The Daily Dad
The audio companion to DailyDad.com’s daily email meditations on fatherhood, read by Ryan Holiday. Each daily reading will help you find the wisdom, inner strength, and good humor you need in order to be a great dad. Learn from historical figures and contemporary fathers how to do your most important job. Find more at dailydad.com.
Mon, April 28, 2025
What Is It Teaching You?
They need us to be the adult right now. They need us to love and support them. They need us to encourage and inspire them. Aura Frames | Save on the perfect gift by visiting https://auraframes.com/ to get $35-off plus free shipping on their best-selling Carver Mat frame with promo code DAILYDAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, April 26, 2025
Don't Forget That THIS Is Your Responsibility | Ryan Holiday
Make the decision today that you would want another parent to make. To spare you weeks of runny noses and sneezes. Aura Frames | Save on the perfect gift by visiting https://auraframes.com/ to get $35-off plus free shipping on their best-selling Carver Mat frame with promo code DAILYDAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, April 25, 2025
Take Notice Of This
It can be so frustrating to be a kid. The corrections. The confusion. Which is why we ought to make a little more effort to balance this asymmetry in wisdom and experience with our children. Aura Frames | Save on the perfect gift by visiting https://auraframes.com/ to get $35-off plus free shipping on their best-selling Carver Mat frame with promo code DAILYDAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, April 24, 2025
Are You Watching Closely?
As parents we have a lot of power over the lens that we bring to each parenting situation, each crisis, each potential frustration. But there is one specific thing as parents that we should try to see, something that’s beyond just the good in things. 🎉 Celebrate Marcus Aurelius' Birthday this month by reading Meditations with us and the Daily Stoic community. On April 26th, 1905 years after the day of his birth, Ryan Holiday will host an invite-only LIVE Q&A to talk about all things Marcus Aurelius and Meditations. Get 20% off with a Meditations BOOK & GUIDE bundle . Join the LIVE Meditations Q&A with Ryan Holiday by purchasing before April 26th! Get all our Meditations offering and learn more at our official Meditations Collection at dailystoic.com/meditations today. 📖 Looking for a Mother’s Day gift? Check out Storyworth and save $10 on your first purchase here: storyworth.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, April 23, 2025
It’s Giving You More Of Them
This season of life, as exhausting and relentless as it feels, is also fleeting. 📖 Looking for a Mother’s Day gift? Check out Storyworth and save $10 on your first purchase here: storyworth.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, April 22, 2025
You Have Two (And Only Two) Options
While so much of parenting feels out of our control—schedules, tantrums, illness, life's constant surprises—we can always control one critical thing... 🎙️ Listen to George Raveling's FULL interview on The Daily Stoic Podcast 🎥 Watch George Raveling’s FULL interview on The Daily Stoic Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ-ZQ2p0WhY 📕 You can grab copies of What You’re Made For by George Raveling at The Painted Porch: https://www.thepaintedporch.com/ MasterClass | Get 15% off any annual membership at MasterClass.com/RYANHOLIDAY ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, April 21, 2025
It Will Happen Just When You Think It Never Will
There are some things that do not respond well to pressure. There are some things we do not control as parents. So let’s back off a little. MasterClass | Get 15% off any annual membership at MasterClass.com/RYANHOLIDAY ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, April 19, 2025
"You Can't Parent Without Hope" | Maggie Smith
"The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children," writes Maggie Smith in her viral poem Good Bones . Today, Maggie joins Ryan to talk about what it means to shield children from the world's harsh realities while still acknowledging its beauty and potential. They discuss how parents can balance hope with realism, the importance of instilling strong values, and the courage it takes to remain earnest and sincere in a cynical world. In 2016, Maggie Smith’s poem Good Bones became a viral sensation. It was named the “Official Poem of 2016” by the Public Radio International. Maggie Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful ; My Thoughts Have Wings, a picture book illustrated by SCBWI Portfolio grand prize winner Leanne Hatch; the national bestsellers Goldenrod and Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change ; as well as Good Bones , named one of the Best Five Poetry Books of 2017 by the Washington Post and winner of the 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal in Poetry. Maggie’s latest book , Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life just released! You can grab signed copies of Dear Writer at The Painted Porch in addition to her books You Could Make This Place Beautiful and Keep Moving Follow Maggie Smith on Instagram @ MaggieSmithPoet 🎙️ Listen to Maggie's FULL interview | Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube PESTIE | Protect your home from bugs with Pestie. Go to pestie.com/dad for an extra 10% off your order! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, April 18, 2025
Play The Games. They’re The Best.
The little things bring us together. The little moments of joy and silliness. PESTIE | Protect your home from bugs with Pestie. Go to pestie.com/dad for an extra 10% off your order! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, April 17, 2025
Isn’t This What Parenting Is All About?
Meditations is a parenting book —one of the greatest ever written. Because at its core, it's about the transmission of wisdom and values from one generation to the next. 🎉 Celebrate Marcus Aurelius' Birthday this month by reading Meditations with us. On April 26th, 1905 years after the day of his birth, Ryan Holiday will host an invite-only LIVE Q&A to talk about all things Marcus Aurelius and Meditations. Get 20% off with a Meditations BOOK & GUIDE bundle . Join the LIVE Meditations Q&A with Ryan Holiday by purchasing before April 26th! Get all our Meditations offering and learn more at our official Meditations Collection at dailystoic.com/meditations today. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, April 16, 2025
What Are They Giving You?
The Stoics remind us that everything has its compensation…if we choose to see it, if we choose to welcome it. Tushbaby is here to make parenting a little easier—one day, or carry at a time. Visit Tushbaby.com and start customizing your own carrier. Make sure to use code DAILY DAD for 20% your first order. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, April 15, 2025
What If It Was One Of Yours?
We have to remember that courage and justice —the two most essential Stoic virtues—demand that we open our hearts and direct our actions at a slightly larger purview. 📚 Pick up a copy of Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan : https://www.thepaintedporch.com/ Tushbaby is here to make parenting a little easier—one day, or carry at a time. Visit Tushbaby.com and start customizing your own carrier. Make sure to use code DAILY DAD for 20% your first order. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, April 14, 2025
This Is One Of The Only Times
These are the moments we have to hold onto—the ones we have to carry with us for all the times when it feels like we’re falling short, when life feels overwhelming, or when we’re caught in the endless grind of trying to do and be more. 🎥 Watch Scott Galloway's full interview here: https://youtu.be/678OhMsbMsU ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, April 12, 2025
A Special Father-Son Afternoon | Ryan Holiday Takes His Son To Hamilton
Tag along as Ryan takes his oldest son to see Hamilton —his latest obsession. In this episode, Ryan reflects on how the father-son outing went, why it’s crucial for parents to show genuine interest in their kids’ passions, and even includes a few thoughts in Clark’s own words along the way. 🎥 Check out the episode with Navy Captain Dave Carey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_OYXy49Ft4 📖 Looking for a Mother’s Day gift? Check out Storyworth and save $10 on your first purchase here: storyworth.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, April 11, 2025
Are You Wearing This Mask?
We wear any number of masks—one that covers up our pain, our fears, our doubts, perhaps even one that displays the person that we truly are. 📖 Looking for a Mother’s Day gift? Check out Storyworth and save $10 on your first purchase here: storyworth.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, April 10, 2025
It’s An Almost Holy Thing
If you’re not careful, you’ll miss it. 🎥 Watch Josh Brolin's FULL episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ-6PW-CsdE 💪 Go to livemomentous.com and use promo code DAILYDAD to get 35% off your first subscription! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, April 09, 2025
Play The Games…While You Can
Every family has them. The small but special little exchanges. 🏛 All time can be quality time. Get your own Tempus Fugit Medallion to remind yourself of this at The Daily Dad Store: https://store.dailydad.com/ Hiya | We've worked out a special deal with Hiya for their best selling children's vitamin for 50% off your first order. To claim this deal you must go to hiyahealth.com/DAILYDAD . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, April 08, 2025
This Is What To Wish For
You have, right now, what your future self desires. Focus on what’s right in front of you. 💪 Go to livemomentous.com and use promo code DAILYDAD to get 35% off your first subscription! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, April 07, 2025
This Reminds You How Lucky You Are
Yeah, these kids are crazy. Yeah, they are a lot…and take a lot out of us. But aren’t they also the best? 📚 Grab a copy of Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan at The Painted Porch | https://www.thepaintedporch.com/ Hiya | We've worked out a special deal with Hiya for their best selling children's vitamin for 50% off your first order. To claim this deal you must go to hiyahealth.com/DAILYDAD . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, April 05, 2025
Your Kids See More Than You Think | Ryan Holiday
It's the little things we do every day that shape our kids in big ways. In today’s episode, Ryan shares 7 powerful ways to lead by example and become the best role model for your kids. Squarespace | Go to Squarespace.com/DOTHEWORK to save 10% on your first purchase of a website or domain! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, April 04, 2025
Teach Them To Make It Beautiful
We only get one go at this thing called existence. We have to show them what happens when you take the time to do things right. 📕 Grab a copy of the leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad and learn how you can provide the structure and support to help your kids discover who they are today! Squarespace | Go to Squarespace.com/DOTHEWORK to save 10% on your first purchase of a website or domain! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, April 03, 2025
It’s Amazing For Them
It can be thankless. It is tough. It pushes you in ways you never could have imagined. Should it really surprise us that people are having fewer kids? Or that some people are deciding to not have them at all? Tinker, create and innovate with KiwiCo! Get 50% off your first crate at KiwiCo.com with code DAILYDAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, April 02, 2025
We Can’t Lie Like This
It’s tempting to think that we’re protecting their belief in the world and in humanity by shielding them from the horrors of the past, but real hope isn’t built on illusions. 🎥 Watch Wright Thompson’s FULL interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qSqE7lvrzX0 📚 Pick up copies of The Barn and Wright Thompson’s other books, The Cost of These Dreams , Pappyland , at The Painted Porch | https://www.thepaintedporch.com/ Tinker, create and innovate with KiwiCo! Get 50% off your first crate at KiwiCo.com with code DAILYDAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, April 01, 2025
Take It While You Can
However old they are, whatever the activity is. Do it now. MasterClass | Get 15% off any annual membership at MasterClass.com/RYANHOLIDAY ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, March 31, 2025
We Can Love The Game
They think they are sneaky but they are absolutely horrible at it. They have absolutely no future as criminals, that’s for sure. MasterClass | Get 15% off any annual membership at MasterClass.com/RYANHOLIDAY ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, March 29, 2025
Austin Kleon: “Our Kids Need Bullsh*t Detectors!"
Bestselling author and artist Austin Kleon joins Ryan to discuss the challenges of raising kids in the digital age of social media and AI. He shares a recent Stoic lesson he taught his child about handling online validation, his strategies for making the most of car rides with his kids, and the key parenting advice he would offer to new parents. 📚Grab signed copies of Austin Kleon ’s books, Steal Like An Artist:10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative , Show Your Work! , Keep Going , at The Painted Porch: https://www.thepaintedporch.com/ 🎥 Watch the FULL episode with Austin Kleon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEYhYi27QqY You can follow his work at austinkleon.com , Instagram @austinkleon , and Twitter @austinkleon . Tushbaby is here to make parenting a little easier—one day, or carry at a time. Visit Tushbaby.com and start customizing your own carrier. Make sure to use code DAILY DAD for 20% your first order. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, March 28, 2025
Don’t Deny Them This
Let them be bored. Let them cultivate some time with themselves. 📕 Pick up a signed copy of Stillness Is The Key by Ryan Holiday at https://store.dailystoic.com/ Tushbaby is here to make parenting a little easier—one day, or carry at a time. Visit Tushbaby.com and start customizing your own carrier. Make sure to use code DAILY DAD for 20% your first order! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, March 27, 2025
They’ll Wreck This
How will we ever convince Google that we do not, in fact, like Mr. Beast or prank videos? Will our Netflix suggestions ever recover from the Cocomelon we have watched? It’s annoying to be sure, but it’s a small price to pay for them to discover their own interests. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, March 26, 2025
Show Them All The Strains
We owe it to them to show these branches of the family tree, to introduce them to the ancestors who planted the seeds that are now growing inside them. 📕 Grab a copy of the new leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad and learn how you can provide the structure and support to help your kids discover who they are today! Squarespace | Go to Squarespace.com/DOTHEWORK to save 10% on your first purchase of a website or domain! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, March 25, 2025
Let Them Know They Give You This
Your kids probably know how tough they are on you. But do they also know what joy you bring them? How much better they make your life? Squarespace | Go to Squarespace.com/DOTHEWORK to save 10% on your first purchase of a website or domain! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, March 24, 2025
Take The Relief From This
Although parenting certainly adds a lot to our plate, it’s also massively clarifying. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, March 22, 2025
Hidden Parenting Gems in Hamilton | Ryan Holiday
Is a Hamilton phase a rite of passage for families? While kids get swept up in the music and history, the musical also reflects the deep emotions, sacrifices, and challenges of parenthood. In this episode, Ryan shares the parenting lessons hidden in Hamilton that have stuck with him and might just hit home for you too. PIQUE | Get 20% + a FREE starter kit at https://piquelife.com/DAILYDAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, March 21, 2025
It’s Always Tough
Having kids makes you less available. Having kids makes you less up for certain things. Having kids costs you. Right now, you can get 20% off plus a FREE starter kit when you shop exclusively at Piquelife.com/DAILYDAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, March 20, 2025
It Matters Now!
We tell ourselves that when our kids are old we’ll make more time for them, we’ll have more freedom—and besides, they’ll appreciate it more when they’re older. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, March 19, 2025
Not Someday, But Soon
This moment you have right now, even if it’s stressful, even if it’s exhausting, even if it's ordinary and humdrum…it won’t feel that way almost immediately after it passes. Squarespace | Go to Squarespace.com/DOTHEWORK to save 10% on your first purchase of a website or domain! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, March 18, 2025
Are You Showing Them This?
If we want our children to embrace growth and challenge, we must model it ourselves. 💡 Challenge yourself to spring forward and become the person you aspire to be. The Spring Forward Challenge starts March 20, 2025. Visit dailystoic.com/spring and sign up now! 👉 Get The Spring Forward Challenge & all other Daily Stoic courses for FREE when you join Daily Stoic Life | dailystoic.com/life Squarespace | Go to Squarespace.com/DOTHEWORK to save 10% on your first purchase of a website or domain! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, March 17, 2025
Can You Do This?
It all becomes like a blur, the big moments and the small ones, one task from the next, one day to the next. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, March 15, 2025
Josh Brolin: "I Just Had A Parenting Freak Out"
Josh Brolin sits down with Ryan, fresh off a full-blown parenting meltdown. As he puts it, “I just had to read The Daily Dad to calm the f**k down.” In today's episode, Josh and Ryan dive into the raw realities of fatherhood, the influence of his own parents, and the timeless lessons that continue to shape him as a dad. Josh Brolin's breakout role was in The Goonies (1985), and after a hiatus from Hollywood, he made a powerful comeback in No Country for Old Men (2007). He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Dan White in the biopic Milk (2008). Brolin is also known for playing Thanos in the Avengers series, Cable in the Deadpool films, and Gurney Halleck in the Dune franchise. You can grab a copy of From Under The Truck by Josh Brolin at The Painted Porch . Follow Josh on Instagram @JoshBrolin and on X @TheJoshBrolin 🎥 Watch Josh Brolin's full interview on The Daily Stoic Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ-6PW-CsdE 💪 Go to livemomentous.com to get 20% off with the code DAILYDAD20 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, March 14, 2025
There Is So Much More Inside You Now
You liked children. You cared about people besides yourself. But then you had your own kids, and something changed. 💪 Momentous | Go to livemomentous.com to get to 20% with the code DAILYDAD20 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, March 13, 2025
Stop Winging This
A family, like any great team, needs structure. It needs shared goals. It needs everyone to know their role. 📕 You can grab copies of What You’re Made For by George Raveling and Ryan Holiday at The Painted Porch: https://www.thepaintedporch.com/ Squarespace | Go to Squarespace.com/DOTHEWORK to save 10% on your first purchase of a website or domain! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, March 12, 2025
Heed This Reminder
Don’t let yourself ignore spring’s delicate reminder of time’s passing. Don’t settle into old patterns and busy schedules that you’ll end up regretting years from now. 💡 Challenge yourself to spring forward and become the person you aspire to be. The Spring Forward Challenge starts March 20, 2025. Visit dailystoic.com/spring and sign up now! Squarespace | Go to Squarespace.com/DOTHEWORK to save 10% on your first purchase of a website or domain! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, March 11, 2025
What Will This Experience Give You?
None of us have it easy. It’s hard, but that’s what makes it powerful. Tushbaby is here to make parenting a little easier—one day, or carry at a time. Visit Tushbaby.com and start customizing your own carrier. Make sure to use code DAILY DAD for 20% your first order. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, March 10, 2025
Just Give Them A Little More Time
Let’s try to give our kids some space, some patience, some support. Every person has their own timetable. Tushbaby is here to make parenting a little easier—one day, or carry at a time. Visit Tushbaby.com and start customizing your own carrier. Make sure to use code DAILY DAD for 20% your first order. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, March 08, 2025
There Are No Perfect Parents | Reassurance from Richard Reeves and Donald Robertson
Wishing you’d handled a parenting moment differently? Feeling overwhelmed? In today's episode, Richard Reeves and Donald Robertson share reassuring advice on navigating the challenges of raising kids, from managing school stress to leading by example. With a dose of self-forgiveness, you'll become a more confident, patient parent. 🎥 Check out Ryan Holiday's YouTube Channel to watch the bookstore tour videos: https://www.youtube.com/@RyanHolidayOfficial 🎙️ Listen to Richard Reeve’s FULL interview on The Daily Stoic Podcast: PART 1: Apple Podcasts & Spotify PART 2: Apple Podcasts & Spotify 📚 You can grab signed copies of Of Boys and Men by Richard Reeves at The Painted Porch 🎙️ Listen to Donald Robertson's FULL interview on The Daily Stoic Podcast on Apple Podcasts & Spotify 🎥 Watch Donald Robertson's interview on Youtube 📕 Pick up a copy of Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor and How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius signed by Donald Robertson at The Painted Porch: https://www.thepaintedporch.com/ Squarespace | Go to Squarespace.com/DOTHEWORK to save 10% on your first purchase of a website or domain! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , <a href="https://facebook.com
Fri, March 07, 2025
Here’s The Joy
You have all these responsibilities to manage…and so little time to manage them. Is there a way we can shrug some of the heaviness off and be happy? Squarespace | Go to Squarespace.com/DOTHEWORK to save 10% on your first purchase of a website or domain! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, March 06, 2025
You Can’t Be Afraid
It’s understandable to be a little intimidated by the talents and interests and even beliefs of our kids. But we can’t give into this fear. We have to get over it. Hiya Health | Get 50% off your first order at hiyahealth.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, March 05, 2025
It Should Be Good, Not Easy
We love our children deeply and want to protect them from hardship. But we must let them struggle. Our Luctor Et Emergo Medallion will serve as a reminder not to solve every problem for your children and instead take the time to build the confidence and character they need to overcome life’s challenges. Grab your Luctor Et Emergo Medallion at our Daily Dad store! Hiya Health | Get 50% off your first order at hiyahealth.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, March 04, 2025
When They Can Take This For Granted, So Much Is Possible…
People with a chip on their shoulder can be highly motivated. Far less often do we think about what someone who is loved and supported can do. Think of the advantages they have. Don't miss our fascinating conversation with Philipp Meyer on The Daily Stoic Podcas t, where he discussed his unconventional path to success, the philosophy that inspires his writing, and more. 🎙️ Listen to the full episode here 🎥 Watch it over at the Daily Stoic Podcast YouTube channel 📚 Philipp Meyer’s The Son is a must-read, multi-generational epic that’s on par with the show Yellowstone, but set in Texas (and better). You can grab a copy over at The Painted Porch. Tinker, create and innovate with KiwiCo! Get 50 percent off your first crate at KiwiCo.com with code DAILYDAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, March 03, 2025
It’s An Insane Pleasure
Kids remind us, in their uninhibited laughter and their wide-eyed wonder, of the simple pleasures of being alive. Tinker, create and innovate with KiwiCo! Get 50 percent off your first crate at KiwiCo.com with code DAILYDAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, March 01, 2025
You'll Never Watch Disney the Same Way Again | Ryan and Sam Holiday
In today's episode, Ryan and Sam Holiday reveal how becoming parents heightened their sensitivity to books, movies, and other entertainment. They talk about the questionable plot lines of Disney movies, the emotional minefield of parenting and media, and give a behind-the-scenes look at their household dynamics. 💡 Check out the The Parent-To-Be: A Daily Dad Parenting Challenge! Our goal with this challenge is to bring you the wisdom of your forefathers and foremothers in a way that's eminently accessible and immediately applicable. The Parent-To-Be: A Daily Dad Parenting Challenge was created to prepare you for the most important task of your life. Squarespace | Go to Squarespace.com/DOTHEWORK to save 10% on your first purchase of a website or domain! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, February 28, 2025
This Is What Real Winners Do
Some parents believe competition doesn't matter. Others believes competition is the only thing that matters. Like so many two-sided debates, there's a third option that both sides miss—one that's actually far superior, though much more nuanced. Tushbaby is here to make parenting a little easier—one day, or carry at a time. Visit Tushbaby.com and start customizing your own carrier. Make sure to use code DAILY DAD for 20% your first order. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, February 27, 2025
You Have It Right Now
You have the thing that your future self will be pining for. Why aren’t you acting like it? Squarespace | Go to Squarespace.com/DOTHEWORK to save 10% on your first purchase of a website or domain! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, February 26, 2025
It’s Not Just The Summers, You Know
You only get 18 summers with your kids. It’s a popular bit of parenting advice. We’ve said it here before. The problem is that it’s not really true. Right now, you can get 20% off plus a FREE starter kit when you shop exclusively at Piquelife.com/DAILYDAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, February 25, 2025
There Is No History Without This
If we want them to think critically, to rise above the mistakes of the past, we have to stop shielding them from it. 📚 Pick up copies of The Barn and Wright Thompson’s other books, The Cost of These Dreams , Pappyland , at The Painted Porch | https://www.thepaintedporch.com/ 🎥 Watch Wright Thompson’s FULL interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qSqE7lvrzX0 Tushbaby is here to make parenting a little easier—one day, or carry at a time. Visit Tushbaby.com and start customizing your own carrier. Make sure to use code DAILY DAD for 20% your first order. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, February 24, 2025
They’ll Have This AND That
We can’t expect our kids to be perfect. We have to be patient. Right now, you can get 20% off plus a FREE starter kit when you shop exclusively at Piquelife.com/DAILYDAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, February 22, 2025
5 Timeless Parenting Lessons from Abraham Lincoln
What can Abraham Lincoln, a Stoic at heart, teach modern parents? Ryan Holiday discusses lessons he's learned from the 16th President that he uses on a regular basis to raise his two young children. 📚 Check out this Instagram post that shows all the books on Lincoln that Ryan Holiday has read and recommends! 🎥 Watch this episode on The Daily Dad YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtw5SjfMyfw This episode is sponsored by/brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/DAILYDAD and get on your way to being your best self. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, February 21, 2025
Don’t Fight This War
Why focus on arbitrary games and credential-chasing—which won't lead to the same success as it once did—when you could help your children develop real, useful skills? This episode is sponsored by/brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/DAILYDAD and get on your way to being your best self. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, February 20, 2025
It’s Almost Relaxing
They’re crazy. Your life is crazy. It’s a lot. Your kids are a lot. 🎥 Watch Scott Galloway on The Daily Stoic Podcast: https://youtu.be/678OhMsbMsU Get Huel today with this exclusive offer for New Customers of 15% OFF + a FREE Gift with code DAILYDAD at http://huel.com/dailydad (With Minimum $75 purchase) ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, February 19, 2025
It’s The One Thing We Have In Common
We come from different places. We believe different things. And yet… Get Huel today with this exclusive offer for New Customers of 15% OFF + a FREE Gift with code DAILYDAD at http://huel.com/dailydad (With Minimum $75 purchase). ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, February 18, 2025
Can You Believe It?
You were free. Life was simple. And now all of that is gone. 🎶 Do Not Let Your Spirit Wane by Gang of Youths Squarespace | Go to Squarespace.com/DOTHEWORK to save 10% on your first purchase of a website or domain! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, February 17, 2025
Stop Letting This Embarrass You
Do your best to clean up and teach them good behavior, but bring those wonderful "brats" with you. Squarespace | Go to Squarespace.com/DOTHEWORK to save 10% on your first purchase of a website or domain! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, February 15, 2025
Raising Young Athletes Right | Steve Magness and Ryan Holiday
Performance coach and expert Steve Magness joins Ryan for a deep dive into the flaws of the American sports system and what we can learn from Norway’s successful youth sports culture. Steve breaks down why kids burn out, how parents accidentally make things worse, and what actually helps kids stay motivated and love sports for life. 🎙️Listen to Steve Magness’s FULL episode on The Daily Stoic Podcast | Apple Podcast , Spotify , YouTube Steve Magness is a world-renowned expert on performance and author of Win the Inside Game: How to Move from Surviving to Thriving, and Free Yourself Up to Perform . His writing has appeared in Forbes, Sports Illustrated, Men’s Health, and a variety of other outlets. Steve’s expertise on elite sport and performance has been featured in The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and ESPN The Magazine. Check out Steve’s new book Win The Inside Game and grab signed copies of Steve’s books, Do Hard Things , Passion Paradox , Peak Performance , and The Science of Running at The Painted Porch . You can follow Steve on Instagram , X , and YouTube : @SteveMagness Squarespace | Go to Squarespace.com/DOTHEWORK to save 10% on your first purchase of a website or domain! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram
Fri, February 14, 2025
Be Careful Telling Them This
Letting our kids struggle and face challenges isn't always easy—for us or them. Our Luctor Et Emergo Medallion will help you remember to slow down and take advantage of teachable moments with your children. Grab your Luctor Et Emergo Medallion at our Daily Dad store! 💪 Go to livemomentous.com and get 20% off with the code DAILYDAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, February 13, 2025
You Feel It All More Now
Being a parent opens you up. It turns on a special sensitivity, an acuteness that allows you to see and hear and notice things your younger, less experienced self might have glossed right over. 📚 Pick up copies of The Barn and Wright Thompson’s other books, The Cost of These Dreams , Pappyland , at The Painted Porch | https://www.thepaintedporch.com/ 🎥 Watch Wright Thompson’s FULL interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qSqE7lvrzX0 Squarespace | Go to Squarespace.com/DOTHEWORK to save 10% on your first purchase of a website or domain! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, February 12, 2025
Hold Them To You Like This
We worry, we care, we struggle to find the right balance—and our well-meaning efforts backfire. PIQUE : Get 20% off + a FREE starter kit at https://www.piquelife.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, February 11, 2025
Sometimes This Is All You Can Do
We are so vulnerable as parents, hostages to fortune because of these little kids we love. 💪 Go to livemomentous.com and get 20% off with the code DAILYDAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, February 10, 2025
It’s All So Delicate
Savor this dream while you're living it. Cherish every moment you have. Life can change in an instant. PIQUE : Get 20% off + a FREE starter kit at https://www.piquelife.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, February 08, 2025
Matthew McConaughey: "I’ve Hit My Sweet Spot as a Father"
One minute, they’re little kids holding your hand, and before you know it they’re teenagers off in their own world. Matthew McConaughey sits down with Ryan to talk about the crazy speed of parenting, the balancing act between being a guide and letting kids find their own way, and how fatherhood evolves—especially when your kids start seeing you as more of a friend. To receive weekly wisdom from Matthew McConaughey, you can sign up to his brand new newsletter at lyricsoflivin.com . You can follow him on Twitter @McConaughey , Instagram @officiallymcconaughey , and YouTube at Matthew McConaughey 📚Grab a paperback copy of Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey at The Painted Porch: https://www.thepaintedporch.com/ 🎙️Don’t forget to listen to Matthew McConaughey’s FULL interview with Ryan on Apple Podcasts and Spotify Squarespace | Go to Squarespace.com/DOTHEWORK to save 10% on your first purchase of a website or domain! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, February 07, 2025
Why Do We Do This?
We carry shame from things our parents harped on. It’s understandable…but still terrible. 📔 Get a signed leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad here: dailydad.com/leather Squarespace | Go to Squarespace.com/DOTHEWORK to save 10% on your first purchase of a website or domain! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, February 06, 2025
If You Want Their Respect…
When things aren’t working, it’s probably because you are checked out, checking your inbox again, scrolling social media again. They can tell you’re not paying attention. HUEL | Get 15% off + a FREE gift with code DAILY DAD at https://huel.com/DAILYDAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, February 05, 2025
How Else Are They Supposed To Get This?
You want them to be independent. You don’t want them to just blindly follow instructions or fall for every confident, powerful person they come across. The trouble is that right now, though, you just want them to listen. Hiya Health | hiyahealth.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, February 04, 2025
Where To Find The Reward
Is the reward supposed to be that they grow up and be successful? Are you supposed to wait for their high school graduation or their wedding to feel like it was all worth it? Hiya Health | hiyahealth.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, February 03, 2025
This Is What Completeness Comes From
Parenting, we’ve said, is not about those exciting moments of quality time. Nor, it turns out, is life supposed to be moments of accomplishments or conquest or hedonic pleasure. HUEL | Get 15% off + a FREE gift with code DAILY DAD at https://huel.com/DAILYDAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, February 01, 2025
Living With a Stoic | Ryan and Sam Holiday
In today’s episode, Ryan and Sam discuss the impact Stoicism has had on Ryan, both in their marriage and as a parent. Plus, they also share how Meditations by Marcus Aurelius may have unexpectedly shaped the foundation of their relationship. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, January 31, 2025
Be Ready To Use This
Who knows how much longer this chaos will last? What we do know is that everything we’ve endured, every lesson we’ve learned, every challenge we’ve faced, has been preparing us for this moment. 📚 Book Mentioned: Phosphorescence: A Memoir of Finding Joy When Your World Goes Dark by Julia Baird Squarespace | Go to Squarespace.com/DOTHEWORK to save 10% on your first purchase of a website or domain! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, January 30, 2025
They Can Hear You
We know they’re listening, so we ought to use this opportunity. HUEL | Get 15% off with code DAILY DAD at Huel.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, January 29, 2025
Show Them It’s Never Too Late
We’d never tell our kids it was too late for them, that the best is behind them, that they can’t recover, rebuild, or begin again. So why wouldn’t we tell ourselves the same thing? Since we received such great feedback from the launch of 2025's New Year New You Challenge , we decided to RE-OPEN the challenge for February. Head over to dailystoic.com/challenge today to sign up. Squarespace | Go to Squarespace.com/DOTHEWORK to save 10% on your first purchase of a website or domain! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, January 28, 2025
Three Rules for Life
“Don’t flinch,” Theodore Roosevelt wrote, “don’t foul, hit the line hard.” 📚Check out the Virtue Series 3-Book Bundle which includes Ryan Holiday’s books: Courage is Calling , Discipline is Destiny , and Right Thing, Right Now HUEL | Get 15% off + a FREE gift with code DAILY DAD at Huel.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, January 27, 2025
It’s Happening In Your House Too
They were a baby and now they’re not. Because we’re so busy in our own lives, we forgot about—we lost track of—that thing that’s always happening in the background, the passage of time. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, January 25, 2025
Connect With Them This Way | Ryan Holiday
As parents, something we could all work on is showing genuine interest in their passions, taking them seriously, and opening our minds to their world. In today’s solo episode, Ryan shares how his kids’ passions have sparked his own creativity at work. He talks about how being curious about what his kids are into has not only brought them closer but also inspired him. HUEL | Get 15% off with code DAILY DAD at Huel.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, January 24, 2025
They’re More Important (And You Know It)
Most of whatever we’re doing can wait. Take it. Play. Sit with them. Talk with them. 🏛 All time can be quality time. Get your own Tempus Fugit Medallion to remind yourself of this at The Daily Dad Store: https://store.dailydad.com/ ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, January 23, 2025
You Can Handle More Than You Can Handle
You have so much more in you than it feels like you do. Squarespace | Go to Squarespace.com/DOTHEWORK to save 10% on your first purchase of a website or domain! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, January 22, 2025
Have You Given This Gift?
