper with your kids

and then afterwards thought,

I'm so glad that I did that.

No, you felt bad after, you felt guilty after.

You wish you'd had more self-control.

Almost immediately, the situation didn't seem so big.

The stakes didn't seem so high.

Even if the issues were important, even if the things did need to be said,

we just know after there was another way. There was a better way. Anger is a destructive, deceptive emotion.

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