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Welcome to the Daily Dad Podcast

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where we provide one lesson every

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single day to help you with

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your most important job, being

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a parent. I'm

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Ryan Holiday and I draw these lessons

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from ancient philosophy, modern

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psychology, practical wisdom, and

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insights from parents just like you all

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over the world. Thank you for

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listening and we hope this helps. Look

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or urgent care as I've found is

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the doctor. It's not cheap to have

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kids. It never has been. The

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sooner you accept this, the better. People

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who live in New York City understand that it's

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an expensive city. It costs what it costs. If

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they wanted cheap, they picked the wrong city. And

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the same goes for parenting. Being a

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dink that's dual income, no kids, was

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an option. We did not choose that

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option. We should remember this when

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we're at the grocery store buying berries we know will

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be devoured in less than three minutes. When

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we're grabbing them a nice shirt, they're gonna immediately stain

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when we're looking at schooling options, when we need

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to buy new soccer cleats or backpacks because they

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somehow lost their old ones. If

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we wanted things to be cheap and simple, well, we

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chose the wrong life. It costs what

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it costs. There's no use in

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complaining, no use in fantasizing otherwise, no

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use in stressing. All that is

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energy better spent on figuring it out, on

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trying to earn what we need to earn, on

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eliminating inefficiencies, on investing for the future. Because

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sure, we've paid a high price for these kids, but

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as we've mentioned before, what

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we get in return, peace and freedom

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and love is priceless. Sometimes

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we need to remind ourselves of precisely that.