Give where you can. Lend a hand, show up for others. Because when the time comes, we’ll hope that someone else cared enough to do the same. 📚 Check out Sebastian Junger’s books at The Painted Porch | https://www.thepaintedporch.com 🎥 Watch Sebastian Junger on the Wonder of Existence and Complexity of Freedom here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8DVlwrGQwY Squarespace | Go to Squarespace.com/DOTHEWORK to save 10% on your first purchase of a website or domain! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, January 21, 2025
Let Them See This Too
Your kids adore the everyday you. The home-you. The bedtime-stories-you. But they also deserve to see the version of you that’s out there conquering the world. 📕 We’re excited to announce that we’ve put together a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad! Check it out at dailydad.com/leather HUEL | Get 15% off with code DAILY DAD at Huel.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, January 20, 2025
You Can’t Let This Happen
You’re the person your kids look to and look up to. You must keep an even keel. 🎙️ Listen to Mike Duncan’s interview on the Daily Stoic | Apple Podcasts & Spotify ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, January 18, 2025
The Shift From Self To Selflessness | Jordan Harbinger and Ryan Holiday
Becoming a parent shifts your perspective on every decision. In today’s episode, Jordan Harbinger and Ryan Holiday discuss how fatherhood has changed them, the sacrifices they’ve made for their families, and how each generation has a different view on parenting. 🎙️ Listen to Ryan interviewing Jordan Harbinger: The Price of Integrity | Jordan Harbinger - Apple Podcasts and Spotify What We Can Learn From The Rich And Famous | Jordan Harbinger - Apple Podcasts and Spotify Listen to Ryan’s previous interviews on The Jordan Harbinger Show: 45: Ryan Holiday | Solving for What You Really Want from Life 271: Ryan Holiday | Stillness Is the Key 740: Ryan Holiday | Discipline is Destiny (Live from Los Angeles) Connect with Jordan on Instagram , X , YouTube , TikTok : @JordanHarbinger 💪 Go to livemomentous.com and get 20% off with the code DAILYDAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, January 17, 2025
Teach Them To Be Brave
Courage cannot just be something your children read about in stories. It must be something they witness. Something they see alive in you. 📕 Check out Ryan Holiday’s Courage is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave . It’s all how you can better conquer fear, modeling bravery in your life and serving as an example of courage for your kids. You can grab signed copies here: https://store.dailystoic.com/ 💪 Go to livemomentous.com and get 20% off with the code DAILYDAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, January 16, 2025
You Get What You Get
You got what you got and that makes you incredibly lucky. Celebrate it. Squarespace | Go to Squarespace.com/DOTHEWORK to save 10% on your first purchase of a website or domain! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, January 15, 2025
It Won’t Come Easy
They emerge from struggle stronger…but that struggle is tough. It’s tough for them and it’s tough for you to watch. But it has to happen. Our Luctor Et Emergo Medallion will help you remember to slow down and take advantage of teachable moments with your children. Grab your Luctor Et Emergo Medallion at our Daily Dad store! Squarespace | Go to Squarespace.com/DOTHEWORK to save 10% on your first purchase of a website or domain! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, January 14, 2025
Speak In This Language
Helping is how we let them know what they mean to us. Get a signed leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad! Check it out at dailydad.com/leather This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/DAILYDAD and get on your way to being your best self. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, January 13, 2025
This Is What You’ll Have To Manage
Isn’t this what parenting demands of us? To trust our instincts. To keep our cool when chaos reigns. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/DAILYDAD and get on your way to being your best self. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, January 11, 2025
Balancing Presence At Home and Life On The Road | Benj Gershman
As the bassist for the rock band O.A.R., Benj Gershman understands that life on the road comes with the territory. Still, being away from his family for weeks at a time is a constant challenge. In today's episode, Benj and Ryan dive into the struggles of balancing touring with family life, the emotional push and pull of being on the road, and the temptation to keep agreeing to more gigs. You can follow Benj on Instagram @BenjGershman and OAR @OfARevolution Check out Benj’s podcast all about mental health support called What Could Be Bad Listen to Benj's FULL episode on The Daily Stoic Podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify HUEL | Get 15% off with code DAILY DAD at Huel.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, January 10, 2025
It Can Wait
One day our kids will leave the house and the choice to spend more time with them will no longer be up to us. 🏛 All time can be quality time. Get your own Tempus Fugit Medallion to remind yourself of this at The Daily Dad Store: https://store.dailydad.com/ ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, January 09, 2025
You Must Be Immune To This
One of the hardest tasks of our time, is not to let bad times turn you into a bad person. This is especially true for parents because in your care is the next generation. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, January 08, 2025
Why Not Get Better Here?
We spend a lot of time on superficial stuff–we even call it “work”–but rarely do we expend the same amount of effort on the stuff that really matters. 📕 The Daily Stoic eBook is on sale for $2.99! Grab yours now at dailystoic.com/discount 📔 Get a signed leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad here: dailydad.com/leather HUEL | Get 15% off with code DAILY DAD at Huel.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, January 07, 2025
What If They Didn’t Have To Prove It?
What if, instead of spending their lives chasing trophies or validation, they spent their lives exploring, creating, connecting—driven not by fear or insecurity but by curiosity and joy? Hiya Health | hiyahealth.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, January 06, 2025
They Need This To Grow Up
As we say here, luctor et emergo. “Struggle and I emerge.” Our kids need to be challenged. Our Luctor Et Emergo Medallion will help you remember to slow down and take advantage of teachable moments with your children. Grab your Luctor Et Emergo Medallion at our Daily Dad store! Hiya Health | hiyahealth.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, January 04, 2025
Teaching Kids the Powers and Pitfalls of AI | Ryan Holiday
AI is going to change the world in good ways and bad ways. We have to figure out how to use it, not just responsibly, but effectively. Today, Ryan Holiday talks about how he had used AI as a learning opportunity for his kids, teaching them about AI's potential, the importance of accurate communication, and various ethical considerations. Check out Ethan Mollick's Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/ Pick up a copy of From Under The Truck by Josh Brolin: https://www.thepaintedporch.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, January 03, 2025
The Moments of Leniency Matter
On December 29, 2024, President Jimmy Carter died at the age of 100. If you’ve been around awhile, then you know what an inspiration his example as a father has been to us here at The Daily Dad. That’s why, in his honor, we wanted to share our favorite Jimmy Carter entry from The Daily Dad book. 📕 The Daily Dad eBook is on sale for $2.99! Grab yours now at dailydad.com/discount 📔 Get a signed leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad here: dailydad.com/leather ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, January 02, 2025
They Don’t Define You—And You Don’t Define Them
Don’t conflate their choices or circumstances with your identity. Your kids are their own people. 📕 The Daily Dad eBook is on sale for $2.99! Grab yours now at dailydad.com/discount We’re excited to announce that we’ve put together a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad! Check it out at dailydad.com/leather HUEL | Get 15% off with code DAILY DAD at Huel.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, January 01, 2025
You Work Hard, But Are You Working on This?
We should always want our actions and choices to be the direct cause of our improvement in every arena of life, parenting most of all. 📕 The Daily Dad eBook is on sale for $2.99! Grab yours now at dailydad.com/discount The Daily Stoic New Year, New You Challenge is 3 weeks of ALL-NEW, actionable challenges, presented in an email per day, built around the best, most timeless wisdom in Stoic philosophy, to help you create a better life, and a new you in 2025. Why 3 weeks? Because it takes human beings 21 days to build new habits and skills, to create the muscle memory of making beautiful choices each and every day. Head over to dailystoic.com/challenge today to sign up. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, December 31, 2024
Let Them See This
Let your kids see you step up. Show them that challenges aren’t something to fear—they’re opportunities to grow. The Daily Stoic New Year, New You Challenge is 3 weeks of ALL-NEW, actionable challenges, presented in an email per day, built around the best, most timeless wisdom in Stoic philosophy, to help you create a better life, and a new you in 2025. Why 3 weeks? Because it takes human beings 21 days to build new habits and skills, to create the muscle memory of making beautiful choices each and every day. Head over to dailystoic.com/challenge today to sign up. 📕 The Daily Dad eBook is on sale for $2.99! Grab yours now at dailydad.com/discount ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, December 30, 2024
Rich Is How Much You Get To Do This
Can someone truly be called wealthy, rich, or successful if the price of that success is their constant absence? The Daily Dad is just $2.99 as an ebook right now ! We’re not sure how long the price drop will last, so get it for yourself or as a gift while you still can. HUEL | Get 15% off with code DAILY DAD at Huel.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, December 28, 2024
Carry These Stoic Parenting Lessons Into 2025
As the year comes to a close, today's episode features some of the top Stoic parenting advice and strategies learned on The Daily Stoic and The Daily Dad podcasts over the last 12 months. Let's carry over these timeless messages into the New Year and continue getting better at our most important job. 🎙️ Episodes Mentioned: Stop Having So Many Opinions | Ryan And Sam Holiday David Kessler on Finding Meaning in Grief and Practicing the Art of Memento Mori The Key Media Strategies for Maximum Impact | Gary Vaynerchuck 📚 Books Mentioned: Finding Meaning and the Finding Meaning Workbook by David Kessler Meet Me in the Middle: A VeeFriends Book by Gary Vaynerchuck 📕 We’re excited to announce that we’ve put together a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad! Check it out at dailydad.com/leather MasterClass | Get up to 50% off at MasterClass.com/DAILYDAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, December 27, 2024
You’re In A Hurry And Don’t Know Why
Slow down. Take a breath. Because one day, they’ll stop asking for stories. The Daily Stoic New Year, New You Challenge is 3 weeks of ALL-NEW, actionable challenges, presented in an email per day, built around the best, most timeless wisdom in Stoic philosophy, to help you create a better life, and a new you in 2025. Why 3 weeks? Because it takes human beings 21 days to build new habits and skills, to create the muscle memory of making beautiful choices each and every day. Head over to dailystoic.com/challenge today to sign up. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, December 26, 2024
Who Will Get Your Patience?
We only have a finite amount of patience. So why are we giving all of it away to people who are not our children? The Daily Stoic New Year, New You Challenge is 3 weeks of ALL-NEW, actionable challenges, presented in an email per day, built around the best, most timeless wisdom in Stoic philosophy, to help you create a better life, and a new you in 2025. Why 3 weeks? Because it takes human beings 21 days to build new habits and skills, to create the muscle memory of making beautiful choices each and every day. Head over to dailystoic.com/challenge today to sign up. 💪 Go to livemomentous.com and get 15% off with the code DAILYDAD15 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, December 25, 2024
This Is A Gift To Give Yourself (And Your Family)
Think about the gifts you have to give them today—your love, your support, your presence—to receive the gift of a crowded table in the future. We’re excited to announce that we’ve put together a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad! Check it out at dailydad.com/leather ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, December 24, 2024
We All Must Do Both
We have to be a resilient, flexible, well-rounded human being not just to survive the stresses of parenting but if we want to raise kids for the world. MasterClass | Get up to 50% off at MasterClass.com/DAILYDAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, December 23, 2024
It Does Matter
It’s not about trophies or test scores; it’s about raising children who are awake to the world, who understand what it means to be decent and good, and who are brave enough to step forward and make a difference. 📕 Grab a signed copy of Right Thing, Right Now by Ryan Holiday | https://store.dailystoic.com/ 💪 Go to livemomentous.com and get 15% off with the code DAILYDAD15 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, December 21, 2024
Parenting Lessons Reversed | Holli Herrera and Sam Holiday
When your kids hold you accountable to your own lessons, it’s a reminder that living up to your words is just as important as speaking them. Holli Herrera, the wife of MxPx rockstar Mike Herrera, joins Sam Holiday talk about when your kids turn your parenting back on you, when to let them quit something, and witnessing them get better at processing their emotions. Follow Sam Holiday on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samagerie/?hl=en Follow Holli Herrera on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holliherrera/?hl=en Hiya Health | hiyahealth.com/dailydad Storyworth | Save $10 on your first purchase at https://storyworth.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, December 20, 2024
This Is Criminal
Perfection isn’t the goal. But trying— trying is essential. The Daily Stoic New Year, New You Challenge is 3 weeks of ALL-NEW, actionable challenges, presented in an email per day, built around the best, most timeless wisdom in Stoic philosophy, to help you create a better life, and a new you in 2025. Why 3 weeks? Because it takes human beings 21 days to build new habits and skills, to create the muscle memory of making beautiful choices each and every day. Head over to dailystoic.com/challenge today to sign up. HUEL | Get 15% off with code DAILY DAD at Huel.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, December 19, 2024
This Isn’t New, You Know
Before we get too high and mighty about the craziness and selfishness of our kids, maybe it’s time to look in the mirror. Aura | Get $35 off with code DAILY DAD at auraframes.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, December 18, 2024
Your Kids Deserve This From You
As we approach the end of 2024 and look toward the start of 2025, we have an opportunity to take a hard, honest look at ourselves. What example are you setting for your kids that, deep down, you know you need to change? The Daily Stoic New Year, New You Challenge is 3 weeks of ALL-NEW, actionable challenges, presented in an email per day, built around the best, most timeless wisdom in Stoic philosophy, to help you create a better life, and a new you in 2025. Why 3 weeks? Because it takes human beings 21 days to build new habits and skills, to create the muscle memory of making beautiful choices each and every day. Head over to dailystoic.com/challenge today to sign up. HUEL | Get 15% off with code DAILY DAD at Huel.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, December 17, 2024
Raise You A Kid Who Can Do Both
Our job as parents is to help our kids “become who they are.” This is true, but our job is also to expand who they are. 🎙️Listen to Richard Reeves' interview on The Daily Stoic podcast PART 1: Apple Podcasts & Spotify PART 2: Apple Podcasts & Spotify 🎥 Watch Richard Reeves’ interview with Ryan on YouTube 📕 We’re excited to announce that we’ve put together a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad just in time for the holidays! Check it out at dailydad.com/leather Aura | Get $35 off with code DAILY DAD at auraframes.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, December 16, 2024
What Is This?
As parents, we obviously have to provide for them. Obviously we have to protect them. But what is the job? Storyworth | Save $10 on your first purchase at https://storyworth.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, December 14, 2024
Keeping Up with the Joneses | Ryan and Sam Holiday
It’s easy to feel like you’re falling behind when the other parents seem to have it all: nicer cars, stylish clothes, and a picture-perfect life. Today, Ryan and Sam share their experience of moving one of their children to a school in a wealthier area, and how this transition has been a powerful reminder to stop trying to 'keep up with the Joneses' and focus on what truly matters. Loftie | Use code DAILYDAD20 to get 20% off orders over $125! Head to ByLoftie.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, December 13, 2024
Can You Imagine?
It is not too late for us to love our kids. To love them completely. The Daily Stoic New Year, New You Challenge is 3 weeks of ALL-NEW, actionable challenges, presented in an email per day, built around the best, most timeless wisdom in Stoic philosophy, to help you create a better life, and a new you in 2025. Why 3 weeks? Because it takes human beings 21 days to build new habits and skills, to create the muscle memory of making beautiful choices each and every day. Head over to dailystoic.com/challenge today to sign up. Storyworth | Save $10 on your first purchase at https://storyworth.com/dailydad Cheesecakes by Elizabeth | Get 15% off your order with code DAILY DAD at https://cheesecakesbyelizabeth.com/ ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, December 12, 2024
They’re Only Going To Ask You So Many Times
“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” — Dr. Seuss 🎁 We’re excited to announce that we’ve put together a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad just in time for the holidays! Check it out at dailydad.com/leather 💪 Go to livemomentous.com and get 15% off with the code DAILYDAD15 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, December 11, 2024
Leave This To Them
When we hold back some answers, it’s not because we don’t love them—it’s because we love them so deeply. Our Luctor Et Emergo Medallion will help you remember to slow down and take advantage of teachable moments with your children. Grab your Luctor Et Emergo Medallion at our Daily Dad store! Loftie | Use code DAILYDAD20 to get 20% off orders over $125! Head to ByLoftie.com Cheesecakes by Elizabeth | Get 15% off your order with code DAILY DAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, December 10, 2024
This Is What You’re Made For
This is our most important job. It’s tough, sure, but it’s a thing that soon enough we will miss. We’re excited to announce that we’ve put together a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad just in time for the holidays! Check it out at dailydad.com/leather 💪 Go to livemomentous.com and get 15% off with the code DAILYDAD15 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
Mon, December 09, 2024
Let Them Like What They Like
Your kids like what they like. But first, they need your encouragement to start somewhere. We’re excited to announce that we’ve put together a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad just in time for the holidays! Check it out at dailydad.com/leather Storyworth | Save $10 on your first purchase at https://storyworth.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, December 07, 2024
How To Raise Hopeful Kids | Ryan Holiday and Sharon McMahon
It's our job to show our kids that they have the power to instigate change within themselves and their communities, regardless of external circumstances. Sharon McMahon, author of The Small and the Mighty , talks with Ryan about how parents can instill hope in their kids and show them that making a difference is accessible. Sharon is known as “America’s Government Teacher,” and after years as a high school government teacher, Sharon now runs the non-partisan, fact-based Instagram account @sharonsaysso . Sharon just released her book, The Small and the Mighty , where she proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn’t make it into the textbooks. 📚 You can grab signed copies of The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon at The Painted Porch. 🎙️Listen to Sharon’s FULL interview on The Daily Stoic podcast | Apple Podcasts & Spotify Check out Sharon’s podcast Here’s Where It Gets Interesting and follow her on Instagram @SharonSaysSo and on X @Sharon_Says_So KiwiCo | Get up to 50% off your first crate at kiwico.com with promo code DAILY DAD Aura | Get $35 off with code DAILY DAD at auraframes.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, December 06, 2024
This Is Always In Your Control
As a parent, all we control is what we teach our kids, what we do for and with them. KiwiCo | Get up to 50% off your first crate at kiwico.com with promo code DAILY DAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, December 05, 2024
You Can’t Run Away From This
We can’t just throw up our hands and say, “I’m busy, I can’t deal with this.” Because not only is that not fair to our children, it’s not fair to us. 📚 Pick up a copy of Elizabeth the Queen by Sally Bedell Smith at The Painted Porch This is a paid advertisement by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/DAILYDAD to get 10% of your first month | https://betterhelp.com/dailydad
Wed, December 04, 2024
Raise You A Kid Who Can Do Both
Our job as parents is to help our kids “become who they are.” This is true, but our job is also to expand who they are. 🎙️ Listen to Richard Reeves on the Daily Stoic Podcast | Apple Podcasts & Spotify 📚 You can grab signed copies of Of Boys and Men and Richard’s other book, Dream Hoarders , at The Painted Porch. We’re excited to announce that we’ve put together a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad just in time for the holidays! Check it out at dailydad.com/leather This is a paid advertisement by BetterHelp . Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/DAILYDAD to get 10% of your first month | https://betterhelp.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, December 03, 2024
It Is Solved By Walking
Walks are parenting magic. Seneca said that the mind must be given over to wandering walks, and so too must you and your kids. Aura | Get $35 off with code DAILY DAD at auraframes.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, December 02, 2024
This Is What You Should Want
Our job is not to raise kids at all. Our job is to raise adults. Every Thanksgiving, we encourage our listeners to join us in making a donation to Feeding America . Every $1 donated helps provide at least 10 meals. We donated the first $30,000, and we’d like your help in reaching our goal of $300,000. If we hit that goal of $300,000, it would provide over 3 MILLION meals for families across the country. Just head over to dailystoic.com/feed ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, November 30, 2024
Keep This Spark Alive In Them | Ryan Holiday
Every decision we make, big or small, has a ripple effect. Listen in to hear about Ryan's recent experience that reminded him of the importance of encouraging his sons when they show acts of kindness. 📚 Books Mentioned: The Road by Cormac McCarthy Reading For Our Lives by Maya Smart The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, November 29, 2024
Show Them What This Means
If you want generous kids, you have to show them what a generous parent is. There is no better time than the holiday season to do this. Every Thanksgiving, we encourage our listeners to join us in making a donation to Feeding America . Every $1 donated helps provide at least 10 meals. It only takes a little to make a big difference. We donated the first $30,000, and we’d like your help in reaching our goal of $300,000. If we hit that goal of $300,000, it would provide over 3 MILLION meals for families across the country. Just head over to dailystoic.com/feed and together we can make a significant dent in a big problem. As Seneca reminds us, intention and attitude are central aspects in giving. Your donations show those in need that someone else cares, that someone else is by their side—just like the loved ones around your dinner table who have been by your side over the years. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, November 28, 2024
This Is Why You Take It Seriously
Every Thanksgiving, we encourage our listeners to join us in making a donation to Feeding America . Every $1 donated helps provide at least 10 meals. It only takes a little to make a big difference. We donated the first $30,000, and we’d like your help in reaching our goal of $300,000. If we hit that goal of $300,000, it would provide over 3 MILLION meals for families across the country. Just head over to dailystoic.com/feed and together we can make a significant dent in a big problem. As Seneca reminds us, intention and attitude are central aspects in giving. Your donations show those in need that someone else cares, that someone else is by their side—just like the loved ones around your dinner table who have been by your side over the years. HUEL | Get 15% off with code DAILY DAD at Huel.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, November 27, 2024
They Can’t Reach Their Potential Without This
Without awareness there is no choice. How can our kids choose the life they want, if all they’ve really seen is our life? 📕 We’re excited to announce that we’ve put together a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad just in time for the holidays! Check it out at dailydad.com/leather Storyworth | Save $10 on your first purchase at https://storyworth.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, November 26, 2024
How Long Can You Go?
Dial back the criticism. Remember: you don’t need to have an opinion about everything. 📕 We’re excited to announce that we’ve put together a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad just in time for the holidays! Check it out at dailydad.com/leather Storyworth | Save $10 on your first purchase at https://storyworth.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, November 25, 2024
Let Them Think Whatever They Want
Your job is to be and do what your kids demand—what your specific family needs—and not care what anyone else thinks. That’s what the best parents do. HUEL | Get 15% off with code DAILY DAD at Huel.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, November 23, 2024
Co-Parenting While Chasing a Creative Dream | Holli Herrera and Sam Holiday
For every parent that has a creative and unconventional career, there is a partner keeping the family unit running smoothly behind the scenes. Holli Herrera, the wife of MxPx rockstar Mike Herrera , joins Sam Holiday talk about supporting a partner with a non-traditional career, the unique co-parenting challenges that come with it, and watching their kids inherit the same creative tendencies. Follow Sam Holiday on Instagram Follow Holli Herrera on Instagram Loftie | Use code DAILYDAD20 to get 20% off orders over $125! Head to ByLoftie.com 📕 Gift a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad this holiday season! Check it out at dailydad.com/leather ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, November 22, 2024
You Only Get This For So Long
They grow out of the wagon and the carseat and indeed, carpooling altogether. Love it while you can. 💪 Go to livemomentous.com and get 15% off with the code DAILYDAD15 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, November 21, 2024
Do Not Be Afraid
None of this parenting stuff is easy. A lot of it is scary. But it is essential. Loftie | Use code DAILYDAD20 to get 20% off orders over $125! Head to ByLoftie.com 📕 Gift a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad this holiday season! Check it out at dailydad.com/leather ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, November 20, 2024
Will You Catch It?
It all happens so quickly. The real question is: Will you capture it? 🏛 All time can be quality time. Get your own Tempus Fugit Medallion to remind yourself of this at The Daily Dad Store: https://store.dailydad.com/ ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, November 19, 2024
They Can’t Know
Having kids is impossible to convey to those who haven't experienced it. And that’s okay—it can be a beautiful little secret that binds all of us parents together. 📕 We’re excited to announce that we’ve put together a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad just in time for the holidays! Check it out at dailydad.com/leather 💪 Go to livemomentous.com and get 15% off with the code DAILYDAD15 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, November 18, 2024
The Extraordinary Will Take Care of Itself
Make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself. 📕 Pick up a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad at dailydad.com/leather ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, November 16, 2024
Remember To Give Them Grace | Julia Baird
Kids need grace just as much as parents do. Julia Baird joins Ryan to discuss the impermanence of childhood, the importance of grace in parenting, and the inevitable grief that accompanies their growth. 🎥 Watch Julia Baird’s interview with Ryan on YouTube Julia Baird is an author, broadcaster, and journalist based in Sydney, Australia. Be sure to check out her books, Phosphorescence: A Memoir of Finding Joy When Your World Goes Dark , Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire , and Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything . Follow Julia on Instagram @ JuliaBaird and on X @ BairdJulia Storyworth | Save $10 on your first purchase at https://storyworth.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, November 15, 2024
They Learned This Lesson For You
Remind yourself this morning and every morning: this will end. Tempus fugit. 📕 We’re excited to announce that we’ve put together a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad just in time for the holidays! Check it out at dailydad.com/leather ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, November 14, 2024
You’re Not Alone In This
Raising a family has always been a wild, chaotic daily existence—one filled with joy and difficulty, love and labor—that has humbled and inspired every parent. 📕 We’re excited to announce that we’ve put together a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad just in time for the holidays! Check it out at dailydad.com/leather ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, November 13, 2024
Let’s Study These Examples Instead
We would all be well served by picking some parenting heroes. 📕 We’re excited to announce that we’ve put together a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad just in time for the holidays! Check it out at dailydad.com/leather ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, November 12, 2024
They Deserve A Choice
Our job is to expand their horizons, to expose them to stuff, to give them awareness. So they can actually choose. Storyworth | Save $10 on your first purchase at https://storyworth.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, November 11, 2024
There Is Nothing Better Than This
"Love is the only legacy that matters. Let’s not point our love in the wrong direction." — Donald Miller 📕 Grab a copy of the special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad in time for the holidays! Check it out at dailydad.com/leather ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, November 09, 2024
Creating Headspace for Stillness | Ryan and Sam Holiday
While in Vancouver, mom of four asked Ryan - "How do I achieve stillness while being a parent and juggling everything in my business?" Ryan and Sam are sharing their different answers to this question, breaking down what stillness means to them and how they work to cultivate it in day to day life. 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto at ryanholiday.net/tour Hiya Health | hiyahealth.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, November 08, 2024
This Should Change You
You have to choose to be changed. It doesn’t happen the day you come home from the hospital with your newborn. 📕 We’re excited to announce that we’ve put together a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad just in time for the holidays! Check it out at dailydad.com/leather ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, November 07, 2024
How Are You Filling Their Bank?
"Each day of our lives we make deposits into the memory banks of our children." — Charles R. Swindoll 📕 Grab a copy of the special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad in time for the holidays! Check it out at dailydad.com/leather 💪 Go to livemomentous.com and get 15% off with the code DAILYDAD15 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, November 06, 2024
You Have To Accept This
Not only is your worry mostly impotent, but it often comes at the expense of this moment you have with them right now. 🪙 We are the creators of our anxiety. Which means we can also be the ones to do something about it. Gain a powerful tool in your fight against anxiety and get the Daily Stoic Anxiety Coin today! https://store.dailystoic.com/ This is a paid advertisement by BetterHelp . Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/DAILYDAD to get 10% of your first month | https://betterhelp.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, November 05, 2024
Compete On This
"Compete for yourself and root for everybody else." — Candice Millard 📕 We’re excited to announce that we’ve put together a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad just in time for the holidays! Check it out at dailydad.com/leather 💪 Go to livemomentous.com and get 15% off with the code DAILYDAD15 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, November 04, 2024
You Have To Pick Your Shots
Save your ammunition, pick your shots. This is a paid advertisement by BetterHelp . Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/DAILYDAD to get 10% of your first month | https://betterhelp.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, November 02, 2024
Managing Meltdowns and Messes | Ryan and Sam Holiday
The kids are hungry, tired, overstimulated…and you might be too. In this episode, Ryan and Sam talk about handling tantrums, prioritizing your child’s well-being over strangers’ opinions, and the responsibilities of managing children's behavior in public spaces. 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto at ryanholiday.net/tour 💪 Go to livemomentous.com to get up to 32% off your first subscription order or get 15% off all of my favorite products with the code DAILYDAD15 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, November 01, 2024
A Formula For You (And Them)
What’s the formula for parenting? Is there one? KiwiCo | Get up to 50% off your first crate at kiwico.com , promo code DAILYDAD. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, October 31, 2024
This Is What You Want
Jimmy Carter knew that presidency is temporary, but family is forever. 📓 Pick up a signed edition of The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids : store.dailydad.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, October 30, 2024
Ok, But Who Should You Pick?
We talk to our kids a lot about character, about values, we want them to live lives of virtue. But when it comes to choosing who will lead us (and them), are we walking the walk? ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, October 29, 2024
This Is Something That’s Up To You
There’s one way your vote doesn’t matter for sure—and that’s by not exercising it. This is your chance to influence the future, to determine in a small way, the world your children and grandchildren will live in. Register to vote at https://vote.gov KiwiCo | Get up to 50% off your first crate at kiwico.com , promo code DAILYDAD. 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto at ryanholiday.net/tour ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, October 28, 2024
Give Them This Advice
We want our kids to learn some responsibility. To learn the value of hard work. 💪 Go to livemomentous.com to get up to 32% off your first subscription order or get 15% off all of my favorite products with the code DAILYDAD15 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, October 26, 2024
I Took My Son To His First Iron Maiden Concert (PT. 2) | Ryan Holiday
Ryan's first trip (and Iron Maiden concert) with his oldest son is officially in the books. Listen in to hear Ryan's reflections on how it went and the parenting lessons he learned throughout the weekend trip. 💡 The Stoicism 101 2024 LIVE course begins in just TWO days on MONDAY, OCTOBER 28TH. Head here to sign up today: https://dailystoic.com/101 Hiya Health | hiyahealth.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, October 25, 2024
You Need This And They Need This
Philosophy offers meaning, direction, and purpose—it’s not just abstract questions, but real counsel for how to live well. 💡 The Stoicism 101 2024 LIVE course begins in just THREE days on MONDAY, OCTOBER 28TH. Head here to sign up today: https://dailystoic.com/101 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, October 24, 2024
The Games Mean More Than You Think
Our job is not to prevent our kids from playing and learning and having fun. Our job is to help them do those things. 📓 Pick up a signed edition of The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids : store.dailydad.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, October 23, 2024
This Is For Parents, Too
Parenting demands the four Stoic virtues: courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom. It calls for a philosophical mindset, too—being able to see the bigger picture, stay calm in the face of challenges, and know how to respond to life’s unpredictable moments. 💡 We set up Stoicism 101: Ancient Philosophy For Your Actual Life to give you the absolute best of Stoicism, in just 14 days! Sign up for the 2024 Stoicism 101 course here: https://dailystoic.com/101 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, October 22, 2024
Give Them This Time
Each child develops on their own timeline. Each kid has their own journey. 📓 Pick up a signed edition of The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids : store.dailydad.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, October 21, 2024
This Is What They’ll Remember
Will they remember your patience or your temper? Your care or your exasperation? 📚 The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, October 19, 2024
I Took My Son To His First Iron Maiden Concert | Ryan Holiday
Last weekend, Ryan took his oldest on their first father-son trip. Where to? An Iron Maiden concert in California. In this episode, Ryan talks about the trip, from the travel experience to special moments together at the concert. 💪 Go to livemomentous.com to get up to 32% off your first subscription order or get 15% off all of my favorite products with the code DAILYDAD15 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, October 18, 2024
No One Can Do This For You
Every situation, every child, every age is different. You’ll have to figure it out as you go. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, October 17, 2024
This Should Help
We could all get better at apologizing…and shrugging things off. This is a long haul we signed up for. 📚 Check out Joan Didion's books at The Painted Porch 🎥 Watch Joan Didion: Her (Stoic) Life and Legacy (With Evelyn McDonnell) on YouTube 💪 Go to livemomentous.com to get up to 32% off your first subscription order or get 15% off all of my favorite products with the code DAILYDAD15 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, October 16, 2024
Make Sure They Are Reading This Stuff
It’s reading that will make your children great…or not so great. We have to make sure we are exposing them to literature that elevates them, that challenges them, that opens their hearts and minds. 📚 Looking for stories to teach your kids about Stoicism? Check out Ryan Holiday’s books: The Boy Who Would Be King and The Girl Who Would Be Free: A Fable About Epictetus ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, October 15, 2024
You Never Know
We do not know how much time we have. So let’s be kind and sweet, generous and present, while we can. ⏳ Get your own Memento Mori reminder | https://store.dailystoic.com/ 🏛 All time can be quality time. Get your own Tempus Fugit Medallion to remind yourself of this at The Daily Dad Store: https://store.dailydad.com/ ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, October 14, 2024
You Must Forgive
Our job is to help them through life, even if that life is currently a mess of their own making. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, October 12, 2024
Seize Every Moment With Them (While You Can) | David Kessler
David Kessler was well into his career as a grief and loss expert when his own life was turned upside down by the sudden death of his 21 year old son. As parents, we can learn from the people like David who have gone through these horrible things. They can teach us the incredibly painful wisdom that came from it and how it can help us be more present, be better parents, and not take for granted each day we have with our kids. 🎙️ Listen to David Kessler’s FULL interview on the Daily Stoic | Apple Podcasts & Spotify 📕 Grab signed copies of Finding Meaning and the Finding Meaning Workbook by David Kessler at The Painted Porch 📚Books Mentioned: Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther The Road by Cormac McCarthy This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp | https://betterhelp.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, October 11, 2024
It’s Piling Up
It adds up, this time that we turn away. At some point, certainly at the end of our lives but also at the end of their childhood, we would do anything for more of it. 🏛 All time can be quality time. Get your own Tempus Fugit Medallion to remind yourself of this at The Daily Dad Store: https://store.dailydad.com/ ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, October 10, 2024
They’ve Always Been Like That
We like to think kids these days are particularly spoiled or empowered, but the truth is, it’s always been this way. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, October 09, 2024
These Are Your Priorities
Why on earth don’t we all instinctively spend our money in a way that allows us to spend more time with the people we love? ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, October 08, 2024
What They’ll Remember Is This
In moments of anxiety, it’s hard to remember we have power over this all-encompassing reaction. It's even harder to remember the little eyes watching you, learning from you. 🪙 We are the creators of our anxiety. Which means we can also be the ones to do something about it. Gain a powerful tool in your fight against anxiety and get the Daily Stoic Anxiety Coin today! https://store.dailystoic.com/ This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp | https://betterhelp.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, October 07, 2024
They Can’t Help It
We have to remember that no matter how high the stakes may feel, our kids are just being kids. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, October 05, 2024
A Few of Our Favorite Things | Ryan and Sam Holiday
Whether it's wishing they bought certain products earlier on in parenthood or kicking themselves for holding onto other items too long, Ryan and Sam hope they can save you some time and money with these recommendations. Check out what Ryan and Sam are loving for the kids (this is not sponsored) : Veer Wagon Frank Green water bottles Greeking Out Podcast 📚 Grab a copy of Die With Zero by Bill Perkins | https://www.thepaintedporch.com/ 🎙️Listen to Bill Perkin’s interview | Apple Podcasts , Spotify, & Wondery KiwiCo | Get up to 50% off your first crate at kiwico.com , promo code DAILYDAD. 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto at ryanholiday.net/tour ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, October 04, 2024
Why Go Through The Whole Routine?
