"I have the capacity to deal with it. I can be what they need," he says of being a parent. "What we truly have control over is ourselves, our choices and our decisions." The Stoic philosopher Epictetus would say that this is the chief task of the philosopher coming to terms with what you have control over and what you don't.
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan shares an article from a Father's Day read from The Free Press on the upstream choices we have to make and continuing to do less as parents with discipline and trade offs.
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