Last week I drove my oldest daughter to a small school up in the Northeast, unloaded five hundred pairs of shoes, broke some furniture putting it together, gave her a quick hug at the airport — and she handed me a letter that wrecked me before I finished the first sentence.

This episode is the whole story of that goodbye, and everything I learned about whether eighteen years of lessons actually stick.

What you’ll hear:

— David breaks down the 22 family rules he’s drilled into his kids since they were little and reads every one of them

— The graduation party he swore he’d never allow (and why he folded)

— The memorial tattoo honoring her late father, and the hawk that keeps showing up

— How he taught a scared little girl to embrace fear — starting with an elevator

— Why every decision you make is an emotional decision, and what that means for your kids

— The single best piece of advice he got from another dad

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