As parents, we can get better at picking our moments. Not everything needs to be a battle. 📚 Pick up a copy of The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, October 03, 2024
Help Them Find Whose Children They Are
They are them. And you’re going to help them become the best version of that possible. 📓 Pick up a signed edition of The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids : store.dailydad.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, October 02, 2024
You’re The Weird One
Don’t be weird. Be there for them. 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto at ryanholiday.net/tour ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, October 01, 2024
Challenge Them Like This
You can’t just want tough kids. You have to make tough kids. 💡 The Stoic Parent: 10 Commandments for Becoming a Better Parent | Take the first step today by committing the next 2 weeks to becoming the best possible parent you can be! Get The Stoic Parent: 10 Commandments for Becoming a Better Parent & all other Daily Stoic courses for FREE when you join Daily Stoic Life | dailystoic.com/life KiwiCo | Get up to 50% off your first crate at kiwico.com , promo code DAILYDAD. 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto at ryanholiday.net/tour ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, September 30, 2024
This Part Is Your Fault
As parents, our job is to help them learn how to do the hardest but most important thing in the world: To deal with frustrations and our limitations. 📚 Pick up a copy of The Tree of Man by Patrick White 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto at ryanholiday.net/tour ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, September 28, 2024
See It from an Angle of Appreciation | Timm Chiusano
When they mess up or do things they’re not supposed to do, do as Epictetus says and grab the situation by the other handle. What they did may seem nonsensical to us as parents, but to them it made perfect sense. Timm Chiusano and Ryan talk about looking at these moments with their kids through the lens of curiosity, awareness, and appreciation. 🎙️Listen to Timm’s interview on the Daily Stoic | Apple Podcasts & Spotify 🎥 Watch Timm and Ryan’s conversation on YouTube You can follow Timm on TikTok and Instagram @ timmchiusano Subscribe to Timm’s content on YouTube @TimmChiusano77 Check out Timm’s podcast LONG WINDED BY NATURE Hiya Health | hiyahealth.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, September 27, 2024
What Would You Give Then?
No matter how loud, how messy, how onerous it may seem. We have it now, as loud and messy and exhausting as it is . Enjoy it. 📚 Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason at The Painted Porch https://www.thepaintedporch.com/ 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto at ryanholiday.net/tour ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, September 26, 2024
They Need You (And You Need Them)
A world where people are indifferent to the fates of people different from them is a dangerous world to send your kid out into. Our fate—our kids—are all tied up with each other. 💤 Beam’s Dream is clinically shown to improve sleep! | Go to https://shopbeam.com/DAILYDAD and use code DAILYDAD to shop our exclusive discount and get up to 40% off ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, September 25, 2024
Which Would You Rather Be?
Who would you rather be? Imperious and impossible to please? Or fun and proud and loving? 📓 Pick up a signed edition of The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids : store.dailydad.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, September 24, 2024
Why Does Anyone Care?
You’re going to feel bad that you were so hard on them. Love them. Support them. Accept them. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, September 23, 2024
Show Them This Strength
Just like the saying goes: you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. In the same way, you only receive the help that you ask for. 📚 Grab a copy of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy 🎙️Listen to Charlie Mackesy’s episode on the Daily Stoic | Apple Podcasts & Spotify 💤 Beam’s Dream is clinically shown to improve sleep! | Go to https://shopbeam.com/DAILYDAD and use code DAILYDAD to shop our exclusive discount and get up to 40% off ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, September 21, 2024
Don't Forget to Stick to the Facts
Reminder to all parents: stick to the facts and stop catastrophizing. It's a universal problem parents have had throughout history, Marcus Aurelius and Abraham Lincoln included. Pause, take a step back, and see things as they are without anxiety clouding your perspective. 📓 Grab your own leather bound signed edition of The Daily Stoic! Check it out at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/ 💪 Go to livemomentous.com to get up to 32% off your first subscription order or get 15% off all of my favorite products with the code DAILYDAD15 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, September 20, 2024
Don’t Cut It Short (If You Don’t Have To)
Of course, sometimes we have to cut family time short. But most of the time? It’s not necessity that motivates us. 🏛 All time can be quality time. Get your own Tempus Fugit Medallion to remind yourself of this at The Daily Dad Store: https://store.dailydad.com/ 🪙 Designed with the intention of carrying them in your pocket, our Memento Mori Medallion is a literal and inescapable reminder that “you could leave life right now.” Check it out at https://store.dailystoic.com/ ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, September 19, 2024
Don’t Let Them Tell You This
By being disciplined and protective of your personal life, you are being protective and dedicated to your professional life. 🏛 All time can be quality time. Get your own Tempus Fugit Medallion to remind yourself of this at The Daily Dad Store: https://store.dailydad.com/ 📕 Discipline is Destiny by Ryan Holiday ☕ TRADE Coffee | Get your first bag free when you subscribe! Visit drinktrade.com/DAILYDAD 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto at ryanholiday.net/tour ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, September 18, 2024
What’s In Your Greatest Hits?
If someone was to put together a ‘greatest hits’ from you, what do you think would show up? 💪 Go to livemomentous.com to get up to 32% off your first subscription order or get 15% off all of my favorite products with the code DAILYDAD15 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, September 17, 2024
This Is How To Explain Things
We don’t like it when people tell us the point, we like it when they show us. 📚 Looking for stories to teach your kids about Stoicism? Check out Ryan Holiday’s books: The Boy Who Would Be King and The Girl Who Would Be Free: A Fable About Epictetus ☕ TRADE Coffee | Get your first bag free when you subscribe! Visit drinktrade.com/DAILYDAD 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto at ryanholiday.net/tour ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, September 16, 2024
It’s Brave Of Them
We have to want them to be themselves. We want them to be brave enough to be themselves. 📓 Pick up a signed edition of The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids : store.dailydad.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, September 14, 2024
What Works For One Kid May Not Work For The Other | Ryan and Sam Holiday
Two kids mean two different personalities, which also means two different parenting styles. Ryan and Sam talk about how they've had to tailor their parenting to their kids' personalities, parts of themselves they see reflected in their kids, and memories of growing up as an extrovert and an introvert. 📚 Pick up a copy of Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg at The Painted Porch: https://www.thepaintedporch.com/ ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, September 13, 2024
What Will You Do With 72 Seasons?
Eighteen years. That’s 72 seasons. It might seem like a lot, but in the grand scheme of things, it’s not. 🏛 All time can be quality time. Get your own Tempus Fugit Medallion to remind yourself of this at The Daily Dad Store: https://store.dailydad.com/ 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto at ryanholiday.net/tour 🩺 Get a Medical Emergency Kit for your family: TWC.health/dailydad Use promo code DAILYDAD for 15% off! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, September 12, 2024
You Never Know
None of us know how much time we have. None of us know when the last time will be. Don’t rush through this wonderful time. 💪 Go to livemomentous.com to get up to 32% off your first subscription order or get 15% off all of my favorite products with the code DAILYDAD15 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, September 11, 2024
Say It While You Can
Right now, in this moment, you’re not on a plane that’s about to crash. You know that you have the power and capacity to speak your piece. Do it while you still can. 🩺 Get a Medical Emergency Kit for your family: TWC.health/dailydad Use promo code DAILYDAD for 15% off! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, September 10, 2024
When The World Caves In…
The end of the world is a terrible thought to consider but also very clarifying. Because it reminds us once again of how silly the distinction of “quality time” really is. In the light of real tragedy, even the most mundane and ordinary things can become meaningful and wonderful. 🎶 Lyrics mentioned are from As The World Caves In by Matt Maltese 🏛 All time can be quality time. Get your own Tempus Fugit Medallion to remind yourself of this at The Daily Dad Store: store.dailydad.com/ 💪 Go to livemomentous.com to get up to 32% off your first subscription order or get 15% off all of my favorite products with the code DAILYDAD15 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, September 09, 2024
You Do It Too, You Know
The most important thing we can teach our kids in life is how to deal with frustration. Our lives would be better if someone had taught us better, that’s for sure. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, September 07, 2024
Parenting Wake-Up Calls That Reveal Our Inner Child | Patrick Dempsey
Patrick Dempsey talks to Ryan about a parenting wake-up call he had that motivated him to do the work around healing his inner child. Patrick Dempsey is an actor, race car driver, and founder of the Dempsey Center. He is most known from his role as Derek "McDreamy" Shepherd from the series Grey’s Anatomy. Patrick has also starred in Enchanted , Sweet Home Alabama , Transformers: Dark of the Moon , Made of Honor, The Art of Racing in the Rain , Ferrari , and more. 🎙️ Listen to Patrick Dempsey’s full conversation with Ryan: Part 1: How Patrick Dempsey Applies Stoicism in Acting and Race Car Driving | Apple Podcasts , Spotify, & Wondery Part 2: Patrick Dempsey on Ethical Dilemmas, Being of Service, and Embracing Stoicism | Apple Podcasts , Spotify, & Wondery 🎥 Watch Patrick Dempsey’s full interview on YouTube ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, September 06, 2024
You’ll Get What You Want (Just Not When You Want It)
The thing you say you want, the connection you crave. It’s there. Just not always when you want it…or how you want it. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, September 05, 2024
This Is Your Role
You don’t need to understand it. You need to encourage them. You need to be behind them as they discover who they are. 📓 Pick up a signed edition of The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids : store.dailydad.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, September 04, 2024
What Do They Hear Most?
What do you think your kids hear most from you? Is it words of affection and kindness and encouragement? Or is it those phrases we find ourselves repeating like broken records? This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp | https://betterhelp.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, September 03, 2024
Be Patient With Yourself
They’re not doing this to you on purpose. Please be kind. Be patient. Be accommodating. With them…but most of all with yourself. 📚 Grab a copy of Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason | https://www.thepaintedporch.com/ ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, September 02, 2024
Stop Checking Your Watch
Be present. Appreciate the moment. Stop checking your watch. 🏛 All time can be quality time. Get your own Tempus Fugit Medallion to remind yourself of this at The Daily Dad Store: https://store.dailydad.com/ This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp | https://betterhelp.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, August 31, 2024
Raise Adults, Not Kids | Gary Vee
Last year, Ryan was interviewed by Gary Vee about The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids. Today, you'll hear an excerpt from that interview on how to successfully instill discipline in kids. Gary Vee is a serial entrepreneur, Chairman of VaynerX, the CEO of VaynerMedia, and the Creator and CEO of VeeFriends. His latest project is a children's book, Meet Me in the Middle: A VeeFriends Book ! 📓 Pick up a signed edition of The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids : store.dailydad.com 📚 Grab your own copy of Meet Me in the Middle: A VeeFriends Book 🎙️ Listen to Gary Vee’s FULL interview on the Daily Stoic podcast | Apple Podcasts , Spotify , & Wondery 🎥 Tune into Ryan’s interview on the GaryVee Audio Experience : Unpacking the Secrets of Successful Parenting with Ryan Holiday Connect with Gary Vee on Instagram , X , YouTube , TikTok : @GaryVee ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, August 30, 2024
Be A Real Fan
We have to believe in our kids. To be their fan. Why would they be brave enough to put themselves out there, to try new things, if their own parents aren’t even backing them up when it matters most? 💤 Beam’s Dream is clinically shown to improve sleep! | Go to https://shopbeam.com/DAILYDAD and use code DAILYDAD to shop our exclusive discount and get up to 40% off ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, August 29, 2024
Maybe It’s You
Have you tried taking your own temperature? Don’t blame them. Check yourself first. Take care of yourself first. ☕ TRADE Coffee | Get your first bag free when you subscribe! Visit drinktrade.com/DAILYDAD 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto at ryanholiday.net/tour ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, August 28, 2024
It Was You Who Did This
They expect our protection. Nothing is more shocking and devastating than when they don’t get this. They won’t remember the context, what will stick with them is who did this. 🗞️ Check out the Daily Dad article on When You Have To Do Better 💤 Beam’s Dream is clinically shown to improve sleep! | Go to https://shopbeam.com/DAILYDAD and use code DAILYDAD to shop our exclusive discount and get up to 40% off 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto at ryanholiday.net/tour ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, August 27, 2024
This Is A Secret To Wisdom (And Greatness)
It’s from stories that we learn the timeless lessons of the human experience. It’s from stories that we can give our children an education in the school of life. 📚 Looking for stories to teach your kids about Stoicism? Check out: The Boy Who Would Be King and The Girl Who Would Be Free: A Fable About Epictetus Hiya Health | hiyahealth.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, August 26, 2024
Buckle Up, It’s Coming
After a long and peaceful summer, every family careens into the school year. Enjoy it, because the chaos is wonderful. ☕ TRADE Coffee | Get your first bag free when you subscribe! Visit drinktrade.com/DAILYDAD 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto at ryanholiday.net/tour ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, August 24, 2024
Spend Time In The Car Wisely | Ryan and Sam Holiday
Spending time in the car with your kids is rich with opportunities to create connection, even if it means just listening to their music. Ryan and Sam talk about how they are finding ways to bond with the kids during the commute to school, allowing silence during shared activities, and generational differences when it comes to asking about kids interests. 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto at ryanholiday.net/tour ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, August 23, 2024
Don’t Do This Alone
Parenting is so hard to do alone, so hard . We are stronger when we, our children’s parents, parent together. We go further, together. 📚 Grab a copy of The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem by Julie Phillips | https://www.thepaintedporch.com/ 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto at ryanholiday.net/tour ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, August 22, 2024
You’re A Bigger Target Now
Life has something over us now. We have something to worry over. Something we love more than life itself. 📚 Pick up a copy of Blue Nights by Joan Didion at The Painted Porch: https://www.thepaintedporch.com 🏛 All time can be quality time. Get your own Tempus Fugit Medallion to remind yourself of this at The Daily Dad Store: store.dailydad.com/ 💪 Go to livemomentous.com to get up to 32% off your first subscription order or get 15% off all of my favorite products with the code DAILYDAD15 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, August 21, 2024
This Is Too Wonderful To Ignore
What we want is connection, right? So don’t turn it away. Take the hand when it’s offered. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, August 20, 2024
This Is All It Takes
We have to figure out how to be a fan. We have to figure out how not to stifle. 📓 Pick up a signed edition of The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids : store.dailydad.com 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto at ryanholiday.net/tour ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, August 19, 2024
Try To Consider This
Give them the benefit of the doubt. If you’re going to assume anything, assume facts not in evidence. Give them a break. 💪 Go to livemomentous.com to get up to 32% off your first subscription order or get 15% off all of my favorite products with the code DAILYDAD15 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, August 17, 2024
Spoil Them The Right Way | Katy Milkman
Katy Milkman and Ryan talk about encouraging curiosity as a parent, embracing their kids interests, and when it is okay to spoil them. Katy Milkman is a Behavioral Scientist, Wharton Professor, and Co-Director of the Behavior Change for Good Initiative. She is the Author of How to Change and podcast host of Choicology . You can connect with Katy on X: @katy_milkman and on Instagram : @katymilkman 🎙️Listen to Katy Milkman’s full episode | Spotify , Apple , Wondery ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, August 16, 2024
It Has Stolen So Much From You
Anxiety. It makes you a less vigilant parent in many ways—you’re so busy thinking about what might happen that you don’t always see what is happening. To better keep all that in mind, the team over at the Daily Stoic created the Anxiety Coin for you to carry around wherever you go and use as a tool whenever anxiety strikes. Grab your own Anxiety Coin at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/ ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, August 15, 2024
This Is All There Is
Parenting is a grind. It’s exhausting. It also goes by very, very fast. 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto at ryanholiday.net/tour 👟 To learn more about the kid's Mach 6 shoe, visit www.hoka.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, August 14, 2024
We All Have Something Like This
Even if our kids are perfectly healthy, they all have their own issues. Whatever it is, it hasn’t changed how much we loved them. 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto at ryanholiday.net/tour 👟 To learn more about the kid's Mach 6 shoe, visit www.hoka.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, August 13, 2024
We Will Be Fine
Things are going to go wrong. It’s a chance to show them that everything is going to be fine. Because you’re going to make sure it’s fine. 🎙️ Learn from Evelyn McDonnell on how staying calm can be contagious and preparing for emergencies as a parent | Apple Podcasts , Spotify, & Wondery 👟 To learn more about the kid's Mach 6 shoe, visit www.hoka.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, August 12, 2024
Even the Powerful Are Powerless
It doesn’t matter how powerful you are. All of us, now that we have kids, are vulnerable. 👟 To learn more about the kid's Mach 6 shoe, visit www.hoka.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, August 10, 2024
Teaching Kids Gratitude and Presence | Ryan and Sam Holiday
While juggling the many responsibilities that come with being a parent, it's easy to fall into the trap of treating each day as a checklist to get through. In today's episode, Ryan and Sam are talking about what has been helpful for them to stay present, practice mindfulness, express gratitude, and how they are instilling these practices in their kids. 🩺 Get a Medical Emergency Kit for your family: TWC.health/dailydad Use promo code DAILYDAD for 15% off! 💪 Go to livemomentous.com to get up to 32% off your first subscription order or get 15% off all of my favorite products with the code DAILYDAD15 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, August 09, 2024
Say It While You Can
You have the power and capacity to speak your piece. Do it while you still can, while you still get to. 🏛 All time can be quality time. Get your own Tempus Fugit Medallion to remind yourself of this at The Daily Dad Store: https://store.dailydad.com/ This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp - Get 10% of your first month at https://betterhelp.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, August 08, 2024
Who Are You Keeping This For?
Don’t keep it to yourself. Don’t wait. Give it to them now. 💪 Go to livemomentous.com to get up to 32% off your first subscription order or get 15% off all of my favorite products with the code DAILYDAD15 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, August 07, 2024
This Is Our Wonderful Weakness
Our children are our wonderful weakness…and our incredible strength. 📓 Pick up a signed edition of The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids : store.dailydad.com 🩺 Get a Medical Emergency Kit for your family: TWC.health/dailydad Use promo code DAILYDAD for 15% off! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, August 06, 2024
It’s Tough But You Gotta Show Them
This is what is most important. This sense of justice, this sense of fairness. It’s important that we don't just talk about these things, but we live them. We do them even when it's hard. 📕 Read more stories that will inspire you to live with justice in Right Thing, Right Now | https://store.dailystoic.com/ This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp - Get 10% of your first month at https://betterhelp.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, August 05, 2024
Make Them Very Lucky
There is one way we can make our kids very, very lucky - at least right now. 🎶 Lyrics mentioned are from Quiet Town by The Killers Hiya Health | hiyahealth.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, August 03, 2024
The Current Parenting Pandemic | Gary Vee
Gary Vee is a serial entrepreneur, Chairman of VaynerX, the CEO of VaynerMedia, and the Creator and CEO of VeeFriends. His latest project is a children's book, Meet Me in the Middle: A VeeFriends Book ! The book uses a unique, two-in-one, flip-the-book-around format that encourages young readers (and their parents) to see how different the world looks from another point of view. Based on two VeeFriends characters, Eager Eagle and Patient Pig, it is a fun and engaging story about how real success comes from seeing how the other side does it. 📚 Grab your own copy of Meet Me in the Middle: A VeeFriends Book 🎙️ Listen to Gary Vee’s FULL interview on the Daily Stoic podcast | Apple Podcasts , Spotify , & Wondery 🎥 Tune into Ryan’s interview on the GaryVee Audio Experience : Unpacking the Secrets of Successful Parenting with Ryan Holiday Connect with Gary Vee on Instagram , X , YouTube , TikTok : @GaryVee 👟 To learn more about the kid's Mach 6 shoe, visit www.hoka.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, August 02, 2024
Don’t Feel Guilty
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Thu, August 01, 2024
This Is All You Have To Do
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Wed, July 31, 2024
What Are They Seeing From You?
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Tue, July 30, 2024
They Want To Connect
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Mon, July 29, 2024
This Is What Keeps Us Going
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Sat, July 27, 2024
Turning Garbage Time Into Quality Time
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Fri, July 26, 2024
Who Are They Learning From?
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Thu, July 25, 2024
Do It Now
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Wed, July 24, 2024
What A Great Idea
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Tue, July 23, 2024
You Cannot Wait
📚 Pick up a copy of Essays by Michel de Montaigne at The Painted Porch 📕 Learn more about Michel de Montaigne’s life in Sarah Bakewell’s biography of him, How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer carried at The Painted Porch 👟 To learn more about the kid's Mach 6 shoe, visit www.hoka.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, July 22, 2024
We’re Not Balanced Right
📚 Pick up a copy of Die with Zero by Bill Perkins at The Painted Porch 🏛 All time can be quality time. Get your own Tempus Fugit Medallion to remind yourself of this at The Daily Dad Store: https://store.dailydad.com/ 👟 To learn more about the kid's Mach 6 shoe, visit www.hoka.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, July 20, 2024
How to Teach Your Kids About Ancient Philosophy
📚 Looking for stories to teach your kids about Stoicism? Check out Ryan Holiday’s books: The Boy Who Would Be King and The Girl Who Would Be Free: A Fable About Epictetus 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets at ryanholiday.net/tour 🩺 Get a Medical Emergency Kit for your family: TWC.health/dailydad Use promo code DAILYDAD for 15% off! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, July 19, 2024
Don’t Put This Off
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Thu, July 18, 2024
Let Them Teach You This
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Wed, July 17, 2024
This Is All They Want
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Tue, July 16, 2024
This Is Something You’ll Regret
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Mon, July 15, 2024
Why You Have To Do Better
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Sat, July 13, 2024
Is It Best For Them, Or Best For You? | Ryan and Sam Holiday
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Fri, July 12, 2024
Instill This Spirit In Them
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Thu, July 11, 2024
It’s A Bad Calculation
💡 Take the first step towards a calmer future by checking out our course: Taming Your Temper: The 11 Day Stoic Guide to Controlling Your Anger over at the Daily Stoic: https://dailystoic.com/anger 👟 To learn more about the kid's Mach 6 shoe, visit www.hoka.com 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets at ryanholiday.net/tour ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, July 10, 2024
What’s Keeping You From It?
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Tue, July 09, 2024
It’s Not That Hard
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Mon, July 08, 2024
You’re Depriving Them of This
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Sat, July 06, 2024
A Cautionary Tale: Tiger Woods' Childhood
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Fri, July 05, 2024
Can You Teach Them This?
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Thu, July 04, 2024
This Is Why They Love Them
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Wed, July 03, 2024
When Do You See Your Kids?
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Tue, July 02, 2024
It Costs What It Costs
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Mon, July 01, 2024
This Is The Point
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Sat, June 29, 2024
Embracing The Unexpected | Ryan and Sam Holiday
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Fri, June 28, 2024
This Is Freeing And Humbling
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Thu, June 27, 2024
If You’re Going to Spoil Them, Do It Here
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Wed, June 26, 2024
Why Do We Put Them First?
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Tue, June 25, 2024
Please, Please Don’t Do This
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Mon, June 24, 2024
What Do They Really Want?
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Sat, June 22, 2024
Balancing Urgency and Patience | Topaz Adizes
🎙️Listen to Topaz Adizes’s interview on The Daily Stoic | Wondery , Spotify , & Apple Podcasts 🎥 Check out Topaz’s YouTube Channel: @TheSkinDeep Check out Topaz’s card game aimed to help you connect deeper as a family: head here Follow Topaz: X and IG : @topazadizes Hiya Health | hiyahealth.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, June 21, 2024
It’s All Part Of The Process
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Thu, June 20, 2024
You Do What You Gotta Do
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Wed, June 19, 2024
The Trip Is Part of The Trip
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Tue, June 18, 2024
All Parents Can Meet This Standard
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Mon, June 17, 2024
Value This More Than That
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Sat, June 15, 2024
Happy Father's Day Weekend! | Fatherly Advice From Top Athletes And Coaches
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Fri, June 14, 2024
How Would You Feel?
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Thu, June 13, 2024
It’s Not Fair That We Do This
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Wed, June 12, 2024
It’s a Tough Choice
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Tue, June 11, 2024
Don’t Destroy This
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Mon, June 10, 2024
It’s Not An Excuse
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Sat, June 08, 2024
How To Be More Present With Your Kids | Dr. Michael Gervais’ Parenting Wake Up Call
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Fri, June 07, 2024
It’s An Opportunity To Show Them This
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Thu, June 06, 2024
Hold Up This Kind of Person
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Wed, June 05, 2024
Remember The True Value of This
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Tue, June 04, 2024
They’ll Resent You For This
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Mon, June 03, 2024
Send Them This Message
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Sat, June 01, 2024
Feeling Guilty as a Parent | Ryan and Sam Holiday
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Fri, May 31, 2024
Work With Them To Find Their Lane
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Thu, May 30, 2024
There Are Limits
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Wed, May 29, 2024
Those Things Don’t Matter
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Tue, May 28, 2024
This Is What We’re Here For
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Mon, May 27, 2024
A Wonderful Way To Think About It
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Sat, May 25, 2024
School's Out For Summer | Ryan and Sam Holiday
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Fri, May 24, 2024
What Our Kids Need To Hear
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Thu, May 23, 2024
Can You Do This Right?
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Wed, May 22, 2024
But Do You Really Care?
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Tue, May 21, 2024
Wish This Into Existence For Them
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Mon, May 20, 2024
How Would You Like Them To Describe You?
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Sat, May 18, 2024
10 Stoic Parenting Tips | Tom Segura's Parenting Reflections
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Fri, May 17, 2024
It’s Ok To Have Conditions
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Thu, May 16, 2024
You Can Do This
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Wed, May 15, 2024
It’s Simple (But Also Out of Their Hands)
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Tue, May 14, 2024
It Works, Just Not How You Think
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Mon, May 13, 2024
This is Out To Get Them
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Sat, May 11, 2024
Create Your Own Parenting Legacy | Adrian Grenier
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Fri, May 10, 2024
You Can’t Get Around This Math
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Thu, May 09, 2024
The Important Thing Is That You Do This
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Wed, May 08, 2024
What Would You Do More Of?
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Tue, May 07, 2024
This Is Your Main Job
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Mon, May 06, 2024
This is All Temporary
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Sun, May 05, 2024
Joan Didion's Parenting Strategies | Ryan Holiday & Evelyn McDonnell
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Fri, May 03, 2024
Show Them, Don’t Tell Them
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Fri, May 03, 2024
You Were Built For This
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Wed, May 01, 2024
The Important Thing Is That You Do This
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Tue, April 30, 2024
Anything Less Than Nurturing
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Mon, April 29, 2024
It’s A Lot To Be a Kid Nowadays
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Sat, April 27, 2024
Your Family Routine Is Crucial | Ryan and Sam Holiday
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Fri, April 26, 2024
You Find a Way To Help Them Learn
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Thu, April 25, 2024
Have You Given Them The Right Priorities?
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Wed, April 24, 2024
Hold Fast To This
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Tue, April 23, 2024
What Are You Actually Teaching Them?
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Mon, April 22, 2024
They Don't Know
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Sat, April 20, 2024
How To Make Decisions As A Parent (With Stoicism) | Mike Erwin
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Fri, April 19, 2024
Teach This To Your Kids
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Thu, April 18, 2024
You Have To Leave This To Them
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Wed, April 17, 2024
Can You Do This?
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Tue, April 16, 2024
This is Out To Get Them
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Mon, April 15, 2024
How Many Are Left?
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Sat, April 13, 2024
Getting Your Kids To Put Their Shoes On | Ryan and Sam Holiday
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Fri, April 12, 2024
You Must Seed This Habit
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Thu, April 11, 2024
Are You Building This?
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Wed, April 10, 2024
You Have to Give Them Access
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Tue, April 09, 2024
You’re Not Trying To Raise Well-Behaved Kids
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Mon, April 08, 2024
Never Wish For Less Time
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Sat, April 06, 2024
Morgan Housel and Ryan Holiday on Raising Well Adjusted Children And Being Prepared
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Fri, April 05, 2024
These Are The Best Times
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Thu, April 04, 2024
Try Not To Be This
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Wed, April 03, 2024
This Is A Form of Real Poverty
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Tue, April 02, 2024
What If You Didn’t Hear It Again?
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Mon, April 01, 2024
How To Repair
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Sat, March 30, 2024
Stop Creating Unnecessary Tension As A Parent
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Fri, March 29, 2024
Kids See Through to What Matters
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Thu, March 28, 2024
This is the Most Important Skill To Give Them
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Wed, March 27, 2024
Another Way It’s Tough To Be Your Kid
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Tue, March 26, 2024
You’re Probably Better Than You Think
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Mon, March 25, 2024
This Is How They Feel
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Sat, March 23, 2024
Ryan and Sam Holiday on Advice For First Time Parents
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Fri, March 22, 2024
You Don’t Even Realize How Much You Say It
So why on earth do we so often signal the opposite? Literally and figuratively, we send the message that they’re bothering us, that they’re a distraction, a burden, annoying. As Evelyn McDonnell writes in her fascinating book The World According to Joan Didion , Didion’s daughter Quintana Roo once wrote down a list of her mother’s sayings. They were: “Brush your teeth,” “Brush your hair,” and “Shush, I'm working.” Only later do we realize what we’re saying to them—as Didion did tragically in her haunting book Blue Nights —how this hurt them, how it contradicted what we felt deep down inside. We were just busy in that moment! We just needed to finish something real quick! We didn’t mean anything by it! Of course, we have to make a living. Sometimes we do have to finish things. Some things are important. We just have to make sure that we value what really is important, that we remember, as we say in the March 22nd entry in The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids , our kids aren’t a distraction from our work, they are our work. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, March 21, 2024
Learning is Frustrating
Being a kid is tough. It’s tough because they’re learning— often by painful trial and error —an endless number of lessons about life. What they’re allowed to do and not. What happens when you touch something hot. How other people act . What feels good and what doesn’t. Plus they’re also in school learning academic knowledge too—math and science and reading and history. Well, here’s a piece of advice from the great Dr. Becky (from her amazing book Good Inside ) that we can translate to our kids, but also to ourselves: Things are tough, things are frustrating because we’re learning , we as parents, them as kids. It’s fun to learn but it’s also exhausting. It’s supposed to be this way, just as lifting weights is supposed to make you sore. It’s the price you pay to get the thing you want—which is to learn, to be smart, to be capable, to get the hang of this life thing. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, March 20, 2024
You’re Not Trying To Raise Well-Behaved Kids
We have so many things we need to do as parents. There’s the logistics of it. The survival aspect of it (food and shelter). There’s the education we have to give them . There’s the experiences we want them to have. There’s the values and character we know need to be instilled . We’re not trying to raise well-behaved kids. **As we’ve said before, we’re not trying to raise kids at all. The whole point of parenting is to raise our kids into adults, it’s trying to raise these little people into good human beings. Of course, behavior matters but it’s not the end all be all. Tantrums aren’t great. Kids are sometimes going to be crazy. But as parents we need to remember that our primary job is teaching our kids how to manage and regulate their emotions and urges —it’s not to stamp them out because they embarrass us. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, March 19, 2024
A Much Better Way To Motivate
It’s important that we look for examples of people who have done great things as a result of their parent’s ability to believe in them, support them, and make them feel secure. We’ve talked about Jim Valvano many times here and tell the story in Daily Dad about how his dad packed his bags and told his son he was ready to watch him coach in the Final Four. We posted a great video of the comedian Andrew Schultz recently. Andrew told his father that his dream was to perform at Madison Square Gardens someday. Everyone else laughed or dismissed it. His father just looked at him and said, “I can see it.” We think this idea—that you have to be your kids’ biggest supporter—is so important that in The Daily Dad book, the entire month of August is on the theme. The month of August in The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids is titled, “Always Be A Fan”—it is, as we’ve said , the greatest gift you can give your kids. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, March 18, 2024
Tackle This First
“Connection first,” is Dr. Becky’s advice in Good Inside . Connection as opposed to shame, to criticism, to questions, to doubt, to consequences. There will be time for all that (except shame) later. “Now, to be clear,” Dr. Becky writes, “connection does not mean approval…Connection is an opening that allows for movement. Connection is when we show our kids, ‘It’s okay to be you right now. Even when you’re struggling, it’s okay to be you. I am here with you, as you are.’” Let’s start by slowing down. Let’s start by letting them know that this doesn’t change how we feel about them. Let’s start by letting them know that we’re here to help , that we’re on their team. Let’s start by letting them know that we love them (which, as we’ve said , you really cannot ever say too much). Once this is established, then we can get to work. Connection is not at odds with accountability, with learning a lesson , with consequences or even criticism. In fact, it makes the chances of all these things landing even higher. Because they’ll be listening, they’ll be less on guard, they’ll see it not as part of the problem, but part of the solution. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, March 16, 2024
Ryan And Sam Holiday On Raising Well Adjusted Adults Not Well Behaved Children
On this episode of the Daily Dad Podcast, Ryan Holiday and his wife Samantha dive into the nuanced art of raising well-adjusted adults rather than merely well-behaved children. Drawing from their own experiences as parents, they emphasize the importance of fostering independence, resilience, and critical thinking skills in young minds. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, March 15, 2024
This Is The First Step
As Claire Tomalin writes in her book Jane Austen: A Life , we can trace the beginnings of Jane Austen’s greatness to her father’s library. “Their father’s bookshelves were of primary importance in fostering her talent,” she writes, “given that the first impulse to write stories comes from being entertained and excited by other people’s.” And her father had quite a library, **some 500 volumes. It’s a crime, we’ve said, to raise a kid in a house without books . Our job is to surround our kids with great ideas, great writers, great art. We can’t expect it to turn all of them into groundbreaking creatives, but it will have that effect on some of them. In every case though, it will give them windows into other worlds, it will teach them empathy, it will entertain them and teach them lessons about life and human nature. And more than just surrounding them with books, we have to demonstrate what being a reader looks like . Not on our phones, not on audiobooks, but good old fashioned reading. We think this idea—that you have a responsibility to make reading a part of your children’s life—is so important that the month of September in The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids is all about it and titled “Raise A Reader.” It’s 30 days full of stories and lessons in learning, curiosity, and how to raise a reader. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, March 14, 2024
You Have To See What’s Really Going On
All that did happen. It shouldn’t have. It’s not ok that it did. But before you do anything, can you try this? Can you say to yourself, as Dr. Becky writes in Good Inside (a great book!), “Ok, one second. Let me take a breath. Let me see if I understand what’s happening here…” In a sense, can you be a Stoic about it? Can you put your first impressions to the test , as Epictetus tells us, not be overwhelmed by the moment , as Marcus Aurelius said, and see what’s really happening? Because what’s really happening is that they are frustrated after being prodded and provoked by their siblings for days on end. What happened is that they’re overwhelmed by school, and they need help. What happened is that they’re desperate for connection. What happened is that they’re having bigger feelings than they’re equipped to deal with. Talk to them, talk it through . Don’t be distracted by what’s on the surface, what is frustrating or inappropriate, but go to what’s really happening and help them there. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, March 13, 2024
This is The Cure
It doesn’t matter how driven you were. It doesn’t matter how much money is on the table. Having kids humbles you. We said recently that having kids changes you because it brings you up close and personal with something that actually means something and all your other worldly stuff naturally pales somewhat in comparison. As the writer Stephen Marche describes ( he has a great little book on writing and life ), “the physical changes that occasionally transpire with women after birth—eczema disappearing, once intractable allergies going away—have a psychological equivalent. The flesh of little children is the cure for self-importance. Everything matters less. Having children does not necessarily make writing harder, but it makes it a lot harder to pretend that writing matters.” It makes it harder for that business trip to matter. Not when your son is struggling in school. It makes it harder for that big exit for your startup to matter…now that pursuing it has made your spouse contemplate an exit from your marriage (and now you’re staring down the heartbreak of shared custody). You thought it was all so important. You thought you were so important. Click here to check out the new Hoka Mach 6 and the brand new KIDS Mach 6 shoes! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, March 12, 2024
Easy Like Sunday Morning
Why is your house so stressful? Why is everything such a fight? It doesn’t need to be. Sure, school is important. Rules and respect and basic cleanliness matter. But these things aren’t that important. Indeed, most conflicts that pop up while getting ready for school or sitting down to dinner or finishing household tasks aren’t that important. Here’s a magical phrase worth thinking about as a parent. It’s from that great Lionel Richie song (and Faith No More cover ): Easy like Sunday morning… What if more of your days were like that? When you had less you were trying to force through? When you were slightly more relaxed ? If you understood that it was your kids’ day too, that there was nothing that really had to happen? P.S. If you’re looking to avoid falling back into bad habits when stress inevitably announces itself, consider checking out our Daily Stoic Spring Forward challenge . We all think of March as the month we tend to get started on our spring cleaning, but how many of us spend the time to get our whole houses in order? Not just our physical spaces, but our minds, our routines, our assumptions? The challenge is designed to push you to examine those parts of your life, your choices, your relationships, and move you closer to living your best life. Become the person you aspire to be and enroll at dailystoic.com/spring today! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, March 11, 2024
You Don’t Have To Like It, But You Should Try
It had been a long day. He was tired. He just wanted his teenage step-daughter Tegan, from the indie pop duo Tegan and Sara, to stop blasting the same album over and over. Besides, he hated Nirvana, which was just then about the biggest band in the world. So he told her to turn it off. He told her the music was driving him insane. He was well within his rights…up until the point that he made a joke about Kurt Cobain’s sexuality. He should have known better. As Tegan explains in her fascinating book, High School (a must read for any parent with artistic children), she was just then coming to terms with her own identity. She went ballistic at her father. She was inconsolable. It was clearly not about the music at all. Finally, after many apologies, her dad was able to talk to her. She played Nirvana’s Unplugged album for him. A fan of David Bowie, he was surprised by their cover of “The Man Who Sold the World.” ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, March 09, 2024
You Are Your Kids Biggest Fan
On this episode of the Daily Dad podcast, best-selling author and renowned stoic philosopher, Ryan Holiday, shares an insightful and heartwarming story about a profound parenting conversation he had with a driver on his way to the San Diego airport. In this engaging narrative, Holiday reflects on the importance of being your child's biggest fan. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, March 08, 2024
They’re The Only Ones In There
“This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/dailydad and get on your way to being your best self.” Dr. Becky (read Good Inside already!) says she tries to repeat it to get kids as often as possible: “You’re the only one in your body, so only you could know what you like.” She probably repeats it as much for her kid’s benefit as theirs. Because of course, they know what they like . The problem is that we tend to assume that we know better. And how could that be true? We’re not inside them, we’re not the same as them , as much as they sometimes seem like us. As we’ve said before , ‘knowing better’ is a corrosive thing, because it becomes less true over time and it’s hard to turn it off once you’ve internalized the assumption. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, March 07, 2024
They Need You To Do This For Them
There’s a story about Queen Elizabeth, told in Discipline is Destiny . After a long day of travel with her late husband, Prince Philip, the Queen found him worked up and in an argument with someone who was organizing an event. What wouldn’t have worked in that situation with Prince Philip was the Queen coming over and telling him to get control of himself. It wouldn’t have helped for her to come in and pile on or take over the situation either. He was stuck in a loop, and she helped pull him out. While it’s not our job to parent our spouses, this was a wonderful example of fantastic parent energy. When our kids are upset, we can help them with a simple redirect, an interruption, a distraction, we can give them an off-ramp. We can provide calming energy as opposed to amping things up, to adding more tension or stress to a situation by reprimanding them or telling them to shape up. P.S. “Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power,” Seneca said. If you’re looking to gain a little more temperance, for both your sake and your family’s sake, check out Ryan Holiday’s Discipline is Destiny . Developing a practice of discipline not only makes it more likely you’ll be successful, it ensures that whatever happens, you are great, both for yourself and those around you. Grab a copy today ! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, March 06, 2024
Your Future Is What You Make It
In his fantastic book Outlive , Peter Attia ( we carry the book at The Painted Porch and did a fantastic 2-hour interview with him on the Daily Stoic podcast ) looks at this idea literally and figuratively. Will you want to be able to go skiing with your adult children? Will you want to be able to travel to see your grandkids? Will you want to live long enough to maybe get to see them get married or bring you great-grandkids? Just as important as whether these things are physically possible is will you have the kind of relationship that allows for this? Will your kids want to do those things with you? These are the questions you have to be thinking about. Not just thinking about, but making decisions and investments about and in. If you eat whatever you want, let your weight balloon, smoke, drink to excess—it doesn’t matter what dreams you have for your twilight years. You are making a powerful statement in reality about the actual value of those things to you. The same goes for how you balance work and life , whether you have put in the work on your issues, whether you’ve improved at repairing with your kids , whether you support and root for them or whether you judge and criticize them . Again, you can fantasize about family trips when you’re retired, but if, while you’re working, you’re a self-absorbed, miserable jerk— that’s never going to happen. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, March 05, 2024
What Will Your Kids See?
As she writes her memoir Suffragette , these incidents illustrate to her “the fact that the impressions of childhood often have more to do with character and future conduct than heredity or education. I tell it also to show that my development into an advocate of militancy was largely a sympathetic process.” The lesson, which we built the whole first month of The Daily Dad book around, is a simple one: Children learn by example. It doesn’t matter so much what adults tell them, what ideology they try to teach them, what matters is what children see. And that children are far more perceptive than we might think. P.S. “Thou Shall Teach By Example” is the 1st Commandment in The Stoic Parent: 10 Commandments For Becoming A Better Parent . If you want to take your parenting to the next level, or just looking to set a better example as a parent, The Stoic Parent course is 10 days of the most important things that you can do to become the best parent you can be. Sign up today at the Daily Stoic Store ! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, March 04, 2024
The Key To Real Happiness
As we said recently, no parent has ever successfully shielded their child from negative feelings or distress. No parent has done it and no grown adult has ever looked back at their childhood and been grateful that their parents tried. “ I’m so glad Mom and Dad kept me in a bubble of sunshine and kittens, that really set me up now that I’m on my own.” Gaslighting someone about their feelings is not, and never has been, a service. Dr. Becky Kennedy writes In Good Inside, her wonderful book about parenting (can’t recommend it enough), that “adults whose childhood were focused mainly on happiness are not only unprepared for tough moments, they experience more discomfort in those tough moments because deep down, they think they’re doing something wrong if they can’t ‘find the happy’ and get themselves to a ‘better place.’” We’ve talked before about Seneca’s Consolations essays where he works his friends and family through the awful grief they are experiencing. It’s important that we understand this is how the Stoics—and hopefully your kids—learn to deal with strong emotions, period. You don’t stuff it down. You don’t mask it with smiles. You don’t seek out pleasure to counterbalance it. In fact, the more you do those things, the harder time you will have in the future if even more serious or distressing things happen. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, March 02, 2024
Are Your Kids Having Fun?
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad Podcast, Ryan shifts to the basketball court as he attends both of his son's game, unveiling profound lessons about team sports for kids and the essential role of adults in shaping their experiences. Amidst the cheers and competitive spirit, Holiday reflects on the delicate balance required in fostering a positive environment. He observes that, while skill development is crucial, the paramount lesson lies in the importance of having fun. As an engaged parent and spectator, Holiday underscores the significance of adults maintaining perspective, encouraging sportsmanship, and emphasizing the joy of the game over mere victories. This insightful episode serves as a reminder that, ultimately, the true victory in youth sports lies in the smiles, camaraderie, and personal growth experienced by the young athletes on the court. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, March 01, 2024
It’s Part of The Job
Look, we get it: the iPad is a magical device. It can quiet even the craziest kid. It can take them into a world of learning and exploration that is literally miraculous. Best of all, most of this content is free! Books on the other hand are not free and they take up so much space. Lugging them around can be a pain. You’re a grown-ass person. Do you really have to read about why dragons love tacos again? Or what Frodo is going to do with that stupid ring? And read it with the excited tone of a voice-over actor? Yes. The answer is yes. Your house and your life must be filled with books. Good ones. Silly ones. Annoying ones. Used ones. New ones. Reading is part of the job . “A house without books is like a room without windows,” Horace Mann once said . “No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.” ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, February 29, 2024
Deal With It Now
We all have our issues. We had trauma from childhood . We have bad habits we picked up in college. We have scripts we learned, patterns we’ve repeated, coping mechanisms we’ve developed. We prefer not to die with them, to carry them always. But when exactly are we planning on dealing with them? In a perfect world, we would have gotten serious about it before we had kids. In the next best world, we’d deal with them now. “All I know is that as we age the weight of our unsorted baggage becomes heavier,” Bruce Springsteen explains in his spectacular autobiography Born To Run , “…much heavier.” We talked before about his strange and disorienting childhood, which was warped by the grief of his grandparents and their inclination to spoil him, along with the distance and demons of his father. He related that, like a lot of us, “the defenses I built to withstand the stress of my childhood, to save what I had of myself, outlived their usefulness…” When the bill comes due, Springsteen says, the payment is in tears. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, February 28, 2024
Watch What Happens
In her book Good Inside , Dr. Becky Kennedy shares something that a mom wrote to her. “I feel guilty for all those years I punished my daughter and gave time-outs,” the woman wrote. “I always thought, ‘It’s too late, I messed up my kids forever.’” But of course, as we’ve been talking about , it’s never too late—never too late to change, never too late to repair . That mom decided she wasn’t just going to feel guilty, she was going to talk to her kids about it. “I told my 8-year-old that I’ve learned more about what kids need and that I wish I hadn’t given her so many time-outs in the moments she needed me most. I saw her body soften. I really did. We hugged. It felt really important.” Well, we can’t make our parents do that. We can’t change what happened then or in the early days of our own parenting journey. But we’ve learned some stuff since then, we’ve gotten better. And so we can repair. Nothing is messed up forever—not if we choose to be vulnerable enough , loving enough, brave enough to try to address it. We can do that. We must do that. Watch what happens when we do. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, February 27, 2024
You Are Different Now
There’s even an expression (one we’ve rebutted before) about how a stroller in the hall is the enemy of great art . Parenting comes with so many obligations, so many stresses—it is so all-consuming, it can’t help but be a distraction. But the writer Stephen Marche ( who has an amazing little book on writing ), once explained that “Being a writer and being a parent, I have found, are in conflict but not for the reasons most believe—the loss of time, the sleeplessness, the responsibility for another life, the fixedness in place, the need to make money to support them. Having children, like losing your virginity, changes the nature of meaning.” You have seen something, finally gotten something that people tried to tell you but you just couldn’t understand. Happiness is not in achievement, it’s not in stuff, it’s in people— specifically, it’s with these people . It’s in the stillness . The presence is the present, the gift that never gets old. And once you get this, you can still succeed and achieve, to be sure, but you can never go back to how you were before. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, February 26, 2024
It’s Almost Too Painful to See
Only when it’s over will we realize it. Only when it’s all been stripped away will we be able to see. How not present we were. How much we took it for granted. How often we prioritized the wrong thing. How needlessly strict or harsh we were. For Joan Didion, whose beautiful (but haunting) books A Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights , we have been learning from and talking about , this came when she lost her husband and her adult daughter in short order. The books she wrote were about grief sure, but not just grief at what had disappeared but also grief at the unavoidable realizations that came from that loss. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, February 24, 2024
Ryan Holiday And Nathan Barry On Parenting Advice And Applying Stoicism In Our Routine (Part 2)
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks to creator, author, designer, and the founder of ConvertKit Nathan Barry on having kids earlier in their career, their interest in farms and outdoors, the process of Emotional Vaccination and applying stoicism in our parenting routine. IG, and, X, ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, February 23, 2024
We’re In This Together
When we say “our own” we don’t think Americans or whatever country we live in, we think race. Or we think our blood relatives. That’s awful. This system we live in demands that we think of ourselves as more than just parents to our own kids. We have to think generationally. We can’t just think about getting ours, or protecting ours. We have to think like a village , like a group. The Stoics remind us that we are “made for each other.” Marcus Aurelius spoke dozens of times about the “common good.” He didn’t just care about his kids. He cared about everybody’s kids. Because that’s what justice—what doing the right thing—demands of us. It’s better to think of “our kids” as everybody. We’re all in this together, every single parent. We’re all better if we’re doing better, together. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, February 22, 2024
It’s Only Been Given For An Hour
Seneca knew from experience. In one of the most dreadful periods of his life, he lost his livelihood, his home and then his young child. He was exiled on false charges . He buried an infant. Fortune…she can be cruel. As Seneca wrote to Marcia, the daughter of a prominent Roman historian, in his beautiful and moving “ Consolations ” essays: “Snatch the pleasures your children bring, let your children in turn find delight in you, and drain joy to the dregs without delay; no promise has been given you for this night—nay, I have offered too long a respite!—no promise has been given even for this hour.” Two thousand years later, that hard-won reminder holds true. Nothing is promised . The future is not certain. It’s a scary world—one we’re hostages to, as we’ve said. But we can’t dwell in sadness or fear. All we can do is hold our children tight. We must snatch the pleasures they bring us and bring them pleasures too. Drain joy to the dregs together. Enjoy the hour…because not one second more is guaranteed. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, February 21, 2024
It’s Like This For Everyone
We talked about Lincoln recently, who used to bring his “brats” to the office , in the words of William Herndon, Lincoln’s law partner. As much as he hated the noise, Herndon actually seemed to admire Lincoln’s ability to deal with this. “The boys were absolutely unrestrained in their amusement,” he noted. “If they pulled down all the books from the shelves, bent the points of all the pens, overturned inkstands, scattered law papers over the floor or threw the pencils into the spittoon, it never disturbed the serenity of their father’s good nature.” The lesson here is twofold. First off, it’s a reminder that you’re not alone in raising absolute hellions. That’s just what kids are—and they never really stop being them (they find new ways of stirring stuff up when they’re older!). Two, really the only part of this that reflects on you is how you respond to it. If it turns you into a monster, if it makes you mean or nasty or makes you throw a fit in response to their fit? Well that’s the real problem. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, February 20, 2024
You Won’t Be Able To Do This
Nobody likes it when their kids are sad. It breaks our hearts when they feel lonely , ashamed, or frustrated. We’d like to just make this all go away, to protect them from all this, so they can feel happy all the time. But that’s not possible (nor is it, as we’ve talked about, actually a recipe for happiness ). In Good Inside , the great Dr. Becky writes, “I don’t know one adult who has ever said, ‘Wow, my parents really got all those uncomfortable feelings out of me! The disappointment and frustration and envy…they convinced them all out of me! They successfully distracted me so much that now, as an adult, I never feel these things! I am happy all the time!’” You can’t— just as your parents couldn’t —tell them to stuff their feelings down. You can’t gaslight them into thinking the negative feelings aren’t there. You can’t make life so wonderful and fun that they’re never sad or angry or jealous or frustrated. We can’t do it. We shouldn’t try to do it. Instead, we have to try to raise and cultivate kids who know how to deal with those feelings. We can teach them how to deal with frustration . We can inform them that, sadly, frustration is an inevitable part of life—that things don’t always work out, that stuff breaks, that obstacles arise . We can empower them to understand their feelings, to be aware of them, to process them, to find healthy outlets for them. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, February 19, 2024
You Gotta Cut Them Some Slack
It’s hard to be a kid , as we’ve said many times. It’s hard to make transitions between worlds . It’s hard to come home after a long day of behaving and not misbehave. They want personal space. They want some freedom. What they need is some empathy and understanding . You want and need these things and you’re an adult who has a lot more practice, has a lot more resources and a lot more maturity. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, February 17, 2024
Ryan Holiday And Austin Kleon On Maintaining Healthy Habits & Growing As Parents (Daily Dad Book Tour Pt 2)
Ryan speaks with his longtime friend fellow father Austin Kleon during a stop along his book tour for The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids . They discuss the life habits that they maintain in order to help fuel their creative success, why the most effective form of parenting is indirect, what parenting skills they are working on right now, how adopting a daily journaling habit vastly improved their lives, and more. Austin Kleon is a writer, author, artist, speaker, and blogger whose work focuses on creativity in the modern world. Although he is most known for his five New York Times bestselling books Steal Like An Artist:10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative , Show Your Work! , Keep Going , Steal Like An Artist Journal , and Newspaper Blackout , Austin has spoken for organizations such as Pixar, Google, SXSW, TEDx , and The Economist . He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and sons. You can follow his work at austinkleon.com , Instagram @austinkleon , and Twitter @austinkleon . You can listen to a few of Austin’s other appearances on The Daily Stoic YouTube channel: Ryan Holiday & Austin Kleon Discuss Stoicism, Creativity, Journaling & More Ryan Holiday and Austin Kleon On How To Increase Creativity With Stoicism ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, February 16, 2024
You Can Be A Parent Anywhere
When we think teacher, we think classroom. When we think leader, we think the corner office or the lectern or a general in front of their troops. But the truth is that a teacher can do their job anywhere and in many forms, just as a leader can. Plutarch would say of Socrates that he “did not set up desks for his students, sit in a teacher’s chair, or reserve a prearranged time for lecturing and walking with his pupils. No, he practiced philosophy while joking around (when the chance arose) and drinking and serving on military campaigns and hanging around the marketplace with some of his students, and finally, even while under arrest and drinking the hemlock. He was the first to demonstrate that our lives are open to philosophy at all times and in every aspect, while experiencing every emotion, and in each and every activity.” As with teaching and with leadership and with philosophy , so too with parenting. You can be a parent anywhere. It’s not just on fishing trips or at family dinners. It’s not just about carrying them around in a baby bjorn or going to back-to-school night. It’s not about punishments or incentives, or rules or life lessons, though of course it’s also about all these things too. Remember what we’ve talked about with quality time vs. garbage time ? It may just be that the most impact you’ll have as a dad will come while joking around, it may come on a walk, it may come with how you do your job ( and show them your work ), it may come on a family vacation or it may come while you’re watching TV and make some passing comment that lands in exactly the right way. It may come—god forbid— on your deathbed, as you depart from this life with courage and compassion , showing them that they don’t need to be afraid, that you love them and that they’ll be okay without you. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, February 15, 2024
They Don’t Want This
Bruce Springsteen’s childhood was a strange one. His mother worked to support their family. His father was distant and harsh . He spent a lot of time with his grandparents, who spoiled him, in part because they were grieving the loss of their own daughter years earlier. “His Majesty, the Baby,” is how his childhood is described in the fascinating book Deliver Me From Nowhere (incredible book, by the way). Springsteen would admit that this kind of attention and celebration “seems to a kid like a great thing, but it’s exactly what a kid doesn’t want. Very problematic, it caused me a lot of trouble. To this day. It destroyed me and it made me. At the same time.” As we said before, nobody likes a spoiled child …especially the spoiled children. It warps their sense of reality. It makes them both entitled and strips them of pleasure—because they come to take it for granted. The attention ceases to have meaning because it feels like a birthright. It suffocates and isolates. They are deprived of skills they need, confidence and character they need. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, February 14, 2024
Your Calendar Doesn’t Lie
Marcus even wrote a testament to his love for his wife and their life together in a letter to his tutor Fronto. “I call the gods to witness,” he wrote, “that I would I were now living in exile with [Faustina] rather than without her on the Palatine.” Sure, the palaces were nice and so was power. He had an important job. But none of it was better than spending time with his lovely partner . It’s a wonderful sentiment, but is it true ? Marcus Aurelius spent years away from Rome, fighting wars, visiting the provinces. He spent time in Greece, as all students of philosophy considered a must. He had cases to adjudicate, dignitaries to receive, things to write. No doubt he spent a lot of time reading, a lot of time training, a lot of time committed to serving the people of Rome. It means putting the time on our calendar, scheduling play time, and sticking to it . Because you may be able to deceive yourself, but at the end of the day, your calendar doesn’t lie. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, February 13, 2024
It’s Not Easy To Be Your Kid
It’s not easy for lots of reasons. Gay Talese, who knew the Didion family ( who we’ve been talking about a lot recently ), speculates in Evelyn McDonnell’s biography of Joan Didion ( signed copies here ) what it must have been like to be Quintana Roo, their adopted daughter. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, February 12, 2024
The Compass That Guides Us
These are the Cardinal Virtues , which Zeno laid down in the 3rd Century B.C. as: Courage Discipline Justice Wisdom We need these virtues and we need to teach these virtues to our children. Their life…and the future hinges on it. So memorize these four virtues. Act on them. Live them. Parent by them. And keep them close to your heart always. If you want to carry the Four Virtues around like a compass,, over at Daily Stoic, we created the Four Virtues Medallion . INSERT 4V MEDALLION PIC The front of the Four Virtues Medallion features a custom-designed seal with four elements representing the Four Virtues: a lion (Courage), a man sprinkling water into a jug of wine (Temperance), a set of scales (Justice), and an owl (Wisdom). On the back is an admonition not to exchange the Four Virtues for others—for there is no other set of virtues that will serve you better than these. As with all our other coins , the Four Virtues Medallion is handcrafted in the United States by a custom mint operating in Minnesota since 1882. Each coin is shipped with an accompanying information card, explaining the Four Virtues to its fortunate recipient. Each coin has a unique finish and character. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, February 10, 2024
Ryan Holiday And Casey Neistat On The Purpose Of Parenthood (Daily Dad Book Tour Pt 1)
While on tour for his new book The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids , Ryan met up with his longtime friend and occasional running partner Casey Neistat for a live interview at Barnes & Noble in Union Square during which they shared the story of how they met, reflections and wisdom they have gleaned from their journeys through parenthood, the work and life habits that have led to their success, their advice for new parents, and more. Casey Neistat is a YouTube personality, filmmaker, vlogger, the co-founder of the multimedia company Beme, and the founder of the creative and collaborative space for creators 368 . His main body of work consists of dozens of short films he has released exclusively on the Internet, including regular contributions to the New York Times critically acclaimed Op-Doc series. His online films and videos have been viewed over three billion times. You can find his work on his website www.caseyneistat.com and on his social media channels: YouTube: CaseyNeistat , IG: @caseyneistat , Twitter: @Casey . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, February 09, 2024
Aren’t You A Little Old For That?
“This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/dailydad and get on your way to being your best self.” When our kids mess up we say: Aren’t you a little old for that? And we have all sorts of rules of thumb for what things are age appropriate or not—what age they should stop having accidents, what age they should stop throwing a tantrum just because they’re tired , what age it stops being okay for other people to have to pick up after them. “We ought not willingly add to old age, which has many of its own problems, the shame of misbehaviors.” That’s Cato the Elder , who seems to have really lived up to that second part of his name. You’re too old to act out. And even if you weren’t, remember your kids are always watching— a little fellow follows you —so act like the adult that they believe you are. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, February 08, 2024
It Should Be Part Of Who You Are
There’s an interesting passage in Evelyn McDonnell’s fascinating biography of Joan Didion ( who we have written about many times and we also just had Evelyn on the Daily Stoic podcast), that points out another about the difference between how the public saw Didion and her husband John Gregory Dunne, also a great and successful writer. One was clearly identified as a parent and the other was not, even though Dunne actually wrote a whole book about the topic! As we’ve said before , by talking about the joys and the struggles of parenting you are helping other parents. You are putting things out in the open. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, February 07, 2024
Do It While You Can
We all feel a little self-conscious about it. Our kids don’t behave as well as we’d like. They make a mess. They make an incredible amount of noise. Perhaps this is why we keep them at home, why we’re always apologizing, preparing people in advance for the hurricane that may or may not come through. Maybe some of us fear being overshadowed by our kids or judged for having them with us— that it will undermine our image as professionals. Don’t apologize . Do your best to clean up, to teach them how to behave, but bring the brats with you. You won’t regret it in the long run…even if on occasion you do. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, February 06, 2024
You’ve Done Your Job
“This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/dailydad and get on your way to being your best self.” The great John Wooden would practice his team hard through the week. He’d run through the plans over and over and over again. Yet as they left the locker room and headed out onto the court for the game, he would say to the team, “Well, I’ve done my job.” He wasn’t going to be micromanaging them from the sideline. It was their turn to do their job. And so it goes for us as parents. At some point, we have to leave them at the entrance to the school. At their job. With their own finances. With their own children. We can’t solve every problem. We can’t prevent everything from going wrong . That’s their job. Jessica Lahey’s wonderful book The Gift of Failure ( pick it up at The Painted Porch ) reminds us that by not giving them this chance, by not letting them try and struggle to do their job, we’re actually harming them. We’re setting them up for more failure down the road…and less ability to deal with it. Giving children the space to struggle because we believe in them, because we believe even more in what will come out the other side, isn’t always easy—for us or them. That’s why one side of our Luctor et Emergo medallion features the mantra, “good, not easy,” surrounded by three other reminders we parents need each day: “let them struggle,” “show them support,” “help them grow.” Get one to carry around with you at the Daily Dad Store today! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, February 05, 2024
It’s A Window. See It As A Window
In her wonderful book Good Inside (yes, we love it), Dr. Becky Kennedy writes that “on the surface we see a behavior, but underneath we see a person. ” We’ve said before that your kids are always talking to you— just not necessarily with words . “Throwing the cereal box wasn’t the main event,” Dr. Becky explains. “It was a window into the main event. Behavior, in all its forms, is a window: into the feelings, thoughts, urges, sensations, perceptions, and unmet needs of a person. Behavior is never “the story” but rather it’s a clue to the bigger story begging to be addressed.” ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, February 05, 2024
It’s A Window. See It As A Window
The tantrum. The whining about going to school. The punch that’s thrown. The slipping grades. The sneaking out. The lie. The shouting. The moping around the house. These are not things you like to see your kids do. Maybe these are things you’ve talked to them about before, maybe a million times. But maybe that’s the problem. You’re seeing the wrong thing. You’re talking about the wrong thing. In her wonderful book Good Inside (yes, we love it), Dr. Becky Kennedy writes that “on the surface we see a behavior, but underneath we see a person. ” We’ve said before that your kids are always talking to you— just not necessarily with words . “Throwing the cereal box wasn’t the main event,” Dr. Becky explains. “It was a window into the main event. Behavior, in all its forms, is a window: into the feelings, thoughts, urges, sensations, perceptions, and unmet needs of a person. Behavior is never “the story” **but rather it’s a clue to the bigger story begging to be addressed.” What a wonderful gift it would be to your family, to everyone you met, if you could start seeing behavior not as a thing to be upset about but a window into how someone is doing , what is going on with them. We’ve said it many times— they’re telling you that they’re hungry , that they’re tired , that they’re scared , that they’re lonely , that they’re overwhelmed or stressed. But they don’t know how to say that…so they lash out, so they hide in their room, so they call you something mean. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, February 03, 2024
Ryan Holiday And Nathan Barry On Simple Parenting Techniques
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks to creator, author, designer, and the founder of ConvertKit Nathan Barry on having kids earlier in their career, their interest in farms and outdoors, and the process of Emotional Vaccination. IG, and, X, ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, February 02, 2024
Your Character Determines Everything
These are challenging, uncertain times, no question. What’s at the root of it? How did we get here? And what can fathers do about it? The answer comes to us, as it often does, from an ancient prescription: Character is fate . Who a person is determines what will happen and what they can do. It should surprise no one that a culture that has put character at the absolute bottom of the list of requirements for its leaders—below whether they tell us what we want to hear, below how clever their tweets are, below how they look on television, below whether they’ll pass short-term measures that benefit us financially, below whether they belong to this party or that one—would find itself in crisis after crisis. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, February 01, 2024
This is Power
Rich is how much you get to see your kids , we said recently. We were redefining wealth away from material items and salary—although these things are nice as far as they go—and towards a thing that pretty much everyone wishes they had more of: time with the people you love most. Is it really a rich life if you are missing out on something so priceless? Perhaps it’s worth also taking a minute to do some similar considerations about power. There are the obvious trappings of power: The corner office. The gatekeepers. The influence you have over world events or an audience. The presidency. The title. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, January 31, 2024
You Ain’t Got Time
Maybe you did before, but you can’t now. Before you could afford to get sucked into drama, to gossip, to get into long arguments with your buddies, to be petty, to hold grudges, to follow the latest breaking news or celebrity. But now? Now, you need to remind yourself: I ain’t got time for that . Because you don’t. You have kids now. You have people you’re responsible for. You have a big enough struggle on your hands. Your crazy coworker is their own problem. That actor who cheated on their spouse is in their own mess. Your dumb neighbor with the flag for the political cult they’ve joined…Your sibling’s poor financial choices…That person who is embarrassingly wrong on the internet…You ain’t got time for that. Not one second. You ain’t got one second for that anymore. TEMPUS FUGIT ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, January 30, 2024
It’s Never Too Late To Do This
We’ve said before that it’s never too late . It’s never too late, as a parent, to follow your dreams—to show your kids that they can too. It’s never too late to start showing up. It’s never too late to deal with your demons. It’s never too late to change. Sooner is better of course, but it’s never too late. It’s also never too late to do that thing we’ve been talking about a lot recently— repair . “Repair can happen ten minutes after a blowup, ten days later, or ten years later,” Dr. Becky Kennedy writes in Good Enough . “Never ever doubt the power of repair—every time you go back to your child, you allow him to rewire, to rewrite the ending of the story so it concludes in connection and understanding, rather than aloneness and fear.” ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, January 29, 2024
You Have To Come Down
It’s a wonderful state—being in flow. Getting caught up in your work. Getting caught up in the moment. And before you had kids, you lived for this…in fact, you may well have lived in it. Life was simpler then. You would get lost for days at a time in a project. You could spend years, it would seem in retrospect, in the building stages of a company, in the pursuit of a dream , in finding yourself, in exploring the world. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, January 27, 2024
Ryan and Sam Holiday on Protecting Your Headspace
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on how Sam prepares for writing Ryan, Integrating his routine in a well adjusted life, how this year is going to be different and maybe harder, and protecting your headspace. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, January 26, 2024
Make Them Do It On Their Own
There is a great story about a young Spartan woman, Gorgo, who would one day become queen. Despite her royal status, like all Spartans she was raised to be self-sufficient, and without any frills or needless luxury. So imagine Gorgo’s surprise when she witnessed a distinguished visitor to Sparta have his shoes put on by a servant. “Look, father,” she said, “the stranger has no hands!” ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, January 25, 2024
Help Them Understand This Distinction
We have emotions. We experience stressful situations. We have intrusive thoughts. So really what we have to teach our kids, Dr. Becky writes in her incredible book Good Inside (must read!), is how to differentiate urge from action. “Having the urge to bite is okay,” she explains, “biting a person is not. Having the urge to hit is okay; hitting a person is not okay.” We know this to be true in our adult lives—that there’s a big difference between being angry and then doing something rash or irresponsible or hurtful out of anger. We know that we can type the email and not send it. We know that we can want to quit on the spot but think better of it. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, January 24, 2024
You Can Go In A Different Direction
Our parents weren’t everything we needed. Maybe it was more time we needed. More understanding. More kindness. More support. More love. More just them having their act together. But they weren’t this. Sadly, they also weren’t what the world needed either. Few generations have been. They kicked problems down the road. They started wars that cost blood and treasure to little purpose. They abused the environment. They averted their gaze, turned their hearts away from sufferings and injustice. In a recent interview on Marc Maron’s podcast , Arnold Schwarzenegger talked about how his own life, as a parent, as a politician, as a person was largely driven by the desire to go in a different direction than the example of his father and his father’s generation. His father had been a Nazi, his father drank too much, his father smacked his kids around. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, January 23, 2024
You Gotta Let Them Do The Rest
George Dewey was a kid who got in trouble a lot. His father was always bailing him out. Finally, as a last ditch effort, he secured his son entrance into the U.S Naval Academy in 19XX. “George, I’ve done all I can for you,” his father told him as he dropped him off. “The rest you must do for yourself.” We talked a while back about how you have to let your kids fail , you have to let them struggle. As we’ve said before Luctor Et Emergo—from the struggle they emerge ( we have a cool challenge coin as a reminder for parents ). ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, January 22, 2024
All They Wanted
The bike was nice. So was the trip to Disneyland. So was being able to graduate from college without student debt. They appreciated the presents. They appreciated the clothes that fit. Or maybe they didn’t. Maybe they took for granted what it cost for you to buy a house where they could have their own room. Maybe they didn’t understand what it took out of you to give them a better life than you had, to pay for all this stuff, to pay to go to all these places. Maybe they didn’t understand because that stuff wasn’t really what they wanted, even if they said they did. Because—and you know this already, you do— all they really wanted was you. They wanted you to be present , more than they wanted presents. They wanted your love, your attention, they wanted your acceptance. They wanted your support. They wanted you to be proud of them. They wanted you to apologize. They wanted you to understand them. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, January 20, 2024
Ryan Holiday And Dr. Becky Kennedy On Emotional Vaccination (PT 2)
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad Podcast, Ryan talks with clinical psychologist Dr. Becky Kennedy on how we emotionally vaccinate, the ability to cope through stress, educating our kids on emotions and her new book Good Inside Dr. Becky Kennedy is an American clinical psychologist who is founder and chief executive officer of the Good Inside company, an online parenting advice service. She has been called the "millennial parent whisperer" by Time Magazine and is a number one New York Times bestseller for her book Good Inside . As a mom of three, when she was first starting out, she practiced a popular behavior-first, reward-and-punishment model of parent coaching. But, after a while, something struck her: those methods feel awful–for kids and parents. She put together everything she knew about attachment, mindfulness, emotion regulation, and internal family systems theory, and translated those ideas into a new method for working with parents. www.GoodInside.com IG: (drbeckyatgoodinside) Podcast: Good Inside with Dr. Becky ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, January 19, 2024
It’s a Long Run We’ve Signed Up For
The career opportunities are hard to turn down. It’s hard in the moment, as we’ve talked about , to be able to think too far into the future. It’s hard to make much in the way of long term investments as a parent because you’re so overwhelmed by the responsibilities of the present. But we have to remember what we’re after, we have to keep in perspective that this is a marathon we’ve signed up for. We quoted the baseball player Anthony Rendon recently about how he was having to weigh painful but career-elongating surgeries and the grind of continuing to play against the kind of shape he wants to be in as his kids get older and the kind of relationship he can have with them. “Right now, it looks like we are only playing for these next four years of baseball,” Rendon said, “but I’m trying to hang out with my kids for the rest of their lives.” ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, January 18, 2024
Rules Are Important
You didn’t like rules when you were a kid. Your parents had too many. Your school was a prison of pointless, arbitrary ones—how you could dress, when you could go to the bathroom, how you had to hold the pencil. So it makes sense that you’re averse to them now. It’s good that you question how many of them matter and don’t want to make the same mistakes as adults did in your own childhood. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, January 17, 2024
Show Them Like This
There are lots of ways to read, ways that have improved the experience and opened up the world of literature to people who otherwise would have missed out. Ebooks are awesome. Audiobooks are spectacular. They let you read anywhere. They let you read faster. They let you read while you’re multitasking. All from the convenience of a device in your pocket smaller than the smallest book. But that’s sort of the problem isn’t it? Your kids have no idea that that is what you’re using your phone for. To them, you could just as easily be on Twitter. You could be answering emails and working like you always do. You could be betting on sports. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, January 16, 2024
You Owe Them This
You know your kids are good. You’ve seen their sweetness, their cuteness since the beginning . You’ve seen them try. You’ve seen them feel shame when they’ve messed up. You also know how hard it is to be a person , let alone a kid, in this world. Life is frustrating. Life is tough. It’s full of temptations. It’s easy to make mistakes . It’s easy to get overwhelmed. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, January 15, 2024
Being This Young Is Art
How flexible you were then. How much energy you had. What you could eat without consequence. The innocence. The earnestness. The sweetness. You had it once and now, it’s gone, disappeared beneath the years and the experiences and everything else. When Taylor Swift sang ‘being this young is art,’ she wasn’t talking about your kids, about kids generally, but she may as well have been. And it’s high time we appreciate it. Because it’s something special, something irreplaceable, something that one can only do for a short time, at a very specific time. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, January 13, 2024
Ryan and Sam Holiday On Creating Better Systems In 2024
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on Their word for 2024 being systems, designing the system around people instead of people around the system, and creating plans before they happen instead of during the chaos. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, January 12, 2024
They’re Doing What They Do
The late Paul Woodruff told a wonderful story in his episode on the Daily Stoic podcast . Before he died, he loved birdwatching and had a bird feeder in his backyard. But the squirrels kept stealing the birdseed he was putting out. This was frustrating and annoying and he found himself growing angry. But then he remembered a passage from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations about how we should accept when things are doing what their nature demands. The squirrels were not trying to give Paul a hard time, they did not mean any harm. The squirrels were simply doing what they do. They were doing what their nature demanded. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, January 11, 2024
Help Them Become Who They Are
Bruce Springsteen has three children: Evan, Jessica, and Sam. One of them is an Olympic-level equestrian (which can not have been a cheap or easy interest to encourage, nor always a fun one to watch). His son, Sam, recently became a New Jersey firefighter (a scary thought for any parent). Clearly, Bruce and his wife Patti have figured out how to help their children become who they are, and to realize their potential. “I wanted them to see people that did a lot of other things,” Bruce once said in an interview , “be around people who would shape them and they would have a lot of options.” Perhaps his inclination to encourage them to pursue their dreams comes from his own experience. In his autobiography , Springsteen takes us back to when he was 7 years old and watched the controversial rockstar Elvis Presley’s appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. When Elvis walked off the stage, “I sat there transfixed in front of the television set, my mind on fire. I had the same two arms, two legs, two eyes; I looked hideous but I’d figure that part out… so what was missing? THE GUITAR! The next day I convinced my mom to take me to Diehl’s Music on South Street in Freehold. There, with no money to spend, we rented a guitar.” ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail 🏛 Check out the Daily Stoic Store for Stoic inspired products, signed books, and more. 📱 Follow us: Instagram , Twitter , YouTube , TikTok , Facebook
Wed, January 10, 2024
What Are You Playing For?
It can be hard in the moment to think of anything else. You have lunches to make. Practices to get to. Birthday parties to plan. Work to do. Childhoods to survive. Having kids is so overwhelming that your ability to conceive of two weeks from now, let alone the future, is severely compromised. This isn’t entirely a bad thing—it’s good to be in the moment, to not get too far ahead of yourself. But at the same time, you do need to make sure that you consider more than just this moment. The baseball player Anthony Rendon has talked about how he’s needed to balance optimizing not just for his professional career but his goals as a parent. “Even if the season doesn’t work out or the next four years don’t work out,” he said recently, “I’m planning for taking care of my kids when they get older. Hip surgeries, wrist surgeries, ankle surgeries … I want to play with them when they are 10, 12, 15 years old.” ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, January 09, 2024
Rich Is How Much You Get To See Your Kids
There are lots of different trappings of wealth. A big house. A nice car. Exotic vacations. First-class flights? Private flights? Not everyone can afford these things . In fact, that’s sort of the point—they are considered fancy and elite because of how elusive they are. But is this really wealth? Or is this just materialism? On Christmas (and it’s the Dec 25th entry in * The Daily Da*d book , too), we quoted Paul Orfalea , the billionaire founder of Kinkos, who defined ‘success’ as having kids who come home for the holidays. He was saying that there are lots of wealthy people out there who don’t have that, who are estranged from their family. But what’s interesting about this idea is that it is largely focused on where you and your kids end up later in life, when they have a choice about how much they see you. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, January 08, 2024
Don’t Send Them In Defenseless
Your kids are going to face stuff in life. Big stuff for sure–failing tests, being made fun of, getting fired, losing something important to them. We may wish we could prevent that from happening, but we can’t. We teach them resilience instead. But our kids are also going to face little situations too. The TV is going to have to be turned off at some point, and they’re not going to like it. They’re going to have to get up early for school tomorrow. Their routines are going to change. They’re going to have to try new things . They’re going to be out of their comfort zone. This is going to bring up strong emotions: Frustration. Fear. Anger. Annoyance. Sadness. The answer to this is also resilience, but in a more specific way. Dr. Becky talks about this in her fantastic book Good Inside , referring to a strategy she calls “emotional vaccination.” ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, January 06, 2024
Ryan Holiday And Dr. Becky Kennedy On Emotional Vaccination
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad Podcast, Ryan talks with clinical psychologist Dr. Becky Kennedy on how we emotionally vaccinate, the ability to cope through stress, educating our kids on emotions and her new book Good Inside Dr. Becky Kennedy is an American clinical psychologist who is founder and chief executive officer of the Good Inside company, an online parenting advice service. She has been called the "millennial parent whisperer" by Time Magazine and is a number one New York Times bestseller for her book Good Inside . As a mom of three, when she was first starting out, she practiced a popular behavior-first, reward-and-punishment model of parent coaching. But, after a while, something struck her: those methods feel awful–for kids and parents. She put together everything she knew about attachment, mindfulness, emotion regulation, and internal family systems theory, and translated those ideas into a new method for working with parents. www.GoodInside.com IG: (drbeckyatgoodinside) Podcast: Good Inside with Dr. Becky ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, January 05, 2024
Show Them What They’ll Get Out Of This
Most schools and most parents teach reading all wrong. They bully kids into doing it. They pressure them. They tell them, “Reading is what smart and successful people do.” Then they’re surprised when kids who struggled with reading don’t think they’re smart, and they wonder why kids almost wear illiteracy as a badge of honor. They wonder why people say things like, “I haven’t read a book since I was forced to in high school.” No, the way to teach a kid to read is not to talk about how wonderful literature is and force them to read fancy or pretentious novels. You teach a kid to love books by—as the great lover of books Robert Greene has said—appealing to their self-interest. *Show them what they will get out of books.*Tangibly. Immediately. Show them that quote from Warren Buffet, where he says the single best investment he ever made was buying a copy of Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, January 04, 2024
This Is What We Have To Try To Get Better At
We spend so much time at the office, trying to get better at our jobs, trying to make a little more money, trying to climb further up the ladder. We spend hours in the gym over the course of a life, trying to get into better shape, trying to hit personal records. We spend mountains of time online, trying to help our fantasy football teams, trying to find discount codes to save money shopping, trying to stay abreast of our friends’ and families’ lives (or so we tell ourselves). ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, January 03, 2024
You Have To Know How These Things Land
It doesn’t feel like they listen. In fact, we have pretty visible evidence that they don’t. We tell them not to do this or that and then we watch them do that exact thing. We warn them, remind them, advise them…and then they come to us crying or complaining or in trouble, having heeded none of that guidance. So you can be forgiven for missing the fact that not only are they listening to what you say, but that your words have an enormous effect on them. So much so that you have to really, really be careful. Think about your own life. Are there not things that your parents said that still weigh on you? The way your father would call you lazy. The comments your mother made about food or your weight. The way they would tease you. The things they said about your grades. The tone they used when they were disappointed or angry. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, January 02, 2024
This is What It Costs
We’ve been quoting recently from the old children’s story The Velveteen Rabbit , about a toy that’s so loved by a young boy that it becomes real. This is a great metaphor for parenting in a way. Because that’s what’s happening to us. We made a decision to have kids many years ago and then for years that decision works on us, shaping, changing, transforming us . No part of that is more powerful than the love and energy of our children—whose joy, whose innocence, whose pain, whose growth is working on us always…even as it takes so much out of us. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, January 01, 2024
Show Them It’s Not Too Late
We talked recently about what Dr. Becky Kennedy always tells parents: it’s never too late . We’ve talked about Nell Painter’s mother , who became an author late in life (and Nell Painter herself, who went back and was Old in Art School ) We’ve talked about Bruce Springsteen’s father finally telling Bruce what he needed to hear. We’ve talked about other parents who got their act together late . We should be inspired by these examples. We should be inspired to be this example for our kids. We should show them, it’s never too late. It’s never too late to lose weight, to change, to find a new career, to quit a longtime vice, to try something new, to invest in yourself, to repair or apologize or make amends. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, December 30, 2023
Ryan and Sam Holiday on The Importance Of Routine
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on finding common ground and learning to empathize after they had kids, the value of to do lists, pros and cons from the pandemic & the importance of routine. If you want to spend time with more dedicated Stoics, if you want to join a culture full of people rising together, we invite you to join the 2024 Daily Stoic New Year New You Challenge . We did the first New Year New You Challenge in 2018, and year after year, we’ve realized more and more that one of the core benefits of the challenge is the community dynamic. Change and improvement comes fastest through culture, results through accountability, and wisdom through exposure to new people and new ideas. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, December 29, 2023
Why Are You Trying To Make This Go Away?
We’ve said this before, but one of the things we need to constantly remind ourselves of as parents is that our kids are just being kids. If we’re being honest, what’s closer to an accurate description of a kid: those behaviors listed above or being a perfectly quiet, perfectly obedient, perfectly well mannered and well behaved? You know that kids do these things, you know that it’s normal, you know that it’s largely harmless, you know that they have very little control over it, that it’s all part of a process of learning and growing and figuring things out. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, December 28, 2023
Reform is Necessary, Despair is Criminal
You weren’t the parent you wanted to be in 2023. You weren’t the person you wanted to be in 2023. Almost no one was. Anyone who thinks or says they were is lying…and for most of us, this truth goes back further than a calendar year. None of us are perfect. We all screwed up. We all back-slid. We all picked up bad habits. And as a parent, that means our kids picked up those bad habits too. Because, as we’ve said before, behavior is the language of children . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, December 27, 2023
The Debt Is Paid Forward
We do so much for our kids. We drive them around. We provide for them . We entertain them. And of course, there are parents who do even more. Parents who packed up and moved across the world for a better life for their kids. Parents who gave their lives for their kids. How much do children understand these sacrifices? How much do they appreciate it? Not fully, that’s for sure. But that’s OK—because it’s not theirs to understand, it’s not theirs to appreciate. As we’ve said before , we owe our kids everything. We’re the ones that brought them into this world. They don’t owe us anything except to be themselves. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, December 26, 2023
[Good Inside] It’s Never Too Late
Every parent wishes they could have done some things differently . Maybe you wish you were around more when they were a toddler. Maybe you wish you were more patient when they were a teenager. Maybe you wish you said I love you more. In her amazing book Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be , Dr. Becky Kennedy writes that that’s what she hears all the time: ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, December 25, 2023
This Is a Gift To Give Yourself (And Your Family)
Today we wanted to run our favorite entry from The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids , a helpful reminder on this day of celebration. When you were younger, for Christmas, all you wanted was presents. Now that you’re older, now that you have kids, all you want is presence . All you want is for your kids to be present over the holidays. Our New Year New You Challenge is all-new content, guided by thousands of responses and reactions to our previous challenges, courses, videos, and emails. It’s a whole new challenge based on painstaking research and timeless science, for an all-new, life changing experience. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, December 23, 2023
Ryan and Sam Holiday on Recognizing The Most Important Thing
“This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/dailydad and get on your way to being your best self.” On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on the emotional neglect that comes with using kids for social media, t he culture of Christmas being stressful, not letting work or expectations become the main thing along with self awareness and communication. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, December 22, 2023
You Must Give Them This Gift
Theodore Roosevelt lived an incredible life. He was an author. A naturalist. A rancher. A police chief. A cowboy. A hunter. A governor. A soldier. A president. An explorer. A philanthropist. And that’s probably not even close to an exhaustive list. His life was full of activity. It was full of adventure. It was marked by triumph and adversity to overcome. It’s worth telling your kids the story of Theodore Roosevelt to inspire them for the same reason that Theodore Roosevelt’s parents made sure he knew about the fascinating and inspiring lives of history. As one biographer observed , “the story of Theodore Roosevelt is the story of a small boy who read about great men and decided he wanted to be like them.” So we’ll leave you today by putting a challenge in front of you. For the last four years, we have been doing what we call the Daily Stoic New Year New You Challenge —a set of 21 actionable challenges, presented one per day, built around the best, most timeless wisdom in Stoic philosophy. These aren’t pie-in-the-sky, theoretical discussions but clear, immediate exercises and methods you can begin right now to spark the reinvention you’ve been trying for. We’ll tell you what to do, how to do it, and why it works. From these challenges, you will: ✓ Learn to stop procrastinating and avoiding the change you truly desire ✓ Build new habits that form a strong foundation for change ✓ Abandon the harmful habits that are dragging you down ✓ Strengthen your character, becoming a more virtuous version of yourself And above all: You will find out just how much you are capable of. Every morning, the email arrives in your inbox, and it presents you with a choice. You can do the harder thing, you can do the challenge. Or you can follow the drift of least resistance—you can open the email and leave it at that. Or worse…you can ignore this call right now and not sign up at all. Which way will you go? The 2024 New Year New You Challenge officially begins on Monday, January 1st. Stop delaying. Head over to dailystoic.com/challenge and sign up NOW ! Let’s go. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , <a href='https://facebook.com/d
Fri, December 22, 2023
You Must Give Them This Gift
Theodore Roosevelt lived an incredible life. He was an author. A naturalist. A rancher. A police chief. A cowboy. A hunter. A governor. A soldier. A president. An explorer. A philanthropist. And that’s probably not even close to an exhaustive list. His life was full of activity. It was full of adventure. It was marked by triumph and adversity to overcome. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, December 21, 2023
You’re Made Not Born
There is a beautiful passage in The Velveteen Rabbit where the young rabbit asks one of the seasoned old toys in the playroom whether ‘becoming real’—the process of being changed by the love of a child—is something that has to do with how a toy is made. Is it about having certain parts, he asked? Does it require a certain makeup? "Real isn't how you are made," says the toy horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real." So yes, it’s a choice, but an unusual type of choice. It’s the decision, as we’ve talked about, to accept this process. To open yourself up to it. To let it change you . We choose to have kids, and they choose to give us their love , to really love us. We play with them , we connect with them, we open ourselves to them and they to us. And then this process changes, transforms both of us in the most wonderful and magical of ways. For those ready to accept the process, to open yourself up to it, we created the 2024 New Year New You Challenge. It’s a set of 21 actionable challenges—presented one per day—built around the best, most timeless wisdom in Stoic philosophy. Our goal is to help you and your family make 2024 your best year yet. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, December 20, 2023
Are You Modeling This?
Beauty to the Stoics was far deeper than appearances. “If your choices are beautiful,” Epictetus said, “so too will you be.” It’s simple and it’s true. You are what your choices make you, nothing more and nothing less. Isn’t this what we try to teach our kids? That, yes of course, we love them unconditionally and unequivocally, and have since the moment they were born, but they have this incredible power to choose what kind of person they’re going to be. The reason we read to them, the reason we tell them things, the reason we have rules and punishments and incentives in our house is to try to instill in them a good compass for making good choices. We created the 2024 New Year, New You Challenge for that person and for that reason—to help you create a better life, and a new you in 2024. It’s 3 weeks of actionable challenges, presented in an email per day, built around the best, most timeless wisdom in Stoic philosophy. It’s 3 weeks of waking up each morning, opening the email, and making a beautiful choice. And it will require 3 weeks of discipline and sacrifice and following the process. But when you see the results? Well, it will take your breath away. So sign up NOW to join us in the 2024 Daily Stoic New Year New You Challenge! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, December 19, 2023
You’re Responsible Too
Each of us is responsible for what we do as parents, but we’re also responsible for the dynamic that exists in our homes and in our relationships. Just because you’re the nice one, just because you do the repairing, just because you’re not as hard on your kids—that doesn’t mean that you’re not complicit in the stress or strain that’s being inflicted. It’s our job to create a safe and loving and supportive home. We can’t make excuses— Oh, he’s just under stress at work. Oh, that’s what she learned growing up. And this pertains to more than just punishment. It’s our job to get on the same pages as our spouse, our co-parent, their step-parent, our ex, whatever, and figure out how to do this right. If we’re struggling, if we sense something’s wrong? Well, we can’t deny it. We can’t make excuses for it. We can’t just leave our children to fend for themselves with it. Because what they’ll end up doing is blaming themselves…and eventually, inevitably, you too. For those tired of making excuses, we announced last week the 2024 New Year New You challenge. This set of 21 actionable challenges—presented one per day, built around the most timeless wisdom in Stoic philosophy—is really a set of 21 choices. Every morning, the email arrives in your inbox, and you have to choose. Will you take the easy way or the hard way? Will you read the email and leave it at that or will you take on the challenge? Will you get better this year? That’s the question. That’s the choice. That’s the responsibility you can accept.
Mon, December 18, 2023
It’s Ultimately This That They Judge You On
There’s no question Hemingway was a great writer. He was the voice of a generation—The Lost Generation. He redefined prose style in the English language. His books have sold millions of copies. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He wrote beautifully on love and family ( A Farewell to Arms ). He wrote beautifully on struggle and perseverance ( The Old Man and the Sea ). He was also a pretty awful husband and father. As one of his sons said, to Hemingway “family life [was] the enemy of accomplishment.” It was a thing that interfered with his greatness, his craft, his books. “On several occasions,” Patrick Hemingway recounted that Hemingway “said being a a good husband, being a good father…all of [these things were] not recognized by a reviewer when he reviewed his book.” ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, December 16, 2023
Ryan Holiday And Whitney Cummings On Self-Awareness And The Ability To Update
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks to American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, director, producer, and podcaster Whitney Cummings on self-awareness, the ability to update the script, and the impressions we leave on our children. IG, X, and Tiktok: @WhitneyCummings To follow her on OnlyFans @Whitney ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, December 15, 2023
This Is Something To Be Glad About
It can be hard to express your feelings as a father sometimes. Not so much because men are expected to bottle up their emotions, but because the emotions that come with being a dad can be so overwhelming and complex. It’s a rush of a million feelings: love, joy, fear, absurdity, exhaustion, responsibility, motivation, and primal attachment. No one prepared you for any of this…and it’s unlike anything you’ve ever dealt with before. How do you express it? How do you let your family know what they mean to you? How they have you wrapped around their finger, how they are your everything? Maybe the line from The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse will suffice. “Sometimes I want to say I love you all,” says the mole, “but I find it difficult.” “Do you?” says the boy. “Yes, so I say something like I’m glad we are all here.” ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, December 14, 2023
Don’t Try To Make Them Happy
A parent is only as happy as their unhappiest child , goes the expression. And even if that wasn’t true, even if it didn’t directly impact our own happiness, would any of us want our children to be unhappy? Of course not. We love them so much . The last thing we want is for them to feel pain. We want their lives to be wonderful. We want them to have fun . We want them to have a great life. We want them to be happy! There’s nothing wrong with this…except that oftentimes trying to make someone happy is a recipe for failure. “Happiness is not my ultimate goal for my own kids,” Dr. Becky Kennedy writes in her amazing book Good Inside (which we continue to rave about). “ Un happiness certainly isn’t my goal for them, but here’s a deep irony in parenting: the more we emphasize our children’s happiness and ‘feeling better,’ the more we set them up for an adulthood of anxiety.”
Wed, December 13, 2023
Why Not?
He was a young man fresh out of the Naval Academy and a stint in the submarine service. He was being interviewed by Admiral Hyman Rickover for a coveted spot in the nuclear program. Then he got the question that changed his life. “How did you stand in your class at the academy?” Rickover asked. “Sir, I stood 59th in a class of 820,” future president Jimmy Carter answered. “But did you do your best?” Rickover asked. And when Carter could not honestly answer that he has always done his best, Rickover simply said, “Why not?” and then ended the interview. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, December 12, 2023
Let Them Know They Have It
We wanted it so badly and we never got it. We still haven’t got it. Dad was withholding, dad was hard to please—we wanted to make him proud, but we just couldn’t. That’s partly why we’re working so hard today. There’s some part of us that thinks if we can just accomplish enough, make enough money, win enough awards, surpass him then maybe, finally, we’ll get that begrudging pat on the back. We’ll get him to acknowledge us. He’ll let us know he respects us, loves us, and appreciates us. But somehow it never seems to be enough. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, December 11, 2023
You Have This Freedom Now
There are things you would have never done before. You’d never have sung a crazy song in public. You’d never have painted your nails. You would have vomited before you sucked snot out of someone’s nose ( as Hasan Minhaj did ). You’d have rather starved than put on a McUniform and work extra hours at some job you hate. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sun, December 10, 2023
How To Raise A Resilient Child
“This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/dailydad and get on your way to being your best self.” On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad Podcast, Ryan reminds us to raise a resilient child by resisting the urge to intervene, helping them manage their emotions, showing them that everything thing can be figured out, and lastly leading by example. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, December 08, 2023
Don’t Let Your Kids Be Worse
We’ve talked about this before : Being a father is a second chance. It’s a fresh start. It’s an obligation to work on yourself so your kids pick up where you’ve left off, benefiting from the struggle and progress you have made. You can’t pass them the baton of your weaknesses and flaws. You cannot let them be worse than you. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, December 07, 2023
It Doesn’t Happen All At Once
No one is the parent they want to be. That’s the bad news. The good news is that most of us are better parents than we were. We’ve talked a lot about the big choice we all have to make . Are we just somebody who has kids? Or are we a parent? And while this is a choice, it’s also more of an aspiration. You don’t magically, suddenly become the perfect parent. How could you? There’s so much you don’t know , so many lessons you haven’t learned, so many gifts you haven’t been given yet. So much stuff hasn’t happened yet. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, December 06, 2023
This Will Make Your Life (And Kids) Better
Most times, we’re in need of all the help we can get. We read parenting books, or watch parenting videos, trying to find those keys to make our lives just a little bit easier. That’s why we created the Daily Dad email, after all. Seneca said that we ought to acquire one thing per day – whether that’s a quote, a story, a relationship that makes us better, it doesn’t matter. We try to deliver that one thing in each email. But of course, we couldn’t do it alone. When trying to deliver that one thing to you each day, we often need one thing ourselves to inspire us, to help us become the best people and parents that we can be. Some of these things are books. Some are items to carry with you, or to keep on your desk. Some make for great holiday gifts. Some you might want to share with new or expecting parents. In any form, check them out…and pass them along if they work. The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Love, Parenting, and Raising Great Kids by Ryan Holiday In each of his letters to his friend Lucilius , Seneca would include a quote, something to chew on, a thought to guide the day. “Each day,” he told Lucilius, you should “acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes, as well.” Just one thing. Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be by Dr. Becky Kennedy When we talk about parenting books that completely change your perspective about raising your kids, we’re probably talking about this one. We’ve talked about it plenty of times before (like here , here , and here ), and will inevitably keep returning to it, not only because it’s a book about becoming a better parent, but it’s also about simply becoming a better person. It’s about building empathy. How to Raise Kids Who Aren’t Assholes by Melinda Wenner Moyer At some point, we’ve all been scared that our kids will be bad people, that they won’t be the respectful and hard-working person we thought we raised them to be. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , <a
Tue, December 05, 2023
They Are Doing Their Job
We’ve been talking about Dr. Becky’s wonderful book Good Inside recently (a must read!), and she has a great little section where she’s talking about a parent who ends up having to pick up and physically remove their child from a situation where they are hitting their younger sibling. There’s guilt and frustration and fear and so much that comes up in these situations. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, December 04, 2023
They Deserve To Know
It’s dark stuff. It’s not pleasant. We wish it wasn’t true. But that doesn’t mean we can hide it from our children. Because it did happen. And it can easily happen again if we’re not careful. John G. Burnett knew this. That’s why on his birthday in 1890, he finally told his children what happened when he was in the army in 1838. He told them what he saw at what’s become known as the Trail of Tears. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sun, December 03, 2023
Ryan And Sam On Who Makes The Decision
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on understanding the alternatives later and making the decision, while teaching our children the correct instincts while their away from home. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, December 01, 2023
You’re Making Them Hungry
It does work. We have to concede that. For generations, some parents have tried withholding praise, withholding pride, withholding approval so that their kids don’t feel entitled to it. The idea is that this will make them hungry, make them really work for it. No participation trophies here! You’ve got to earn it in my house! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, November 30, 2023
What Legacy Are You Providing?
Harry Truman was not a good businessman. The clothing shop he opened with a friend was a disaster—and he was paying off the debts through his senate career and into his presidency. Most of his investments were flops. He had to sell off chunks of his mother’s farm when they couldn’t pay the mortgage. After he left office, the only safety net he had was his army pension. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, November 29, 2023
What Do You Want Them NOT To Say?
We know what we want our kids to say about us when they grow up. We want them to say that we were great parents , that we did our best. We want them to say that they knew they were loved. We want them to say that they love spending time with us–especially now that they’re older and they have a choice. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, November 28, 2023
Teach Them This To Give Them That
We want happy kids, obviously. But as we talked about recently, you can’t make your kids happy. Certainly, you can’t always keep them happy. So what do you do? There’s a great exchange between Epictetus (we recommend his Discourses ) and one of his students. The student is asking Epictetus to show him what to do so he can be wise and successful. This is the wrong request, Epictetus says. It would be better to ask how to be adaptable to circumstances. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, November 27, 2023
You Gave Up This Right
Being a parent doesn’t mean you give up on your dreams. We’ve talked about this many times . What kind of message would it send to your kids to see their parents quit on themselves? What kind of house is it to grow up in where Mom or Dad aren’t growing, changing, aren’t taking risks, aren’t fulfilled? And yet, we also understand that it’s not about us anymore. Before, sure, we could take every risk and pursue every opportunity. But things are different now. There are people counting on us, people affected by our decisions. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, November 25, 2023
Ryan and Sam On Reflecting Through Parenting And Solving The Problem
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on breaking constraints, finding the solution to the problem, and the impacts on their household reflecting through parenting. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, November 24, 2023
How To Raise Generous Kids
It’s a world with too many problems. It’s a world with too much suffering. It’s a world with too much selfishness. We can’t fix all of this as people nor as parents. But we can try to help a little. We’ve talked before about Ron Lieber’s clever description for the goal of most parents. We’re trying, he says, to raise kids who are “the opposite of spoiled.” (he has a book of the same name ). That is to say, kids who are not just self-sufficient, but have energy and resources left over to help others. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, November 23, 2023
No One Has It Better Than You
Things could be so much better. This could be a world that takes care of parents and families. It could be a world with a better safety net. It could be a world where we don’t shrug after a school shooting, or as democracy is dismantled by fanatics and nut-jobs. We could use more support. Inflation could come down. Your spouse could get their act together. Things could be better, they should be better. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, November 22, 2023
It’s Been Like This A While
Kids have always been like this. They’ve always been crazy . Always had trouble sleeping at night. Always liked to play and explore. They’ve been overwhelmed by hormones. They’ve been driving their parents crazy a long time. We talked a while back about Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Children’s Games painting which depicts a loud and raucous scene of kids playing outside. It’s 463 years old and yet, with a few exceptions, it resembles almost exactly what the kids in your neighborhood were doing last weekend. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, November 21, 2023
This Is What To Train Them In
It’s easy to forget it when you see them hitting a sibling. Or when you catch them in a lie. When you hear them say something mean. When the call comes in from school, or worse, the police station. It’s easy to forget that our kids are good. That they have good morals. A good heart. That they are still that same innocent and pure little thing we brought home from the hospital. It’s easy to forget because we’re so worried, so worried that our sweet innocent and pure thing will end up like most of the people we meet in life–which is to say not so innocent and pure. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, November 20, 2023
How To Care Less What Others Think
We used to need so much to be happy, as we talked about recently . We needed things to go well. We needed excitement and success. We needed people to like us. We needed people’s approval. But now? Now, not so much. Conan O’Brien, who like any performer has some part of him that craves attention and validation, has explained how his insecurity has lessened as he got older and had a family. “Oh as long as they’re alright,” he has said of his kids, then basically everything is right. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sun, November 19, 2023
Ryan & Sam On The Right Way To Praise
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on staying consistent to the system, the results to bad decision making, and comparing ourselves against ourselves. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, November 17, 2023
It’s Not Annoying, It’s The Job
Sometimes it can feel like being a dad is just an endless series of errands. It’s the call from the bedroom that they need a glass of water. It’s the call from college for you to come to take them shopping for something they need for their apartment. It’s the running around town getting soccer cleats, or picking up concert tickets, or bringing them the homework they forgot. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, November 16, 2023
You Don’t Have The Time
We talked recently about some of the folks who comment on the Daily Dad Instagram (do follow us!) or reply to these emails. Sure, some of the responses are nice, but so many of them are self-righteous and hectoring, judgmental and superior. There is something profoundly sad about these commenters too. Because, whether they know it or not, they are the punchline in that famous old cartoon , “Sorry, honey, I can’t come to bed right now, someone is wrong on the internet!” ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, November 15, 2023
Only They Can Say
Gandhi was a saintly man, but he was not a particularly great father. He was too demanding of his children, too controlling, too quick to push them away when they were not exactly what he wanted them to be (which was impossible). It is sad that the man who was so kind and patient and forgiving, such a father figure to so many, could not be those things for the people who loved him the most , who most deserved that from him. But this is why we study the lives of the greats and not-so-greats–they provide us lessons, both inspiring and cautionary. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, November 14, 2023
You Can’t Fault Them For Your Hypocrisy
The author Rinker Buck (he has an amazing book called Life on the Mississippi where he travels the entire river in a homemade flat boat) remembers vividly what would happen when his father came home. We talked recently about what kind of feeling the sound of a parent at the door springs up for you . Well for him, it was partly fear–because he knew he was going to get punished , usually for unfair, contradictory reasons. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, November 13, 2023
Try To Get To This Place
The thing about parenting is that it’s always thrusting us into situations we have to deal with, we have to solve, we have to correct, we have to stop. Our kids aren’t listening . Our kids did something dangerous. Our kids failed a class. Our kids are drifting in a direction that worries us. Of course, there are some parents who are oblivious to all this , just generally hands-off. But the rest of us, who are just doing the best we can, struggle with these situations. We don’t want to yell, but that’s what we end up doing. We want to teach and instruct, but it somehow devolves into a power struggle. We fail to reach them, fail to teach them. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, November 11, 2023
Ryan Holiday And Adam Grant On Creating Your Own Momentum
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan speaks with organizational psychologist and book author Adam Grant on seeing things in the context of where they actually sit, learning to be pleased but not satisfied, current sports culture, perfect parenting and his new book Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, November 10, 2023
Do You Know Your Purpose?
What gives you the right? What’s your purpose on this planet? Why do you work so hard, why do you fight for the causes you fight for, why do you put up with all the crap you have to put up with in this life? ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, November 09, 2023
Beware This Energy
You think it’d be pretty non-controversial. Over on the Daily Dad Instagram (you should follow us!) we’ll post something about having fewer opinions and judgements when it comes to your kids. We’ll talk about loving them unconditionally –even when you don’t understand, even when you disagree. We’ll put up a video about letting your kids be who they are , not trying to make them into something you think they should be. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, November 08, 2023
How Much Of This Do You Give Them?
You give your kids a lot. You pay for everything. You sacrifice so much –parts of your career, your health, your hobbies. You drive them around, you build your schedule around them. And you give them your most precious resource –time, so much time. No one is questioning that. It’s indisputable. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, November 07, 2023
It’s The Worst Lie
“I do it all for them,” we say. We tell ourselves that’s why we’re getting on the plane, that’s why we’re spending another long night at the office , why we’re taking that big risk, why we’re starting that next venture. It’s for them, we’re doing it all for our family…those people we rarely see. It’s a good motivation to be sure, and it’s also a very flattering one. It’s ironically, a rather self-serving one too. Because by dressing our actions up in selflessness, we don’t actually end up thinking much about anyone but ourselves. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, November 06, 2023
It Will All Be Past Tense Soon
It sort of sneaks up on you, doesn’t it? For years, you literally fell asleep next to this person. They fell asleep on you. You were the last thing they saw, the last person they talked to, the one they begged for one more story , one more kiss, to do the blankets right one more time. And then suddenly, they’re like “Goodnight, Dad.” “Goodnight mom, close the door on the way out, will you?” ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sun, November 05, 2023
Ryan & Sam On Emotional Vaccination
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on the difference between expressing pride and relief, and practicing motivated intrinsically vs extrinsically with our kids. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, November 04, 2023
They Need This, Whether They Know It Or Not
Stoicism 101: Philosophy for Your Actual Life It’s an awesome, accessible, and practical two-week deep dive into philosophy that every parent (and even older kids) can benefit from. We’re teaching the Stoic secrets to success, resilience, and productivity, as well as how a Stoic masters their emotions (something useful for both parents AND kids!). The course includes 2 live Q&As with Ryan Holiday where you can ask all your Stoicism related questions. And you will have access to a private discussion board to ask questions, share thoughts, and interact with other people taking Stoicism 101. Why don’t you join us? This LIVE course begins in just two days on MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH. Sign up at dailystoic.com/101 . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, November 03, 2023
You Still Have Time To Avoid Those Regrets
On their deathbeds, fathers think about a lot of things. They think about the world they’re leaving to their sons and daughters. They think about how they parented. They think about the mistakes they made. They think about what they did right. They are warmed by the thoughts of their children, and, if they are lucky, they find themselves surrounded by them, the hospital bed serving as the final crowded table we have talked about here. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, November 02, 2023
Take Their Pain Seriously
We all have some version of this memory: We didn’t feel well. We fell awkwardly on our wrist. We hit our head. We told our parents, but they didn’t believe us …they told us we’d be fine. They told us we’d feel better soon. Then a few days later it turned out that we had scarlet fever or shingles. Our wrist was broken. We’d sustained a concussion. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, November 01, 2023
It’s For Parents Too
Aristotle wrote his famous Nicomachean Ethics for his son, Nicomachus. Seneca was given a philosophy teacher by his father. Cato too, was given the philosophical education his parents felt the promising boy deserved. Marcus Aurelius tried to give Commodus a group of philosophical advisors, and we can imagine that one of his great disappointments in life was that his philosophy and his example didn’t seem to rub off on his son. Stoicism 101 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, October 31, 2023
There’s Enough To Worry About Already
Being a parent is terrifying. Joan Didion’s famous line, as we talked about recently, is that once you have kids you are never not afraid . We are hostages to fortunes now, always worried that something could or will happen to our kids. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, October 30, 2023
Can Your Kids Say This?
You are not perfect. Nobody would argue that–least of all your kids. But are you better? Better than you were when they were younger? Better than you were a couple years ago? Better than yesterday? ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, October 28, 2023
Ryan & Sam On Solving The Problem First
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on the unexpected things in life we can’t prepare for, the anticipation of things often being worse and solving the problem first. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, October 27, 2023
You Need To Calm Down
Your kids are going to make bad decisions. They are going to do things you disagree with. They may well grow up into someone you don’t understand. That means calming down . It means trying to see their perspective. It means giving them space. It means asking questions and withholding opinion. It means offering help. It means providing resources. It means acceptance. It means unconditional love. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, October 26, 2023
You’ll Only Hear It If You’re Really Listening
It’s a noisy world out there… and most of us add to the din. We chatter on social media. We chatter on the phone. We chatter over email. Even as parents, we tend to do a lot of talking. There are all the things we tell our kids. The things we remind them about. The lessons we try to teach them. The books we read to them . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, October 25, 2023
If You Can’t Do That, Do This
Maybe someday, you’ll get there. It’ll probably be too late –your teenager will be grown up, the phase will be over, things will have calmed down. You know these things you seem to have strong opinions about…the tone of your kid’s voice. Whether the music they listen to is any good. How they want to style their hair. What they want to major in. Who they marry. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, October 24, 2023
This Power Corrupts
It happens so often that you hardly even notice it anymore. Your kids said they weren’t hungry and now of course they are. You told them to go to the bathroom before you left (they ignored you), and now they want you to pull the car over so they can pee. You knew they’d like this movie, you knew they’d have fun, you knew that other kid was trouble. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, October 23, 2023
What Do They Think When You Come Home?
Here’s a test of your own childhood: Imagine you’re sitting on the couch watching TV. You’re in the kitchen making a snack. You and a friend are hanging out upstairs. And then you hear the garage door going up. Or you hear keys in the front door. The car pulling into the driveway. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, October 21, 2023
Ryan And Wife Samantha Holiday On Being A Emotionally Matured Parent
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on starting with the idea that your kids are good inside, what truly is our role in helping our children instead of whats wrong, and more parenting tips from Dr. Becky Kennedy and her book Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, October 20, 2023
Our Kids Owe Us Nothing
Family is wonderful. None of us would be here, the writer Aaron Thier once put it, if people hadn’t taken care of us when we were small. Somebody birthed us, raised us, drove us to school, kept us safe. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, October 19, 2023
You Need So Little Now
We had this idea of what we wanted , needed our lives to be. How much money we wanted to make and through what career path. We wanted a new house. We wanted to go on trips. We wanted to live somewhere exciting and interesting. We wanted to do cool stuff, we demanded a lot out of life. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, October 18, 2023
No Need To Make Excuses
Yeah, some people won’t get it. Yeah, some people think it’s weak. But you? You know it isn’t. Which is why you make no secret about your other life–about your kids, about what being a good parent demands of you, how it competes for your time (and interest) at work. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, October 17, 2023
Every Step Comes With This
There was that moment after they were born that you found yourself looking forward to when they could crawl. It will be so fun, you thought…right up until they started crawling away and getting themselves into dangerous situations. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, October 16, 2023
How Long Can They Hold Out?
We all want better for our kids. We want them to have a better life than we had. We want them to have better parents than we had. That’s why we’re trying so hard. That’s why we wrestle with our demons–going to therapy, reading books, putting in the work. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, October 14, 2023
Ryan Holiday And Steven Rinella On Recapturing Important Moments With Your Kids
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks to Steven Rinella about the sense of wonder, respect & adventure for nature, spending time with family, and his new book catch a crayfish, count the stars: fun projects, skills, and adventures for outdoor kids . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, October 13, 2023
Teach Them To Put Their Energy Here
There is so much we want to teach our kids —so much that fathers are expected to teach their kids. How to ride a bike. How to swim. How to throw a punch. How to tie a tie. How to read . How to get up the guts to talk to someone. All of this is important, of course. All of this must be done. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, October 12, 2023
It’s Made You Stupid (But Better)
The last book you read was Goodnight Moon . The last series you binged was Harry Potter . You know more about the latest scandal at your daughter’s high school than the 2024 primary candidates. You’ve spent so much time in the sun at soccer games and baseball practice that you might be fried inside. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, October 11, 2023
This Is Everything You Ever Wanted
The two boys who look just like you. The daughter who lights up when you pick her up from school. The teenager who wears your old band t-shirts. The mischievous prankster who makes you roll your head back in laughter. The nerd who plays video games with you. The foodie who loves to cook with you. The kid going off to college . The one sitting behind the store counter of their first job. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, October 10, 2023
Are You Good At Hearing?
“She’s not good at hearing people,” the musician Mikel Jollett writes of his mother in his haunting memoir Hollywood Park . “If we tell her we’re hungry, she’ll say, ‘No you’re not. You ate earlier.’ If one of us says ‘I’m sad,’ she tells us that it’s not true, that we’re happy now because we’re with her.” ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, October 09, 2023
They’re Probably Just Tired Of This
When they’re grouchy, when they’re glass-eyed, when they’re stuck, when they’re making choices that don’t quite make sense …there could be many reasons why your kids are acting this way. They could be tired, as we’ve said before . They’re almost certainly hungry– as we said , that’s at the root of most problems. They could be depressed, they could be going through something and just not understand what it is. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, October 07, 2023
Ryan Holiday And Christina Pazsitzky On Making Kids Priority
“This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/dailydad and get on your way to being your best self.” On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with comedian Christina Pazsitzky on balancing work and life, and raising kids while being a good parent. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, October 06, 2023
You Were Given Something Special
You knew it that day in the hospital. You felt it the first time they threw their arms around you. You are reminded of it every time they do something decent and kind and good. You were given something very special. You have been entrusted with something very special. A bundle of genes and circumstances that will never exist ever again in history, that’s never ever existed before–something, someone totally unique and wonderful. Someone with gifts, someone with something to offer, someone who needs to be protected , taught and helped to become everything they’re meant to be. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, October 05, 2023
This Is Always The Goal
When your teenager sits you down to come clean to you about something…When you’re on vacation and wondering whether you should try to squeeze one more thing in…When your adult kid decides to get divorced…When you’re frustrated and resentful about something with your spouse and decide to have a talk, there is something you should keep in mind. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, October 04, 2023
It Can All Go Away In A Second
“This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/dailydad and get on your way to being your best self.” It’s fitting that one of the most important things you can do as a parent requires you to think about something that’s very nearly impossible for a parent to consider. It comes to us from Marcus Aurelius by way of Epictetus. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, October 03, 2023
This Is How To Hold Them To You
If you want to spend more time with your kids, as we said recently, the important thing is that you don’t drive them away . Yet that’s what so many of us do, isn’t it? Because we worry, because we care, because we can’t quite strike the right balance, our efforts end up backfiring. Think of John O’Connor’s mom whose smothering tendencies drove her son to move from California to Arizona just to get some distance. There’s no way she wanted that to happen, but she made it happen all the same. Think of Tim Hardaway Sr., whose drive to make his son a great basketball player , nearly made Tim Hardaway Jr. quit the sport altogether. As so many of us do to our kids in our own ways. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, October 02, 2023
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. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, September 30, 2023
Ryan And Wife Samantha Holiday On Being Challenged More In The Parenting Domain
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on stepping outside of our own upbringing and challenging the conversation more as parents when it comes to the freedom of our children. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, September 29, 2023
Store These Moments In Your Soul
This change we’ve made, this decision to become dads—it has uprooted everything. It’s like we were hit, suddenly, with a crossfire hurricane. The house is a mess. The schedule is grueling. There is never enough sleep , never enough time in the day. Even the cool, quiet dark is pierced by the shriek of a man who has stepped on a pile of Legos… and the shriek is coming from your mouth. Yet to be good at our jobs, to be good at this fatherhood thing, we need stillness . We need time to reflect. We need focus. We need calm to restore and reboot us. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, September 28, 2023
You Won’t Be Able To Get It Out Of Your Head
You weren’t wrong. You did have some experience on the matter. You only wanted what was best for them. You wanted them to stay in school. You didn’t want them messing around with something that could cause them trouble. You wanted them to be safe. You wanted to make sure they stayed the good and innocent and promising kid you used to carry around. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, September 27, 2023
Do They Get To See This Too?
They see you disheveled and groggy. They see you busy and preoccupied. They see you argue with your spouse . They see you burned out after a long week. They see regular old, normal you. But what about some of those peak career moments? When you sold your company. When you were invited to that special reception at the fancy place downtown. The first day of shooting for your new screenplay. When you were interviewed for that big morning show. When that raise finally came through. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, September 26, 2023
It’s Just Too Much For Them
The amount of choices we have today is not normal. Certainly, it’s quite new. When you were a kid–which was not that long ago–there were how many channels on TV? Even cable, which radically expanded that number, was still finite and nothing compared to streaming. There was no infinite scroll…YouTube only rolled out autoplay at the end of videos in the last decade. And this is only discussing what we watch–there is essentially an unlimited choice in what we listen to, who we date, where we travel, what we eat. In a recent episode of the Daily Stoic podcast, the filmmaker Casey Neistat was talking about how in his family, they’ve taken to watching movies on a big television in their family room or bedroom because the iPads were overwhelming and causing problems. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, September 25, 2023
This Is Something You Should Do
When they’re young, when they’re asleep, when they’re older, when you’re old, when you’re on vacation, after a big Thanksgiving meal, early in the morning before school, in the afternoons when you’re visiting their new family, there’s one thing you should do with your kids: We’ve talked about John Adams ( the great McCullough bio is at The Painted Porch ) and his fascinating relationship with his brilliant son John Quincy. Ryan Holiday dedicated a chapter to the value of walking in his best-selling book Stillness is the Key. You can grab signed and personalized copies here . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, September 23, 2023
Ryan And Wife Samantha Holiday On The ability To Handle Frustration
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on being the model for our kids and the ultimate skill on the ability to handle frustration. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, September 22, 2023
Don’t Let Your Curiosity Atrophy
By now, you’ve almost certainly lost count of how many questions you’ve been asked by your kids. From the moment they can talk, that’s what fatherhood is—answering questions. Some you can’t wait for them to ask, some you hope they’ll never ask (or ask their mom), some so absurdly, brilliantly child-like you never could have guessed they were coming in a million years. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, September 21, 2023
Are You The Splendid Or The Vile?
In 1940, as Nazi bombs rained down on London, an observer noted the contrasts between the “natural splendor and human vileness.” This idea (which inspired Erik Larson’s wonderful book The Splendid and the Vile ) would be born out over the next several months–not just the bombs falling in one of the world’s great cities, but also the human resilience and heroism in response to such villainy and evil. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, September 20, 2023
It’ll Come To You Later
In the moment, it seemed like a big deal . In the moment, you just needed them to understand your concerns. In the moment, the phone was ringing. In the moment, you were overwhelmed. In the moment, you were worried something might happen. In the moment, you had other plans. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, September 19, 2023
There Are Only Hard Decisions
Wouldn’t it be nice if everything was simple and straightforward? That’s what we’d like the job of a parent to be. We’d like there to be a blueprint that laid out exactly what we have to do and when we have to do it in order to guarantee that all our parental i’s are dotted and t’s are crossed. Of course, life isn’t remotely like that. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, September 18, 2023
This Is A Very Underrated Skill
There are parents who pay for music lessons so their kids can play an instrument. There are parents who tutor their kids in a foreign language. There are parents who teach their kids how to do all sorts of things–to start a campfire, to change a flat tire, to sew a button. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, September 16, 2023
Ryan Holiday And Paul Kix On Balancing Techniques And Being Self-Conscious
On this episode of the Daily Dad Podcast, Ryan talks to Paul Kix about enjoying the time we do have with our kids, while being self-conscious of what we call work during family settings. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, September 15, 2023
It’s Not Too Late To Make Improvements
F. Scott Fitzgerald knew the long term damage of being spoiled rotten. Not only was he a prime and painful example himself— as we’ve written about —but as he observed and studied the rich men and women of the Jazz Age, he saw how indulgent people quickly became the “careless” monsters that he portrayed in The Great Gatsby . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, September 14, 2023
You Can Give Them This
Your kids ask for a lot. Money. Patience. They ask for toys and games and attention. They demand chicken nuggets after you hand them the hamburger they told you they wanted. They ask for forgiveness , and they ask for trust. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, September 13, 2023
You Must Study The Greats
Study any great leader, artist, athlete, or parent, and you’ll find that they had a hero, a mentor, or a model. Some were lucky enough to study directly under that person. But for most, this studying happened remotely—by reading books, watching documentaries, listening to interviews, and so on. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, September 12, 2023
Take This Seriously
They’re scared there’s something under their bed or in their closet. They tell you they don’t want to go to school today. They tell you they feel depressed. They tell you that they think somebody hates them. They tell you that they hate playing this sport or practicing that instrument. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, September 11, 2023
You Always Have Five More Minutes To Give
They were traveling with their three-year-old son. They boarded their flight in Boston. They were heading back to Los Angeles after visiting family in Cape Cod. They could not have anticipated that just 49 minutes into the trip, their plane would be hijacked and driven into the south tower of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, September 09, 2023
Ryan And Wife Samantha Holiday On Taking Advice And Understanding Parenting Phases
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on experiencing parenting versus taking the advice and understanding the phases of parenthood. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, September 08, 2023
Give What You Didn’t Get. Forget What You Did.
As we’ve said before, each of us as parents have to try to give what we didn’t get as kids . The attention. The support. The understanding. Whatever it is, we have to try our best to be better for our kids. That can be encouraging them to become who they are –even if you don’t agree or understand. Or making sure to give them space to fail, while showing them support and encouragement to try again. Or maybe it’s choosing to be an ancestor , not a ghost. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, September 07, 2023
You Won’t Let Them Do This To You Anymore
Before, you were a glutton for punishment. You were tolerant. You were accepting. If the boss wanted it, if the customer needed it, if it could help you in your career, you were up for it. Long hours. Long flights. Calls at 2 a.m. Quick trips into the office on the weekends. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, September 06, 2023
Give Them A Little More Than Feels Safe
“This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/dailydad and get on your way to being your best self.” It’s scary. It’s especially scary for women, whose careers are almost invariably set back by having kids in their prime working years. But it’s scary for men too. Because when we say “work/life balance” what we’re really talking about is tradeoffs. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, September 05, 2023
Is This A Family Habit?
Even a hundred years ago, it was an argument at plenty of dinner tables. They didn’t have TVs then, let alone iPads, but families were still fighting about what was happening at meal time, what was allowed to happen at the table. Parents were still comparing themselves against what they thought the neighbors were doing, what kind of behavior they were letting their kids get away with. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, September 04, 2023
These Experiences Are Both Cheap And Rich
The pressure to do is one that rests heavy on all parents. We plan that big family vacation to Disneyland. We put everyone in the car and drive like a madman through traffic to make it to that special dinner on time. We put everyone in their least comfortable clothes and pose them for that awkward photo. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, September 02, 2023
Ryan And Wife Samantha Holiday On Normalizing The Parenting Journey
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on men having the conversation and creating the proper space for fatherhood. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, September 01, 2023
The Difference Between Schooling And Education
You send them to great schools. You make sure they do their homework. You drill them on their flashcards. You are saving for college. You are not going to let them set their sights low like you did, or maybe you won’t accept them getting into anywhere less prestigious than you did. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, August 31, 2023
You Won’t Regret This
There are a lot of things that don’t age well . Tattoos done late at night, on impulse. Trendy haircuts. Lots of things we think are important, that we chase hard will turn out not to matter much to us later. Things we fought about, argued about will seem silly in retrospect. Fears, you find, don’t age well either–the things we worry about will become smaller the further we get from them. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, August 30, 2023
It Is A Temple
The house is noisy . It is messy. It is expensive, and not easy to maintain. It’s filled with toys, and sharp Legos that you step on in the middle of the night. It’s dirty. It’s got one obligation after another. And yet it’s wonderful…so, so wonderful. The whole job of it. The whole mess of it. “We must think of ourselves as ministers and priests in our own house as in a temple,” the Stoic philosopher Hierocles once said, “chosen and consecrated to nature itself.” ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, August 29, 2023
This Is Your Advantage Now
Your career used to be the only thing you had. It was just you. You had your ambitions. You had as many hours as there were in the day. And you were willing to work–incredibly hard, do anything–to get ahead. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, August 28, 2023
You Can’t Do It For Them?
If you had an early flight, you’d get up no problem. If you had a chance to go see old friends or your favorite band, you’d stay up late without even thinking about it. But your kids wake you up early or cut into sleep? Ugh! You’re full of complaints. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, August 26, 2023
Ryan Holiday And Casey Neistat On Building Better Parenting Routines
“This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/dailydad and get on your way to being your best self.” Visit mylifeforce.com and receive $200 off your membership today. On this episode of the Daily Dad Podcast, Ryan talks to Casey Neistat about the discipline you have after having kids and building better parenting routines through stoicism. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, August 25, 2023
They Are Clay In Your Hands
Each of us, no matter how old or successful, has things we wish we knew how to do. We wish we could speak another language, or change the oil in our own car, or play the guitar. It’s not that we aren’t up for learning these things now—more so even than when we were young—but it’s hard to teach an old dog new tricks, as they say, even when the dog wants to learn. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, August 24, 2023
You Already Blew Up Your Life
“This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/dailydad and get on your way to being your best self.” Yes, it’s not good to be late. Yes, you’ve got places to go. You’ve got emails to respond to. You were hoping to get a workout in today. You were hoping to have a few minutes to relax on the couch. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, August 23, 2023
You’re A Hostage To Fortune Now
After having kids, every parent quickly realizes just how much less freedom they have . Your schedule is different. Your sleep is different. What you can watch on TV is different. Where you can live is different. Kids are, as we’ve said, a dose of unavoidable reality –a reality where you are indisputably, almost laughably not in charge. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, August 22, 2023
Guilt Is Not Productive
You hear people talk about “mom guilt”–the feeling that moms get for not being perfect, not measuring up to their own impossible standards, or the impossible standards they think other moms have. Of course, there’s dad guilt too–all good parents feel like they’re falling short, like they’re not doing enough, like they’re not good enough. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, August 21, 2023
This Is How They Can Be Great
Visit mylifeforce.com and receive $200 off your membership today. We talked recently about the Spartan who pointed out that it wasn’t right to say that “the better man won” at the Olympic Games. The better wrestler had won, he said. And it’s an important point: there are lots of winners out there who are actually losers. A lot of achievements that turn out to be costly victories because of the means used to achieve them. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, August 19, 2023
Ryan And Wife Samantha Holiday On Building Courage And Exploring Curiosity
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on the skill set that comes with exploring curiosity, and teaching our kids how to build courage. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, August 18, 2023
It’s OK That They Make You Crazy
Sometimes it’s good to acknowledge our biases. And one of the biggest biases in our lives is our kids. Not just a bias in the sense that we prefer them, but a bias like one of those ones that cognitive behavioral scientists point out that prove we’re totally and utterly irrational. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, August 17, 2023
This Is A Sign You’re Doing Great
We all sit up at night and wonder if we’re doing a good job , if we’re failing our kids, if we’re raising them right. We kick ourselves for what we feed them, whether we’re meeting all their needs, whether we’re learning…whether they’re learning. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, August 16, 2023
You Started Over
It doesn’t matter how many decades old you were. It doesn’t matter what you’d experienced, what you knew, how smart or powerful you were. A turning point was reached when you had kids. The Parent-To-Be: A Daily Dad Parenting Challenge ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, August 15, 2023
Give Into This
You have a very important job . You have so much going on. That’s the terrible part about having kids, for both men and women–for most of us, it comes right in the prime of our careers, in the prime of our lives. Can we afford to slow down ? To stop? Do we want to? ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, August 14, 2023
How To Think About Your Approach
It was Seneca who said that a wise philosopher doesn’t just study in their particular school of thought, but surveys widely, taking and absorbing ideas from any and all thinkers. He would say he read like a spy in the enemy’s camp, and that he’d quote even a bad author if the line was good. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, August 12, 2023
Ryan Holiday On Illustrating Better Values To Our Kids
On this episode of the Daily Dad Ryan talks on the importance of illustrating different versions of ourselves while away or on vacation, and how you carry those moments back to your actual life. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, August 11, 2023
They Need Their Space
Visit mylifeforce.com and receive $200 off your membership today. You have to give them space. Not just space right after school or soccer practice, as we’ve talked about, but making sure you don’t bombard them with questions or instructions. But your kids need literal space too. A room of their own, literally and figuratively. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, August 10, 2023
It’s Not A Pretty Picture
Imagine that you’re gone and able to look down now and see your kids from above. Or imagine that somehow you had magical powers and could see inside their heads and read their thoughts. What is it that you would never want them to witness? What is it that you would never want them to feel? ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, August 09, 2023
Kiss It While It’s Here
“This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/dailydad and get on your way to being your best self.” The thing about having kids is that it’s so fleeting. They grow up so fast , as we’ve said before. They are in a constant process of leaving you, leaving who they were. And scarier still, as the last few years have shown, is that life is unpredictable and even tragic. No one is here forever. Things can change in a tragic instant. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, August 08, 2023
You Don’t Just Get To Leave
Marriage is hard . Perhaps yours is especially hard. You both work very hard…or maybe only one of you works hard and that’s the problem. Perhaps one of you has worked very hard on this relationship and the other hasn’t. Perhaps it’s been a very long time, perhaps you’ve drifted very far apart. Maybe you’re bored. Maybe you’re just tired. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, August 07, 2023
These Two Traits Are Enough
There’s all these things we want to make sure our kids learn. We agonize over which school to put them in, what their grades are. We try to interest them in the right career , try to fire up their ambition. You push them to play sports, you teach them an instrument, you send them to summer camps. You read a thousand parenting books, you try all the latest strategies. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, August 05, 2023
Ryan And Wife Samantha Holiday On Setting up Flexible Boundaries For Our Kids
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on unavoidable reality, flexibility within their household, and creating space in your life for your love ones. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, August 04, 2023
You Come From A Strong Tradition
Today’s episode is brought to you by LifeForce. Visit mylifeforce.com and receive $200 off your membership today. If you’re in your 30s, then your parents raised you through the global financial crisis, SARS, the bursting of the tech bubble, and 9/11. They saw two wars in Iraq, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and Black Monday. If you’re in your 40s, they experienced that and the crack epidemic, the AIDS epidemic, stagflation, Chernobyl, and the final saber rattling of the Cold War. If you’re in your 50s, then your parents raised you through Vietnam and Watergate and the Berlin Wall. If you’re in your 60s, they raised you through the Civil Rights movement, the counterculture revolution, the draft, Vietnam, the Kennedy assassinations, MLK’s assassination, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. If you’re older than that… well, now we’re getting into even headier territory: the war in Korea, the Iron Curtain, the Second World War, the Marshall Plan, and god knows what else. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, August 03, 2023
You Can Make A Break
It’s been this way for a long time. Parents who ignored their kids. Parents who were too busy working, surviving, to be there emotionally. Parents who drank. Parents who pushed too hard, who asked too much. It’s been generations of this , it is the human story, written in the private lives of families, written in the history books, explaining so much of why we are the way we are. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, August 02, 2023
Take Them Seriously
Sometimes just a title, just a concept can be enough. Wherever You Go There You Are is a great book…and a great mantra. The Obstacle is The Way , and Ego is the Enemy were intended to have a similar effect. Even if you don’t crack the covers, just the concept is enough to provide a little guidance. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, August 01, 2023
You’ve Already Gotten The Gift
Visit mylifeforce.com and receive $200 off your membership today. Nothing keeps us up, nothing haunts us like the thought that something could happen to our kids . We dread even the good things that take them away from us, moving out, going to college, that job across the country. But there is, in this fear, a certain ingratitude, isn’t there? Not just for the present moment in front of us that we are neglecting, but for all the wonderful things we’ve already gotten to do–with our kids, with our spouse, with all of us together. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, July 31, 2023
It’s This Intention, This Choice That Matters
There are a lot of kids out there. There are fewer parents. Not just because most families have more than one child, but because unfortunately, tragically, not everyone who has a kid decides to be a parent . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, July 29, 2023
Ryan Holiday And Matthew McConaughey On Being Present and Measuring Happiness
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with actor Matthew McConaughey about his new course: Roadtrip – the Highway to More , the importance of being close to the ones you love and how “You Are The Toy” when it comes to your children. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, July 28, 2023
Are You Making It Easy To Be A Kid In Your House?
Seeing your own parents now, as an adult, is stressful. There’s a great Ram Dass line that the comedian Pete Holmes has used in relation to his own parents: You think you’re enlightened—go spend a week with your family. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, July 27, 2023
We Corrupt Our Children
We say we’re trying to raise kids who are kind, who help others, who are generous, who are not selfish, who are not cruel, who treat everyone equally, who hold themselves to high ethical standards. We say that virtue, that doing what’s right is more important than anything else, than money or success or getting ahead. But what do we show? What do we show? ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, July 26, 2023
You Don’t Have To Squeeze One More Thing In
Yes, it’s true you only get so much time with them. Yes, it’s true you flew halfway around the world for this trip, you took time off work. Yes, it’s true that it’s convenient, that it will only take a few minutes, and save you a lot of trouble. Yes, it’s true that it could be a special experience they remember forever. But you know what else it could be? ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, July 25, 2023
Can You Imagine?
In some ways, the ancient world seems so remarkably similar to ours. Marcus Aurelius has a passage in Meditations pepping himself up to get out of bed early in the morning . His name was Marcus–maybe your name is Marcus today. People liked sports then, they fell in love, they liked eating olives. There’s a passage in Seneca’s Letters where he talks about getting impatient as he waits for his table before dinner, and then sits frustrated as they stick him with a bad one. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, July 24, 2023
What Are You Optimizing For?
Health matters. Wealth matters. These things matter not just to us, but to our families. You only have to look around to see people who don’t optimize for these things and the way that ripples through not just their own life, but the lives of their children–children who see dad not taking care of themselves, mom who never quite realized her potential. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, July 22, 2023
Ryan And Wife Samantha Holiday On Self Awareness and Generational Impacts
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on a second round of doing less and seeing the results, and how self-awareness impacts our families in the end. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, July 21, 2023
You Never Know What You’re Comparing Against
You’re wondering if you’re doing something wrong because your kid can’t ride a bike. You’re wondering why they’re not more athletic…or more academic. You feel like a failure because they dropped out of college or because your divorce has been hard on them. And all of these feelings are more pronounced when you look across the street or across the parking lot at school and see other families nailing it in all these areas. Visit mylifeforce.com and receive $200 off your membership today. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, July 20, 2023
These Are Your 5 Choices
The hot button political issue of the day is “parental choice.” In Florida and D.C., Chicago and California, parents of differential political persuasions are fighting with their school boards, their librarians, their universities over a host of culture war issues and their right to choose what their kids learn about (or don’t learn about). Some of the issues are serious. Some of them are made up. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, July 19, 2023
All Their Dreams Are A Parent’s Fears
There is an inherent tension, a conflict of visions even, at the heart of every family. They want to live happy, fulfilling, interesting lives, and as the parent… you want nothing bad to ever happen to them . Sure, you want them to be happy and have fun, but most of all, more than anything, you want them to be safe. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, July 18, 2023
It’s All Bubbles
It was a timeless scene, one that might have happened in your house just this past afternoon. The kids are playing with bubbles. They are laughing and yelling. Blowing and darting around trying to pop them. Finding the most wonderful joy in the simple magic of soap and air. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, July 17, 2023
Have You Shown Them What Greatness Looks Like?
Do you know the story of Cincinnatus? He was a Roman general who had retired to his farm until he was called to rescue his country from an invasion. Made dictator in these desperate times, he had unlimited power, which he used to save the empire… only to immediately relinquish the power and return to his farm. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, July 15, 2023
You Can't Have It All
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. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, July 14, 2023
In The End, It Doesn’t Even Matter
Being two minutes late to school. The fourth discussion about cleaning up before company comes over. The grouchy tone. The broken vase. The mischief with their friends. The I told you to turn off the iPad and come help me downstairs!!!! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, July 13, 2023
You Can Have More Time If You Do It Right
It’s a good reminder, one that we can zip past too easily because we’re busy, because we have so much on our plate: You only get 18 years with your kids. It’s a reminder not just to soak in the time you have with them, but to make sure you’re really parenting in those 18 years. Because soon enough they’ll be gone, they’ll be living with someone else, listening to someone else. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, July 12, 2023
It’s Your Job To Help Open Their Eyes
Almost every talented and successful person can remember their introduction to whatever it was that became their thing. In Mastery , Robert Greene explores countless examples of this beautiful process by which some of the world’s most notable experts discovered their “life’s task.” He talks about Martha Graham’s first time watching a dance performance, for example, and he tells the story of the compass that Albert Einstein’s father gave him as a present when he was five years old: ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, July 11, 2023
The Words To Notice
As a society, we have very attuned ears for what words are offensive. There are words that religious people find offensive. There are the words that collectively we have decided are hurtful…as well as the words various groups are trying to get people to understand are potentially hurtful. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, July 10, 2023
You Are Never Not Afraid
It would be wonderful if it ever eased up, but it doesn’t. You worried when they were in the womb, and here you are all these years later, still worrying . Are they doing ok? Are they getting enough nutrients? Is something going to happen to them? Are they happy? ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, July 08, 2023
Ryan Holiday On Relaxing The Exceptions While On Vacation at Jackson Hole
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks about the straw that breaks the camel's back and relaxing the impulse to force things. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, July 07, 2023
As A Father, This Is Your One Job Today
Your job today as a father is to do one thing. It’s to read this poem, which dates back to 1895, and then to think about how to incorporate its lessons into how you raise your kids . Ignore the gendered language (it was written as advice to the poet’s son) because it doesn’t matter. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, July 06, 2023
Give Them This Ambition
We try to inspire our kids. We try to motivate them. We try to incentivize them. We want them to care about winning–that’s why we push them into sports. We want them to go to a good college–that’s why we reward them for their grades. We want them to succeed in this world–that’s why we tell them stories of the greats (that’s the idea behind The Girl Who Would Be Free and The Boy Who Would Be King , for instance). We want our kids to be ambitious. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, July 05, 2023
Of All The Things To Be Extra About, This Is It
It’s clear some parents take things too far . They push their kids too hard in sports. They push them too hard in school. They solve every problem for them, indulge every whim and desire, shelter them from discomfort and the slightest independence. They celebrate the most minor of accomplishments, they encourage the most unusual of behaviors. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, July 04, 2023
Don’t Tie Down Your Eagle
When a young Florence Nightingale began making moves toward volunteering in hospitals, her aristocratic parents were horrified. It had been difficult enough raising a precocious child. Now she wanted to debase herself with work below her station? They were embarrassed. What would their friends think? How would it look? Like a lot of parents with determined, independent children, they felt rejected. They thought her choices rebuked theirs. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, July 03, 2023
Great Is Not The Same As Good
We watch sports with our kids. That’s greatness, we say of some 4th quarter comeback win. They’re the G.O.A.T, we explain–the greatest to ever do it. We talk to our kids about the work that went into that success, the practice, the sacrifice. Maybe we even talk about the incredible rewards that follow such greatness. But it’s important that we also remind them where this skill sits in the overall scheme of things. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, July 01, 2023
Ryan And Wife Samantha Holiday On Being Present And Doing Less
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on doing less by saying no, physically being present and the cost of every opportunity. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, June 30, 2023
Nobody Wins A Battle Of Wills
Because you’re in charge, because you’re so much bigger and stronger and smarter, it’s easy to get trapped into a battle of wills with your kids. Don’t do that or else! Because I said so. Oh, you think it’s like that, do you? We put our foot down. We tell them how it’s going to be. We argue. Sometimes, at the very, very end of our rope, we lock them in their room. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, June 29, 2023
Nothing is Better Than This. Prioritize Accordingly.
Is there anything better than the feeling of your kid’s head on your chest? Them running towards you at pick up time? Seeing their name pop up as an incoming call on your phone? Them asking for advice? Them asking to show you something? ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, June 28, 2023
Where Are You Trying To Get Better?
Tom Brady has always been relentless about trying to get better. Trying to get his passes out quicker. Trying to get his spirals a little tighter. Trying to optimize his diet. Trying to recover from games faster. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, June 27, 2023
This Is All We Have To Do
We know the world throws a lot at our kids. We know it’s noisy out there and there are competing influences. We know they’re pretty forgetful too. These are kids that can barely remember where their backpack is…how are we supposed to communicate the most essential and important truths of life ? How do we get them to remember what we tell them? ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, June 26, 2023
How To Get Them Through Tough Times
One thing we know for certain is that our kids will go through things. They’ll have a crisis of identity, of faith, of social status. They’ll be overwhelmed. They’ll be confused. They’ll have questions. They’ll doubt themselves . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, June 24, 2023
Daily Dad And Austin Kleon On Parenting And Creativity
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with one of his favorite writers Austin Kleon on Parenting strategies before and after writing a book, and Creativity within your household. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, June 23, 2023
Where Will Your Kids Get This From?
We know that our kids want to feel good, feel safe, feel loved. We know they want to feel that someone is proud of them, that they’re talented, that they’re worth something. We also know that they’ll want to have fun, take risks, mess up, be crazy, and feel the pleasures of the world. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, June 22, 2023
They Must Be Diligent In Their Business
It matters far less what a person does in life than how they do it. An exploitative corporate executive might have an expense account and a fancy title, but we all admire the hardworking and selfless teacher more. And we certainly acknowledge that, whatever the differences in salary, one contributes far more to society. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, June 21, 2023
Teach Them To Be Kings
Unless you are currently in line for a hereditary throne, it’s unlikely your children will ever be a king or a queen. This is a good thing, as it seems like both a thankless and toxic job–to say nothing of its effectiveness as a form of government. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, June 20, 2023
You Can Give Them What You Wish You’d Gotten
Few of us felt completely understood as kids. At a young age, our parents didn’t quite understand what we were saying, what we wanted, how much we missed them when they were gone, how scared we were when we were alone. When we got older, they didn’t seem to remember just how hard it was to be a teenager, how overwhelming the world was, how different we felt from others, how behind we sometimes felt ( as we wrote recently ). And now as adults, we struggle too–maybe our spouse doesn’t fully get us. Maybe our parents are incapable of seeing or listening to us when we try to communicate about wounds we carry from the past. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, June 19, 2023
Everything Is A Test Of Your Priorities
We put our family first. That’s what we believe. That’s what we say. That’s the first commandment in the Daily Stoic Parenting Challenge . That’s the advice we give other parents. That’s effectively what we tell our kids too: You’re the most important thing in the world to me. And then almost every single day, in countless ways, we fail to live up to those words. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sun, June 18, 2023
Everything Marcus Learned From Antoninus
Happy Father’s Day to everyone! It’s pretty incredible how concise Marcus Aurelius is throughout Meditations . There are nearly 500 passages throughout, and rarely is a passage longer than a few sentences. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, June 17, 2023
Ryan And Wife Samantha Holiday On Setting Our kids And Ourselves Up For Success
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on setting our kids and ourselves up for success, creating space by doing less and building the confidence to remain consistent. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, June 16, 2023
This Is Why They Study
The point is not to get good grades. The point is not a good score on their SATs. It’s not about what college they get into. College is not about what kind of job they can snag. Success in school is not succeeding in school . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, June 15, 2023
They Don’t Learn Anything Important This Way
Think of all the stuff you know. The skills you have. The movie quotes you can throw out there mid-conversation. It’s interesting, isn’t it? You remember more from a two-hour movie than from the museums you were dragged to. You learned more from Wikipedia rabbit holes you fell down than you do from a couple decades in school. What’s that about? ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, June 14, 2023
How To Be Someone They Can Be Proud Of
Of course, her father would have preferred to be powerful, to be wealthy, to hold some prestigious position. He didn’t want to dig sewage canals or wait on entitled aristocrats. He didn’t want to be at the bottom of Rome’s social hierarchy. Nobody would choose that life. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, June 13, 2023
Their Feelings Are Their Feelings
Some of the things your kids think are ridiculous–products of their imagination or their fears. Some of the things they like are hilarious and weird–the products of their own uniqueness, products of just not knowing better. Some of the feelings they have are not your fault–again, they have imaginations and fears. Some of their feelings are products of mistakes you’ve made, flaws you have. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, June 12, 2023
Tell Them They Have This
Nobody would have wanted Joseph Kennedy to be their dad. He was an avaricious businessman. He cheated on his wife. He had his daughter lobotomized and sent away. He was controlling and manipulative. He saw his kids as extensions of himself. As we wrote recently , one of the only reasons Robert F. Kennedy turned out differently than his siblings is that he was mostly ignored and left alone by his parents, saving him from the ordeals of some of his brothers. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, June 10, 2023
Ryan And Wife Samantha Holiday On Grumpy Mornings And Parenting Strategies
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on screen time & the differences in parenting moods in the morning. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, June 09, 2023
Why Don’t They Come To You With Problems?
When your kids mess up, what’s your reaction? Do you freak out? Or are you calm? Do you make the situation better...or worse? Can you actually listen? Or are you halfway through a solution before they’ve even gotten two words of explanation out of their mouths? ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, June 08, 2023
All They Want Is This
It was a long time ago. It was in a pretty conservative place, in a less understanding era. And even if it wasn’t, even in different circumstances, no parent wants to walk in to see their teenager making out with someone in their room. But in this case, a mom had been stunned to find her daughter on top of the covers with her daughter’s best girl friend. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, June 07, 2023
At Least They’re Getting Paid For It
There’s something that strikes us as a little gross, the way politicians trot out their families to win elections, to humanize themselves or get sympathy when they screw up. There’s something exploitative about the way celebrities use pregnancy announcements or events in their kids’ life to get publicity. And there’s something plain weird about the way that some influencers turn their kids into content. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, June 06, 2023
You Don’t Want A Doll
Sometimes it feels like it would be easier if they just did what we wanted. If they could sit there for a second, as we try to handle something. If they could just pose for the photo. If they could keep the clothes we got them nice and clean. If they would play the role we hoped for, fulfill the dreams we have for them–go to the school, get the job we pick, have the wedding we plan for them in our fantasy. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, June 05, 2023
The Sign Of A Smart Kid
Education these days seems to be about signals. What did you get on your SATs? How many AP classes did you take? What schools did you apply to? What extracurriculars did you practice? Even some of the modern strain of political correctness, critics have said, is really just a way for people to prove that they are more educated than other people–that they were taught the right words for this and that. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sun, June 04, 2023
Daily Dad and Sam Gwynne On Mental Health and Parenting Advice
On this episode of the Daily Dad Podcast, Ryan talks to Sam Gwynne about new parenting advice, the youth building a community around mental health, and the pressures of matching the expectations. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, June 02, 2023
Are You A Rich Parent?
There are different kinds of rich families. There are families that have lots of money. There are families that have lots of time together. Sometimes these families are the same…too often they are not. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, June 01, 2023
How To Keep Them With You
We’re always losing our kids. In fact, we’re raising them to lose them–every minute, every interaction is building towards that moment when they will leave and live their own life. We’re raising them knowing that one day we will leave them for good too . Plus there is the fact that, as the Stoics says, we’re constantly changing , ceasing to become who we once were–and nowhere is this truer than with our children, who will never be 1 or 2 or 3 or 13 ever again. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, May 31, 2023
The Most Stoic Person In Marcus’ Life
Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius’ adopted father and predecessor, was not a Stoic. He didn’t identify as, nor did anyone call him, a philosopher. He left behind no writings. There are no anecdotes of him dropping in on lectures in Greece or studying under some guru. And yet, of all the people in Marcus’ life, Antoninus was the most Stoic. He was cool under pressure. He quietly went about his business. He was hard-working, self-sufficient, and never got worked up. He was a beloved leader. His mere presence put other people at ease. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, May 30, 2023
Do This For Them And They Will Never Forget
From his dad, Bruce Springsteen learned about shame, about broken pride, and struggling with demons that you can’t quite conquer. It’s an all too common story, unfortunately. The lack of a strong role model leaves a void that haunts a kid forever, even long after they leave the house. You can hear that pain in Springsteen’s songs today . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, May 29, 2023
That’s The Job
Once, on an imperial tour in some distant province, a woman darted out from the crowd and blocked the path of the Emperor Hadrian, asking for help with some now-forgotten issue. Hadrian tried to put her off. “I haven’t got the time,” he said, attempting to move past her. “Well stop being emperor then!” the woman shouted after him. Hadrian paused, turned back and helped her. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, May 27, 2023
Ryan Holiday And Tamron Hall Talk Daily Dad Book Release And The New Rules Of Sharing
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks to Tamron Hall about his new book release, more wholesome moments while in NYC, and how "Sharing Sucks" when dealing with two year olds. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, May 26, 2023
Do You Really Think They Did That On Purpose?
It happened again. Your kid screwed up. They did something stupid—from drawing on the walls to getting caught drinking. They hurt someone or they lied. They failed a test or broke something important. You’re pissed. You want to yell . But before we do that, stop and think: Have you raised a good kid? Have you taught them right from wrong? Have you taught them to care about other people and the truth? Yes, yes you have. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, May 25, 2023
The Things You Leave Behind
Plutarch recorded the story that Socrates went to the fanciest neighborhood in Athens and called out, “What are you doing, men? You are giving all possible attention to acquiring money, but small thought to your sons to whom you are to leave it.” As Socrates pointed out, money is just one piece of the legacy puzzle. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, May 24, 2023
Where Is All That Now?
Those white shoes your parents told you to keep off the grass, the khakis they wanted you to keep clean on Easter. The car they didn’t let you eat in, the walls they told you not to mess up with your posters. Where is all that now? The shoes are long since thrown away, the pants outgrown, handed down and then finally tossed by someone. The walls have been repainted many times over. Even the car, by this point, is probably a squashed metal cube in a junkyard–and if it isn’t, the person driving it has long since given up trying to make sure it’s ‘nice.’ ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, May 23, 2023
These Things Don’t Matter
However much they seem to be prioritized by other parents, by certain cultures, perhaps by your own parents, or your instincts, in the end, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter what color they dye their hair …it doesn’t matter how clean their room is …it doesn’t if they’re gay or straight or anything on any spectrum …it doesn’t matter where they go to college …it doesn’t matter what field they enter …it doesn’t matter how dark or strange or profane the music they like is …it doesn’t matter whether they abandon the piano ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, May 22, 2023
This Will Haunt You
We parents are collectors. We have the photos from the day they were born. We have the first drawing they did. Their first pair of shoes, the tickets to that first flight. We have their high school diploma and their baseball t-shirts. We have their trophies and ribbons. Our garage, we’ve said, is a graveyard of strollers and high chairs and bikes and boxes of outgrown clothes and toys. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, May 20, 2023
Ryan Holiday And CBS Morning Talk Daily Dad Book Release and Garbage Time
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks to CBS Morning in depth on applying stoicism, Garbage Time versus Quality Time & unforgettable family moments during a rainy weekend in NYC. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, May 19, 2023
You Don’t Have To Be Perfect. You Do Have To Do This.
None of us will be perfect parents . Our children will not agree with and understand with every choice we make–now or later. We are going to make mistakes. We are going to do things we regret. We are going to find out later just how the decisions we made affected them. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, May 18, 2023
Only Later Will You See This
“Only later,” Joan Didion wrote of her daughter, “did I see that I had been raising her as a doll.” Grieving, heart broken over the sudden and tragic loss of her family (detailed in the moving books A Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights ), she was almost certainly being too hard on herself, yet… Aren’t we all a little guilty of this? ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, May 17, 2023
It’s You You Know
They are so like you. So like their mother. They have the same affect. They have the same bad habits. The same hopes, the same fears you did when you were their age. This helps you be patient with them, helps you connect with them, helps you get them what they need. You understand . Or so you think. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, May 16, 2023
Now’s The Time To Get It Together
Look, when you were young, you could get away with it. You could spend more than you had–knowing you’d figure things out later. You could be selfish because you were the only person that really counted in your life. You weren’t expected to have it together, you were expecting to make mistakes and learn by trial and error. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, May 15, 2023
The Kind of Marriage You Need To Build
There is a famous line we have posted many times here at Daily Dad, one that’s always popular on Instagram whenever it goes up . The most important thing you can do for your kids, it reads, is love their mother. While the quote could be made to be more inclusive (for both genders and for modern, blended families) the overall wisdom is spot on: Kids thrive when their parents not only get along, but love each other. A good marriage is a critical part of a happy home. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, May 13, 2023
Daily Dad And Wife Samantha Holiday Talk parenting and Better Safe Than Sorry
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks to his wife Samantha about what their learning as parents and when to enforce the better safe than sorry rule. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, May 12, 2023
Teach Them This Grand Tradition
For thousands of years, humans have been expressing wisdom to each other through fables. Whether it’s Aesop or the Bible or Leonardo da Vinci or Hans Christian Anderson , smart writers have been packaging moral lessons in the form of quaint little stories or parables. And, for just as long, parents have been passing these fables onto their children. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, May 11, 2023
It’s Yourself You Should Be Worried About
There seems to be this concern, particularly on the right and from older generations, that kids are just way too soft these days. Everyone is sensitive. Everyone is easily triggered. Everyone seems to have some sort of mental illness or trauma. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, May 10, 2023
Quality Time Is The Easy Way Out
No vacation, no special experience, not even a family outing, just happens on its own. There is planning. There is time off work. There is the expense. There is the intention–to spend * quality* time together. And this is wonderful and it should be celebrated, soaked in when it happens. Just be sure not to give yourself too much credit because you booked a trip to the beach or got them excited for ice cream or the movies. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, May 09, 2023
Don’t Be So Nice That…
Nobody likes confrontation. Nobody likes having to enforce our boundaries. Nobody likes having to have an awkward conversation with their parents. Or the boss. Or the mechanic who is working on your car. But you know what we should like even less? Being burned out when we get home. Not having patience or energy left for our kids . Not having a shred of slack left to deal with the inevitable stresses that will occur in the course of picking them up from school, getting them dinner, getting them to bed. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, May 08, 2023
A Real Way To Be Happy
We talked recently about the fleetingness of happiness . The way that happiness changes and evolves, the way that it tends to ensue rather than exist as something to pursue. A happy family is not one where everyone is happy all the time, Ursula Le Quin said. No, it’s closer to something we cycle through. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sun, May 07, 2023
Daily Dad On Connecting With Our Kids Through The Obstacles Of Life
On this episode of The Daily Dad Podcast, Ryan talks in depth about empire, philosophy, and natural feelings when it comes to our kids, as well as the connection we make with them through the opportunities and obstacles of life. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, May 05, 2023
This Makes The Disruptions Worth It
These kids have changed your life. There are so many things you used to do that you no longer can. Traveling with no notice. Staying out all night. Sleeping on an airplane…sleeping in at all. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, May 04, 2023
Show Them How To Use That Energy
Joan Didion was bored. She was four or five. She was bothering her mother. She was asking for something to do. Her mother could have sent her away. Told her to stop . Told her to figure it out for herself. Instead, she went over to a drawer and pulled out a notebook. Here, she said, if you’re bored “then write something. Then you can read it.” The little girl was taken aback. “I had just learned to read,” she later explained, “so this was a thrilling kind of moment. The idea that I could write something–and then read it!” ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, May 03, 2023
This Is The Greatest Thing You Can Do For Your Kids
In The Second Mountain , David Brooks relates a conversation he had with a friend. “I don’t really know of many happy marriages,” the friend said. “I know a lot of marriages where parents love their kids.” In such a marriage, your son or daughter misses out on a powerful example. “One of the greatest things a father can do for his children,” Howard W. Hunter once said, “is to love their mother.” Our notion of what a family is has expanded since he made that remark. We have single families. We have divorced families. We have trans families. We have blended families and coparenting families. We have gay families and even poly families. To each their own. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, May 02, 2023
Like All Things, It’s A Process
Sure, you become a parent when you have a kid. It’s a biological thing. It’s a legal status. It’s codified on a piece of paper. But we all know that being a good parent is something much more than that. There is no one moment, one benchmark, one thing that makes you a parent–just as there is no single moment that one becomes a writer or an entrepreneur or a wise elder. Even ‘turning pro’ as the great Steven Pressfield has written , is not something that happens with the signing of a contract or being drafted by a team. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, May 01, 2023
You Can’t Do This For Them?
Think of all the things you’ve pretended to be interested in on a date. Think of all the hours you’ve spent at the office, what you’ve committed to and sacrificed to get ahead. Think of the bosses you’ve put up with at that job, the obnoxious colleagues. Think of the hours you’ve spent pouring over your finances, investing and saving and growing. Think of the time you set aside to go to the gym, think about the willpower you summon to slide into the cold plunge . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, April 29, 2023
Daily Dad And Scott Hershovitz On How Certain Parenting Behaviors Affect Our Children
Ryan talks to Scott Hershovitz about the Adventures in Philosophy with Kids, the common misconceptions about philosophy, how to apply philosophy to actual life, and more. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, April 28, 2023
Do You Really Care?
Do You Really Care? “A key point to bear in mind…You’re better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve. -Marcus Aurelius It seems like it’s really important to you. That the door not be slammed. That the chores be done a certain way. That everything be put away immediately. That feet go on the ground, not the furniture. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, April 27, 2023
Let This Keep You Going
Ryan Holiday’s latest book, The Daily Dad comes out May 2. Preorder your signed and numbered first edition before they sell out! There are going to be moments where we’re not sure we can keep going. We hit a plateau in our career. We hit a wall on mile 19 of our first marathon. Our marriage is struggling. Our attempt to lose weight has stalled out. Going back to school has turned out to be a lot more than we expected. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, April 26, 2023
Do Not Concede The Narrative
Ryan Holiday’s latest book, The Daily Dad comes out May 2. Preorder your signed and numbered first edition before they sell out! [COUNTDOWN CLOCK] None of us come from families that were perfect. None of us got everything we needed. Our parents were not perfect. Indeed, they may have been quite flawed. Perhaps they were not loving enough, understanding enough, accepting enough. Maybe they just weren't there enough . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, April 25, 2023
There Is No Time For This Anymore
Parenting doesn’t have to change a person. As we said recently , plenty of people remain the same selfish, immature, irresponsible people they were before they had kids. Which is why it’s worth making the distinction between having kids and being a parent. There are lots more of the former in this world than the latter. People who just have kids are still living the lives they had before. Parents live a different life. They become different people with different priorities, different capacities, different standards for themselves. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, April 24, 2023
This Is What Happiness Is
Too many of us have the wrong idea about what happiness is. We confuse it with pleasure or fun. We confuse it with some sort of permanent state or an accomplishment to pursue. But happiness is more subtle and supple than that. It is something that ensues , as the great Viktor Frankl says in Man’s Search for Meaning . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, April 22, 2023
Daily Dad And Wife Samantha Holiday On Parenting Is A Trip
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks to his wife Samantha about what their learning as parents, and the importance of making time for your children. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, April 21, 2023
You Will Want A Crowded Table
You Will Want A Crowded Table “What a great spectacle it is when a husband or wife with many children are seen with these children crowded around them!” -Musonius Rufus It’s helpful to sit back and really think about what parental success looks like. First, of course, it’s having healthy kids who survive to adulthood—that’s obvious. But second, when you flash way forward into the future, what is it? It’s that beautiful phrase captured in the title of the Highwomen’s hit “Crowded Table.” At Thanksgiving. On birthdays. At some summer house on the beach you all rent as a family. That is, having kids whom you get to see, whom you have a good relationship with, whom you want to spend time with . . . for the rest of your days. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, April 20, 2023
You Can’t Lose Track
Nothing takes up space in a parent’s head (or heart) quite like a kid who is struggling. “You’re only as happy as your unhappiest child,” the expression goes, and it’s true. If one of your kids is struggling–with reading, with adjusting to a new school or city, with becoming a teenager, with the divorce, with some health issue–it’s hard to focus or think about anything else. Even if you’re crushing it at work, even if one of your other kids just made honor roll or the varsity team. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, April 19, 2023
Melt Those Negative Feelings Away With This
You’re upset because you just blew it in that meeting. You’re kicking yourself because you meant to get up early and ended up sleeping through your alarm and missing a flight. You’re stressed about the business, you wish your marriage was better, you hate the way your house looks from the street. You can’t watch the news without being disgusted or outraged or worried. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, April 18, 2023
The Garage Is The Graveyard
You notice it one day–the garage is full. Of strollers no longer used–first the single, then the double and the jogger. The chair you and your spouse spent so many wee hours of the morning in, rocking the baby back to sleep in. There is the balance bike. Then the first one with pedals. It’s next to the trailer you used to strap them in and tow them behind your bike. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, April 17, 2023
Give Them This Grace
It’s important to remember that everyone was a kid once…and that no child is perfect . For instance, as a child Gandhi once stole some money from his brother. The boy was wracked with guilt, terrified of the consequences–from his parents, from the law, from God. Ultimately, he went to his father and confessed, laying out every aspect of his crime in great detail in a long, self-flagellating note, offering himself up for some extreme punishment he felt he deserved. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sun, April 16, 2023
Daily Dad And Daniel Lubetzky On The Steps To Being Successful
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks to KIND Snacks Founder Daniel Lubetzky about the importance of being kind, culture and values in a successful company & the steps on making the world a better place. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, April 14, 2023
You Must Seed This Habit
In one of F. Scott Fitzerald’s funniest short stories, “ Head and Shoulders, ” a certifiable genius falls in love with a showgirl. The plot and moral of the story aren’t relevant for today’s email—though the story is highly recommended—instead there is a little passage in it that introduces a concept that is worth thinking about: ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, April 13, 2023
Their Needs Are So Modest
“Your kids are not keeping score on your career. They just want a parent who’s emotionally present and supportive of them.” -Ben Stiller David Letterman was the king of late night. His shows ran for thirty-three seasons, making him the longest-serving late-night talk show host in the history of American television. At its peak, he was making something like $30 million a year, watched by an audience of many millions every week. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, April 12, 2023
This Is A Tricky Balance
There is a joke about a kid who, not liking the ‘No’ he got from one parent, asked the other, in order to get a ‘Yes.’ “Never come between your mother and I,” the father says, “we sleep in the same bed together.” ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, April 11, 2023
This is Who to Study
We spend a lot of time looking at the absolute worst parents. Not just because so many leaders and celebrities and artists seem to put their families absolutely last in order to achieve their success, but also because artistically, flawed and tragic figures quite naturally fill up the most pages and screentime. As Tolstoy opens Anna Karenina , all happy families resemble each other but unhappy families are unhappy in their own way. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, April 10, 2023
Do You Know? Do They?
Of course, this parenting thing is hard . It’s expensive. It’s an enormous amount of work and responsibility. And yet, we are the luckiest people in the world, aren’t we? Not just because, as we’ve said before , it took a black swan of black swans for any of us to be here, for us to even have our kids (especially those parents who struggled with fertility or adoption). We have been given an incredible gift with this opportunity to be parents. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, April 08, 2023
Daily Dad And Amy Morin On Overcoming Mentally Challenging Situations
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan sits down with author Amy Morin in talks on how to find agency in your everyday life, overcoming mentally challenging situations by gaining perspective, and the cost of success when it comes to parenthood. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, April 07, 2023
Here Is Love
Relationships are tricky. Especially the ones we have built the modern world around. Monogamous. Long term. An equal partner in parenting and in professional pursuits. Oh and our partner is supposed to be our best friend too. It’s a lot to ask of someone. Harder still when you throw in the craziness of kids and the current state of the world. But you deserve a partner like that, and they deserve a partner like you. We deserve happiness and fulfillment and love, together. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, April 06, 2023
Work with Them to Find Their Lane
“As we bring up our children, we have to remember that we are caretakers of the future. By improving their education, we improve the future of mankind, the future of this world.” -Immanuel Kant Adam’s father wanted nothing but for his son to go to college. John Adams wanted to do anything but go to school. He often skipped class to go fishing or hunting or to fly his kite. He didn’t like his teachers. He didn’t think he was learning anything useful. He had no interest in furthering his education. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, April 05, 2023
Why Would You Do Anything To Undermine This?
We all know that confidence is important. Most of us wish we had more of it. We spend a lot of time trying to build it up in our kids . By encouraging them. By reassuring them. By seeking out activities that will develop it in them. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, April 04, 2023
What You’d Actually Do Anything For
We say we’d do anything for our family. We’d like to think if we were tested, if we had to make some terrible choice, if it really was a matter of life and death, or if we were struggling to subsist, we’d come through. Would we though? ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, April 03, 2023
The Words To Notice
As a society, we have very attuned ears for what words are offensive. There are words that religious people find offensive. There are the words that collectively we have decided are hurtful…as well as the words various groups are trying to get people to understand are potentially hurtful. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, April 01, 2023
Daily Dad on Offering Dignity & Empathy While Finishing His Book
Ryan talks about being role models to our kids by showing respect, dignity and empathy for others aside from our personal opinions. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, March 31, 2023
Give Yourself Some Credit
It can be easy to question your parenting. To feel like you’re not doing good enough, that you’re not nearly enough. You see what other parents are doing, or hear what other fathers say they are doing, and it can seem like you’re the worst parent ever: The food you give them isn’t healthy enough, their education isn’t good enough, you’re not patient enough, you’re not dedicated enough. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, March 30, 2023
You Are So Lucky
The odds of any of this happening is literally incomprehensible. Some scientists have estimated that the chances of any one person being born are somewhere in the realm of one in four hundred trillion. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, March 29, 2023
It Should Change You
Everyone says that becoming a parent changes you . The responsibility. The stress . The unconditional love. The cuteness. This is big stuff. But as the comedian Tom Segura observes in one of his great Netflix specials, it’s wrong to say that it changes people–that’s just not the right language. It’s that having kids should change you. If it doesn’t he says, if you’re still the same person? If you have the same routines, the same behaviors , the same priorities afterwards? That’s a big problem! You’re doing something wrong! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, March 28, 2023
The Skill That Matters Above The Others
There’s so much we have to teach our kids . How to tie their shoes. How to drive. How to do math. How to throw a football and hit a baseball. How to put up and down the toilet seat. How to clean up after themselves. These are the practical skills of life. But they are worthless without other intangible personality traits–the ones we’ve talked so much about here: Kindness . Self-discipline . Work ethic . And most of all, courage . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, March 27, 2023
This Is More Important Than Winning
It’s good that your kids participate in sports. It gives them confidence . It keeps them active. It shows them the value of teamwork. It gives them the thrill of victory. These are all things we hope they’ll carry with them in life. That was Theodore Roosevelt’s view. He loved “manly sports.” Football. Wrestling. He took his kids, as we’ve said , on daily adventures, on long hikes and through obstacle courses, coming up with contests to keep it all competitive. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, March 25, 2023
Daily Dad on Being Grateful For The Time We Have
Ryan talks about the highs and lows of parenting and how to remain grateful for the time that you have with your kids. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, March 24, 2023
They Heard It From You
Have you ever heard your kids say something that just stops you cold? One of those remarks that instinctually makes you do a double take? It can be an unexpected curse word, or some preposterous old-timey expression, or one of those heartbreakingly earnest statements about love or happiness. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, March 23, 2023
You Have To Recognize This
Eva Amurri had a privileged childhood. Her mother is movie star Susan Sarandon, and her father is Italian director Franco Amurri. She spent her early days on the sets of blockbuster movies. She got to travel to beautiful places. She never had to want anything that could be bought with money. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, March 22, 2023
Infuse This Into Your DNA
Early in his career, the neuroscientist Andrew Huberman worked mostly in isolation. In his lab, he kept a list of the scientists he loved and admired. “I would read that list over and over,” he said. “I didn’t realize it at the time, but this is what is called introjection.” ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, March 21, 2023
Always Keep Your Eye Out
One of the great things about kids is that they keep you on your toes. Not just because you have to worry about them all the time , but because they give you so many more things to notice. As we talked about a long time ago , if you have a son that likes helicopters or a daughter that’s obsessed with birds, there’s suddenly a reason for you to be a lot more aware as you go through the world. There’s stuff for you to look for, to point to, stuff that you would ordinarily have a kind of adult’s blindness too. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, March 20, 2023
There Is A Last Time To All Of It
There’s a meme that features the characters from the movie The Sandlot that says “At some point in your childhood, you and your friends went outside to play together for the last time, and nobody knew it.” It’s not a quote that’s actually in the movie, but a line parents should understand just as well as their kids. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, March 18, 2023
Daily Dad on Pointless Power Struggles
Ryan talks to his friend and writing partner Nils Parker about the fine line between setting boundaries and getting upset about trivial things. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Check out the Daily Dad Store https://store.dailydad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, March 17, 2023
If You Don’t Believe In Them, Who Will?
In 1982-83, Jim Valvano coached the North Carolina State basketball team to a National Championship title. The Wolfpack was a mid-ranked team that entered the NCAA tournament looking like anything but a title contender. It was improbable that they’d win their first two games, and even if they did, no one in the world would have put even a dollar on them upsetting #2 ranked Virginia. No one, except Coach Valvano. He believed he and his guys could do it. Even when his guys didn’t. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, March 16, 2023
Are You Sharing This?
We’ve talked before about Jimmy Carter’s father. James Sr. was a flawed man, to be sure. He was strict and stern, often unaware of the way he loomed over his quiet, bookish son. The elder Carter was a figure of old time values –hard work, stoicism , decency–as well as old time vices– a smoker , a racist. He was also capable of moments of great kindness and he put his son on a straight and narrow path that the boy is still walking nearly 100 years later . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, March 15, 2023
You Can Be Safe Without Being Crazy
Sure, it’s a trend these days that parents are overprotective. We’ve got helicopter parents and snowplow parents and risk averse, paranoid parents. This is true and it harms kids . But you know what’s responsible for way more harm to kids? Parents who aren’t thinking about this stuff at all. Parents who don’t take basic safety precautions because they’re either not aware or not clued into very real, very common worst case scenarios. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, March 14, 2023
Don’t Let Them Be Alone With This
In the classic novel, Bright Lights Big City by Jay McInerney the narrator flashes back to the scene of his mother’s deathbed. Battling cancer, aware the end is near, she takes just enough pain medication to be uninhibited but still lucid. The walls between parent and child fall away. They talk openly of the things they never managed to broach in life without embarrassment. They talk about sex. They talk about love. They talk about their fears and worries. They shared their insecurities, their feelings of inadequacies. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, March 13, 2023
This Is The Greatest Form Of Love
You do many things for your children because you love them. You work hard to provide for them. You manage their education. You teach them the things they’ll need to know in life. You protect them–from others and themselves. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, March 11, 2023
Daily Dad On Keeping Your Kids Safe
Ryan talks about the stresses of parenting and how to remain grateful for the time that you have with your kids. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Check out the Daily Dad Store https://store.dailydad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, March 10, 2023
This Changes How They See The World
This is just my personality, we say. I just don’t have any energy when I get home from work, we complain. I’m in a bad mood today, that’s all. My parents weren’t any different, and I turned out ok. It’s just a stressful period right now. They’re young, they won’t remember any of this. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, March 09, 2023
Remember Who Sets The Curve
It can seem like parenting is a rather perilous thing, right? The statistics come at you like daggers to your heart–how many kids die each year in this kind of accident or that one, how many kids are injured doing this and that. The world feels so dangerous, so terrifying. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, March 08, 2023
Why Do We Chase This?
It’s pretty widely agreed that too much of anything spoils a person . We read the cautionary tales of the rich families whose inheritance wrecks generations of offspring. We hear the sad stories of brothers and sisters torn apart trying to distribute their parents’ estate. Perhaps we look back on a childhood of our own, one where we wanted little in the material sense, but could have used a mom or a dad who was around more , who was tired less, who seemed to be so important to other people that they missed how important they were to us. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, March 07, 2023
It’s A Bad Look
It never looks good when it comes to us via an ESPN headline or a viral tweet. Ja Morant’s dad getting into a fight at one of his son’s games. OBJ’s dad causing drama for his son’s team via Twitter. LaVar Ball making ridiculous pronouncements about his sons’ promise as athletes…and as entrepreneurs. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, March 06, 2023
We Are All Unprepared
In 1929, William Alexander Percy’s favorite cousin died. Then just a few years later, he lost his mother. Then his cousin’s wife died and he lost his own father. He had wanted to be a poet. He had hoped to spend his days traveling the world, practicing law, enjoying his family’s wealth. Yet the confirmed bachelor found himself compelled by circumstances to adopt his cousin’s three boys: Walker (14), LeRoy (13) and Phin (9). ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, March 04, 2023
Daily Dad On Saying No And Valuing Your Time
Ryan talks to his friend and writing partner Nils Parker about why it's important to say no to things that you don't need to do, how important the time that you get to spend with your kids is, and more. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, March 03, 2023
The Only Thing To Get Put Out By
Jimmy Carter was a pretty buttoned up guy. He was known, even under the stress of the Oval Office, to be remarkably poised. The angriest an aide ever saw him though, came over a last minute scheduling change. It wasn’t the poor communication that bothered him. It wasn’t that he was going to be late–something the ever punctual Carter despised. It was because the secretary had bumped Carter’s plans to take his daughter to the circus. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, March 02, 2023
Don’t Get Caught Hanging Your Head
It’s one of the most beautiful and haunting songs ever recorded. The version written and recorded by Sting is pretty good, but the Johnny Cash version ? It’s like he was meant to put that track down. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, March 01, 2023
Beware The Power You Wield
The things we say to our kids matter. The tone we use, the rules we enforce, the standards we hold them to–they feel it. They feel it profoundly. Kids always have and always will. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, February 28, 2023
Why This Is So Terrifying
As we said recently, the wonderful thing about parenting is that it opens you up. It expands your heart to a new capacity, a level you didn’t think possible. The problem, of course, is just how exposed this makes you feel. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, February 27, 2023
They Learned This Lesson For You
The comedian and actor Rob Delaney’s son Henry was healthy and beautiful, but then he got sick. Delaney and his wife Leah didn’t know what to do, so they took Henry to the doctor. It took a long time but eventually, the doctor found that Henry had a brain tumor. They operated on it, and he got better. But sadly the tumor took Henry’s life at just two years old. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, February 25, 2023
Daily Dad and David Rubenstein on Raising Happy and Healthy Kids
David M. Rubenstein is a successful entrepreneur and an innovative philanthropist. He is the co-founder and co-chairman of The Carlyle Group and host of “The David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations” on Bloomberg TV. He is the the author of several books, including the best seller How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers, and most recently, How to Invest: Masters of the Craft. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, February 24, 2023
Meet Them While There Is Still Time
In his book, The Vanishing American Adult , then-U.S. Senator Ben Sasse pondered what might strike a person from the distant past as odd about our modern society. Aside from the technology, he said, they’d notice the extreme age segregation. Invariably today we spend time almost exclusively with people our own age. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, February 23, 2023
Maybe You Were Saved
If you’re one of those kids who didn’t get everything you needed from your parents–and let’s face it, pretty much everyone is–you probably carry something with you as an adult today. Maybe you’re angry or sad. Wounded or resentful. You wonder what could have been, who you’d be, if they’d been around more…or been more patient …or loving… or understood you . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, February 22, 2023
Teach Them Real Class
Of course, we want our kids to have class. That is to say: A strong sense of decency and taste, restraint and grace, with a set of values that have become virtues by virtue of having consistently lived those values. The question is: How do you teach this? How do you pass on this sort of ineffable, effortless sense of self? ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, February 21, 2023
You Must Make Time For This
When we have to go to the doctor, we make the time. If the check engine light comes on in our car, we get it to the shop. When we have some lucrative business opportunity, we find time to make it happen. Kids take up so much of our time, but there’s room–we always manage to make room. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, February 20, 2023
We Must Show Them That We Mean It
When she was 68 years old, Jimmy Carter’s mother joined the Peace Corps. She asked to be sent somewhere far away where they could use a nurse’s help, and she ended up in India for 21 months. She had spent nearly all of her life on a small farm in rural Georgia…and now she was thousands of miles away in the most foreign of lands, volunteering, serving others. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, February 18, 2023
Daily Dad on the Winter Storms and the Obligations of Success
On today's episode Ryan talks about a recent winter storm that came through Texas, how him and his family thought about it, how success changes your obligations to the common good, and more. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, February 17, 2023
Try To Be All In
Have you ever watched someone sit and play with a little kid for hours? Like totally engrossed, never checking a phone, never rushing, never getting bored or frustrated, never pulling the adult card? Maybe your spouse can do this, maybe you’ve seen a grandparent do it, maybe you’ve pulled up and watched the teachers at a daycare do it (or maybe you’ve watched them calmly, quietly put 10 kids down for a nap at the same time). ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, February 16, 2023
Do You Want To Lose This?
We talked recently about the costs of selfishness . Ego, narcissism, self-centeredness–it’s not only a recipe for inevitably overreaching in the professional world, it is a death sentence to personal relationships. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, February 15, 2023
Never, Ever Forget This
Maybe you had a rough day with the kids. Or a tough day at the office. It’s in one of those moments you doubt whether you’re doing enough of this or that, or you’re left feeling jealous or unsatisfied. It’s in these moments you need to remember: “There are people who have seen their children die,” Mary Laura Philpont writes in her book Bomb Shelter . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, February 14, 2023
This Is Better Than I Love You
Of course, we try to tell our children we love them. Sometimes they receive it. Sometimes they roll their eyes. Sometimes–depending on how we grew up and what we saw from our parents–even just saying ‘I love you’ can be difficult or a stretch for us. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, February 13, 2023
This Is What Is Making You So Stressed
Parenting and stress seem to just go together. Anxiety, concern, they follow too. There’s always something we are tracking, something we’re worried about. If our son’s grades don’t get better, it could mean he won’t get into college. It could be confirmation of that learning disability we’ve been told about. Your daughter was tired yesterday and now you just heard her sneeze–is she sick? Oh no, we cannot afford to get sick right now. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, February 11, 2023
Daily Dad On 'The Last Time'
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad Ryan talks about how as parents we can get so caught up in raising the kids we forget to appreciate the little things. There will be a last time you get a call from the principal, the last time you pack a lunch, or drop them off at school; everything must come to an end. It is important to remain present and make the most of these moments, you never know when it will be the last time. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, February 10, 2023
They Must Learn Through Trail And Error
You can’t prevent your kids from making mistakes. Nor, honestly, should you really want to. You have to let them learn on their own. And you have to give them the space to do it . Knowing that you’ve instilled the character, the awareness, and the willingness to ask for help that they will need in order to bounce back from the mistakes they will inevitably make. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, February 09, 2023
Point Them Towards What They Can Change
We’d love to give our kids everything they want. We’d love to fulfill every wish and eliminate every inadequacy. We can’t. So we must focus on what we control, we must point them to what they control, what they can change, where their effort matters most. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, February 08, 2023
What Are You Teaching Them?
We can tell them now, we can tell them early, that we’d rather them develop themselves as people, find their project, find their people , than optimize themselves to win such a deranged competition. And we can remind them of that timeless Bible verse–the one that asks what good it is to gain the whole world (or anything)if you lose your soul in the process. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, February 07, 2023
It's Still Hard For Them
The good thing is that our kids are smarter and more resilient than we think. With time, they’ll come to understand that hey, we struggled with our issues too as parents, as adults. The fact that we weren’t always there or perfect? Hopefully they’ll realize and come to accept that it wasn’t because we didn’t love them. It was because we’re human! Just like them. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, February 06, 2023
So Little Is Left Over
Even when our kids get up early, we have, at most, a couple hours with them before school and work. Then after school or sports and work, we have what, maybe a couple more hours? Soon enough they’re asleep. It’s pretty sad when you think about it…which is probably why we don’t think about it. So little time is left for us. Don’t waste it. Seize it. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, February 04, 2023
Daily Dad And Scott Hershovitz On Being A Model Parent
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan sits down with Scott Hershovitz to discuss how we can become model parents. Rather than getting angry with our kids for acting out we can identify where our kids learn this behavior or why they're behaving in such a disruptive manner, ultimately this leads to our kids teaching us a lot about ourselves. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, February 03, 2023
This Is All That Matters
We need to deliberately let all the craziness and mundane tasks of life to fall away. Because all of those things that we allow to stick around, even if just in the background or further down the list, will inevitably steal from those few things we care about most. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, February 02, 2023
They Already Doubt Themselves Enough
It’s not that you don’t think they’re great or talented. You’re a big fan . You always have been. You know they can do it. You just worry. You just want them to be safe. You just want them to find what is actually best for them. Maybe they can make it. Maybe they can’t. All we can say for certain is that they’ll never know for sure if we don’t let them figure it out for themselves and support them along the way. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, February 01, 2023
Be More Than A Hero
From the outside, we can admire people. We can acknowledge and be inspired by their heroism, but we must still strive to learn from their failure to be great and be more than a good parent at the same time. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, January 31, 2023
You're Stretched To A New Capactity
There’s no question that becoming a parent has stretched you beyond limits you ever thought possible. You are busier now than you ever were in your life. You manage to survive on less sleep than you ever thought humanly possible. You have been stressed, worried, upset in new ways and to new heights. Your kids have given you so much. They have quite nearly given you a heart attack on many occasions…but they compensate for this by giving you a much bigger heart. They stretch you, they expand you, they make you better. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, January 30, 2023
How Have We Gotten So Far From This?
Remember: A little fellow follows you . Your kids are always watching. They’re the ones you should want to impress. They’re the ones you should never want to let down. They’re the ones you’re not only fighting for, but whose standards—whose natural admiration and love—you should always be fighting to live up to. They are the only ones whose opinions matter. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, January 28, 2023
Daily Dad On Delegating Time For A Successful Home Life
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan sits down with writing partner Nils to talk about the work life time management and how to balance their expectations to ensure they can get the most out of the moments they spend with those they love most. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, January 27, 2023
It's A Lie And An Excuse
A little fellow follows you , remember that. The decision to shut down emotionally doesn’t just impact you. The decision to overcommit. The decision to be gone. The decision to hold onto resentments. The decision not to take care of yourself. The decision to hold them to unfair standards, to belittle or to be mean. All of this matters. It matters more than anything. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, January 26, 2023
Give Them A Minute!
You missed them while they were away at school. You want to hang out with them. You want to be an attentive, interested parent . You want to make sure they’re alright–that there isn’t something they need to tell you. Let them decompress. Give them something to eat . Put on some music. Just be there . If you want to talk, maybe share with them something from your day or your life. Let them come to you. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, January 25, 2023
The Block Doesn’t Always Chip
We want such big things for and from our kids. Because we know what they’re capable of. Because we have worked so hard to provide a better childhood for them than we had. Because we know the mistakes we made in our lives and want them to learn from them–to pick up where we left off. We also know what has served us well, what we are capable of. But the problem with that is this: Our kids are not us . It’s that simple. As much as they are like us in so many ways, they are their own people . They are so different from us. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, January 24, 2023
Does It Have To Be Hard To Be Your Kid?
Think about the life of Randolph Churchill, who we have talked about. Think about the life of Claudia Williams, the daughter of Ted Williams, who we’ve talked about. Think of Commodus , the son of Marcus Aurelius. These children were privileged in many ways—they had wealthy, powerful parents who gave them access to so many wonderful things. But surely if you’d have asked them, they’d have told you * just how hard it was* to be the child of someone like their parents . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, January 23, 2023
It's Always Been Like This
Out in the street, the kids are playing and screaming. They’re throwing balls and sharing toys. It’s noisy and insane, sweet and overwhelming. It’s always been crazy and hard and baffling. Yet people have figured it out, they’ve survived. And so will you. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, January 21, 2023
Daily Dad On Making The Most Of Your Time With Your Kids
On this weekend of episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan shares a compilation of emails that help parents understand the importance of our time with our kids. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, January 20, 2023
You Must Learn To Measure Life On Different Terms
Douglas MacArthur seemed relatively accepting of his quiet, sensitive boy. It was undoubtedly MacArthur’s dream to see his son graduate from West Point and enter the service. That was never going to happen. So MacArthur had to adjust, like all fathers he had to accept “undeniable reality,” —something that could not have been easy for a man used to getting his way on a global scale. ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail 🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these lessons at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/
Thu, January 19, 2023
Here's What Happens If You're Selfish
Each of us has dreams and demons, goals and baggage. Sometimes in equal measure, sometimes not–and not always in favor of the good stuff. We have trauma from our own childhood, things that we’re hooked on, bad habits, personality flaws. We have issues . At the same time, we have big, new, important things we want to do in this life–which we only have one of by the way. ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail 🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these lessons at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/
Wed, January 18, 2023
Ask Them This Question Every Day
We’re always asking our kids questions. How was school? How did baseball practice go? Did you stay out of trouble? What did your teacher say about your math grade? Did you have fun with your friends? We ask these questions because we want to have something to talk about . We ask these questions because we’re concerned. We ask these questions because the answers matter to us. Our kids realize this. ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail 🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these lessons at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/
Tue, January 17, 2023
If Not Them, Who?
We do our best to be good citizens. Good colleagues. Good people. We don’t freak out like some demonic Karen in a viral video when something goes wrong at the supermarket. We follow the law. We help others when they need it. We try to practice the golden rule. Good. Good. Good. ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail 🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these lessons at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/
Mon, January 16, 2023
It's Invisible Work
It would be nice if the work we did at home was as clear as the work we do at, well, work. At the office, the number of hours matters. At the office, you have metrics to hit. You have a quantifiable output. You have someone who can tell you–the boss, your customers–whether you’re doing a good job or not. But at home? With our kids? It’s so much trickier. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sun, January 15, 2023
Daily Dad On Demonstrating Valuable Lessons While On Vacation
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan shares a story from his Family trip to Hawaii over the holidays! Through this experience Ryan draws a lesson on the importance of Justice. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, January 13, 2023
What Schools Are Your Kids Attending?
What schools are your kids attending? No, not what college or prep school. This is more of a “school of life” question. Charis Denison, a relationship development and organizational specialist who works with a lot of young people, recently observed “At one time or another, every young man will get a letter of admission to ‘dick school.’ The question is, will he drop out, graduate, or go for an advanced degree?” ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, January 12, 2023
Why You Can’t Compare Yourself To These People
These apps are designed to make you feel vulnerable, hook you, and sell you stuff. While that is great for the social media platforms, it’s not so great for your family. And it’s definitely not great for your mental health. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, January 11, 2023
It's Afternoon Now
Don’t be sad. Don’t be delusional. Adjust. Accept. Appreciate. Because, as Lindbergh perfectly puts it, “in our breathless attempts we…miss the flowering that waits for afternoon.” ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, January 10, 2023
Have Them To Teach Them
If we want kids who know their own space, know what’s appropriate and what isn’t, what will hurt other people and what brings a smile to someone’s face, then we’re going to have to show them . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, January 09, 2023
Why Not Get Better Here?
If the Stoics have taught us anything it is that we should focus only on the things we can control . We can control what kind of parents we are. We cannot control the outcome of our actions, of course, but we can control how we talk to our kids , how we raise them , how we discipline and reward them , what we expect from them , and what they can expect from us . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, January 07, 2023
Karen Duffy on Parenting With The Hand Your Dealt
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad Podcast, Ryan sits down with former actress and stoic Karen Duffy to discuss her latest book stoic inspired parenting book Wise Up and the importance of valuing people and relationships. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, January 06, 2023
Remind Yourself What Love Is
There are few scenes in literature that capture love and loss and the terrifying but also inspiring moment of becoming a father quite like the end of A Farewell to Arms . And nothing quite captures love like this quote from it: “When you love, you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.” ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, January 05, 2023
Let Them Write Their Own Script
It seems like it would be easy but as we have found out in the course of our own lives, it’s one of the hardest things in the world: Figuring out who you are, figuring out what your purpose is. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, January 04, 2023
Put Your Focus Here
You’re at the store and you see a parent talking rudely to their kids. Or letting them run around like it’s their house. You read some news story about some terrible parenting strategy that drives you nuts. Or maybe it’s closer to home and you don’t like how much time your spouse is spending on their phone . You know what you should do about this? You should focus on being a better parent yourself. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, January 03, 2023
This Is What You'll Remember
It won’t be the recitals. Or the graduations. Or the expensive trips to theme parks. Or the birthdays or the Christmas mornings. When you think back on your life, the moments that fill you with nostalgia and love will be rather ordinary. We are just there. We don’t need it to be anything other than what it is…which is ordinary and extraordinary at the same time. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, January 02, 2023
Is This Really Something To Be Proud Of?
Some people’s houses look like they don’t even have kids. You see it on the Instagram accounts of the picture-perfect influencers. Or you go to a dinner party at a house that seems way nicer than yours. Where is the evidence of the kids? The mess. The piles of toys. The smudges on the windows and the walls. You know these people have kids, but somehow it looks like regular people live there instead of feral animals. Maybe this makes those parents proud. Maybe this makes you jealous or insecure. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, December 31, 2022
Daily Dad On Maintaining Your Kids Presence
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan sits down with writing partner Nils to talk about how parents can get things wrong when it comes to maintaining a relationship with their kids and how they can end up driving them away when all they want is their presence. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, December 30, 2022
Your Kids Can Have A More Grateful Outlook
It’s important that you teach your kids about gratitude . Because it’s so easy to take life, to take the gifts we have been given, for granted. Especially when we’re stressed, when you’re a kid with homework or acne or a room to clean. This is a wonderful time to be alive. Even if it wasn’t—it’s amazing that any of us are alive at all. The odds are astronomically small that we are. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, December 29, 2022
Everyone Needs This
Regardless of what some people say, it never hurts to give your kids a positive word, or to tell them that you love them and are proud of them. In fact, that’s our job. Our job is to encourage and support and believe–not minimize or cut down to size. It’s to help them be what they are. They need that, from you most of all. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, December 28, 2022
How Much Do You Want It
Every parent knows that kids make a great excuse. When people ask us to do something we’d rather not do, if we need a way to get out of a commitment we mistakenly agreed to, we have the perfect out: Sorry, something came up with the kids. Sorry, I can’t, I have to grab the kids. If we’d actually wanted to, we’d have found a way. But they don’t know that! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, December 27, 2022
Demand The Best Of Yourself For Them
This is that weird time of year where we start to think about how we want the following year to go. We start thinking about what we call “resolutions”—the promises we make to ourselves about what we’re going to do in the next 12 months. Why is it that we wait to demand the best for and of ourselves? ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, December 26, 2022
They're Not Trying To Give You A Hard Time
It can sometimes feel like everything is falling apart. No one is behaving. No one is listening. Everyone is yelling. Causing problems. Making messes. In exasperation you find yourself shouting What is going on? Why is everyone giving me such a hard time today? ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sun, December 25, 2022
This Is A Gift You Can Give Yourself (And Your Family)
Here on Christmas, and throughout this holiday season, take some time to think about what it will take to have that. Think about the choices you’re making with your kids now so that they’ll choose to fly from their homes to yours when they’re older and have families of their own. Think about the gifts you have to give them today—your love, your support, your presence—to receive the gift of a crowded table in the future. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, December 24, 2022
Daily Dad On How To Form Good Habits For The New Year
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad Podcast Ryan shares a compilation of his best thoughts on how to form the best habits from this past year. Ranging from journaling, rules and expectations, and how to cultivate good physical and mental health, Ryan provides these excerpts to help prep you for what parenting in 2023 will bring you. Sign Up For New Year New You Challenge Here ! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, December 23, 2022
Those Impactful Moments Can Come Any Time
When we think teacher, we think classroom. When we think leader, we think the corner office or the lectern or a general in front of their troops. But the truth is that a teacher can do their job anywhere and in many forms, just as a leader can. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, December 22, 2022
We Are All The Same
Nobody wants to be like their parents…or like the adults they remember growing up. The ones who were clueless…or uncool. The ones who seemed to forget what it was like to be a kid. The ones who rhapsodized about the good old days and the way things used to be. But here’s the cold hard truth: You’re not different. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, December 21, 2022
This Is Criminal
You weren’t the parent you wanted to be in 2022. You weren’t the person you wanted to be in 2022. Almost no one was. And anyone who thinks or says they were is lying. None of us were perfect. We all screwed up. We all back-slid. We all picked up bad habits. And as a parent, that means our kids picked up those bad habits too. Because, as we’ve said before, behavior is the language of children . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, December 20, 2022
This is Why They’re A Mess
Nobody’s listening. Everyone is grouchy. Grades are slipping. Siblings are fighting. What is happening , one spouse says to another. Why are the kids such a mess today? The answer is there in plain sight: The kids are a mess because *things are a mess .* ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, December 19, 2022
Don't Merge Like This
We encourage our children . We want to set them up to succeed. But we can’t merge their glory into our own . We can’t let them think they have to impress us, make us proud, or worry that they have let us down or failed us. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, December 17, 2022
How Past Grievances Affects Parenting With Susan Cain
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan speaks with Susan Cain about parental relationships, not just with their children but their own parents and how past grievances can influence your role as a guardian. Susan Cain is a long time friend of Ryan, she also is the author of the bestsellers “ Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverted Kids ,” and “ Quiet: The Power of Introverts in A World That Can't Stop Talking ,” which is in its eighth year on The New York Times bestseller list and was named the best book of 2012 by Fast Company. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, December 16, 2022
This Is The Best Competition
Way too many parents are competitive . They see the car their neighbor is driving and they want to get a better one. They hear that a friend’s kid got into a fancy school and they think, “My kid is smarter. I’ve got to get them in there too.” We want to make more money than other parents, we want our kids tobeat other kids in sports, we want our kids to be cuter than other kids, we want our houses to be cleaner. Needless to say, this is mostly toxic and negative. Where should we channel it? 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
Thu, December 15, 2022
Show Them How To Be Beautiful
Epictetus said that the root of beauty was beautiful choices. “If your choices are beautiful,” he said, “so too will you be.” It’s simple and it’s true. You are what your choices make you, nothing more and nothing less. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, December 14, 2022
Where Did They Learn It From?
We’re rightfully disappointed when we hear about a kid getting caught cheating. Whether it’s on a test or a violation of some NCAA policy, it’s good that we take these things seriously. The problem, of course, is the lack of self-awareness– on our parts. We must ask ourselves where did they learn this from? ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, December 13, 2022
Everyone Has Something Going On?
We all know how hard our home life is, we know how it affects us–weighing on us, distracting us, making us act out. Well, we can safely assume that the same is true for everyone else. So we should then act with the corresponding empathy and understanding. Everyone is going through something . They don’t need more crap from you. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, December 12, 2022
Soon It Will Be Gone
It’s a haunting thought that, in the busyness and day-to-dayness of parenting, we can so easily forget the little things. The chubby hands of our toddler. The squeaky voice of our teenager. The clear skin of our little boy or girl. The days when we could easily pick them up and carry them. The days when they needed us to drive them around or make their Halloween costumes. That will soon be gone. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sun, December 11, 2022
Managing Screen Time and Getting Kids Outside With Steven Rinella
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad Podcast, Ryan talks to Steven Rinella about his new book Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature (which you can pick up at the Painted Porch) , making sure your kids aren't spending too much time on screens, and how to find the right balance between pursuing your purpose and spending time with family. Steven is a conservationist and host of his own show MeatEater. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
Fri, December 09, 2022
They Deserve To Know Before It's Too Late
It’s a story as old as fatherhood itself. The son or daughter kills themselves to win the approval of their dad, which never seems to come. There is pain, resentment, bewilderment. I have worked so hard to make you proud, am I just not enough? Only at the end, or after the parent’s death, is it revealed: The child had the thing they wanted all along. They just never knew. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, December 08, 2022
Be Careful Of Telling Them To Be Careful
You’re just trying to keep them safe. You’re just trying to help them. You’re just trying to look out for them. So you say or scream or text . Be careful! But you know what you’re really doing? ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, December 07, 2022
These Are Wonderful Sounds
One thing that hits you from the very first moments of being a parent is the noise. Your children come out screaming and they don’t stop. It makes you realize how quiet life was before—a quiet you will never know again, except for those few odd hours in a hotel room on a business trip and the precious evening hours between their bedtime and yours. However, we must hear every one of these wonderful sounds. We must appreciate what each one represents and says to us. We must listen to them. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, December 06, 2022
Don't Be A Ghost
You work hard. It keeps you busy. You are trying to provide for a family after all–to keep them safe and secure, so they never have to want or go without. That’s why you come home late, after they’re all asleep. That’s what has you rising early and heading to the airport, before anyone has stirred. It’s beautiful. It’s inspiring. It’s your job. It’s also sad. Very sad. And very easily the sign of something very broken. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, December 05, 2022
This Will Make Your Life (And Kids) Better
It’s not easy, this thing we’re trying to do. You’d think it would be: Billions of people have done it through history and the survival of our genes literally depends on it…yet here we are struggling. In need of all the help we can get. Today, we wanted to put together a list of stuff that has been of use to us here at Daily Dad over the years. Some books. Some items to carry with you or to keep on your desk. Some make for great holiday gifts. Some you might want to share with new or expecting parents. Check them out…and share them if they work. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, December 03, 2022
5 Parenting Don'ts
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad Ryan compiles advice from his Daily Dad newsletter, podcasts, and interviews to share a highlight reel of 5 Parenting Don'ts. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, December 02, 2022
Why Don't You Put That Energy Here?
The Stoics remind us not only to focus on what’s in our control , but specifically in regards to aggravating people, they tell us that the best revenge is to not be like them . Don’t be angry. Live well. Don’t get sucked into a negative world, commit more deeply to a positive world that you do control–the one you live in with your family. The one where your children will not exist forever—so enjoy it now while you can. Put that energy where it counts. Put it where it makes you better. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, December 01, 2022
How To Be The Greatest Ever
We’ve said before: kids do well when they can. When you give them the opportunity, kids generally do the right thing. You don’t have to scream. You don’t have to force them to do their homework. You just have to give them the opportunity to show you they know what’s right…sometimes they just need one more chance to get there. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, November 30, 2022
Aren't You A Little Old For That?
When our kids mess up we say: Aren’t you a little old for that? And we have all sorts of rules of thumb for what things are age appropriate or not—what age they should stop having accidents, what age they should stop throwing a tantrum just because they’re tired, what age it stops being okay for other people to have to pick up after them. You’re too old to act this way . It’s time to grow up. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, November 29, 2022
What's More Important?
It’s strange. The things we’re upset about–with our spouses, with our children, with our siblings. They feel like they matter so much in the moment. With time or distance though, these feelings always fade. And what’s left when we’ve acted on them? When we let them get the better of us in the moment? Sheepishness. Regret. Damage that cannot be undone. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, November 28, 2022
You Gotta Be Delicate About These Things
It’s the moment we dread. Our son is dating someone we know is bad for them. Our daughter is about to change college majors and throw away years of work. Our toddler has started biting or hitting or shouting some curse words. We have to think about correcting behavior as nudging our children, not forcing them . We have to persuade, not overpower. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, November 26, 2022
Knowing When To Take A Break
On this weekend episode of The Daily Dad Ryan talks about being an "activity addict" and how he and his wife balance knowing when it's time to just rest. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, November 25, 2022
How To Raise Generous Kids
You want to raise kids who aren’t entitled. Who are self-sufficient. Who are decent and kind, part of the solutions not the problems of the world and of their generation. Successful or struggling, you want your kids to be generous. With their time, with their money, with their talents. Rather than let the Black Friday spirit of materialism and selfishness infect us, let us contribute to something bigger than ourselves. Let us be good Stoics today, just head over to dailystoic.com/feeding —together we can contribute a small amount to help fight a big problem. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, November 24, 2022
Why We Should Always Be Grateful
Today and always we should be grateful. To choose resentment or envy, bitterness or fear, anxiety or anger–because your flight was delayed? Because your band teacher is a jerk? Because your marriage fell apart? This is to spit in the face of so many people who have so much less. Gratitude, always. That is the way. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube We are thankful today and every day for all of you. Thank you for being a part of the Daily Dad community!
Wed, November 23, 2022
What Values Are You Rewarding?
Pretty much every parent wants to raise kids who turn out to be good people . So it's important to show them that moral excellence is what matters. That being a good person is not just what you pay lip service to, but what you are always thinking about. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, November 22, 2022
You Don't Have To Be Perfect
We sweat so much. Whether we’re on our phone too much, when we could (and should) be playing with our kids. Whether their lunch yesterday was perfect. Whether we attend every dance recital and graduation. Whether we’re doing enough. Whether they’ll hate us forever for not letting them go to this school trip or that sleepover. Whether they’re scarred forever because we lost our temper or forgot something they needed or couldn’t afford something they wanted because everyone else has one. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, November 21, 2022
You're Lying To Yourself If You Think This Works
Your son failed a test. He hit his brother. Your daughter forgot to do her homework. She scratched your car and lied about it. They are acting insane and you need it to stop. You just desperately want them to grasp the stakes of what’s happening. So you yell. You threaten timeout. You threaten to ground them. You don’t hold back. But it doesn’t work. Of course, it doesn’t work. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, November 19, 2022
How to Adjust to Growing Pains
On this weekend episode of The Daily Dad Ryan riffs about how he handled his kids outgrowing their stroller and his clever way to get them excited about exercising. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, November 18, 2022
You Can't Form A Picture
As it happens, this is good advice for fathers as well. It’s easy to go into it thinking that you know. Because you’ve read the books. Because you’re on your third kid now and have it handled. Because you and your spouse have a plan for how to do it all right. And then guess what? Unavoidable reality quickly humbles anyone with this kind of certainty. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, November 17, 2022
Your Little Guy and Gals
Across cultures, across generations, across politics and moments in time, this having kids thing–it just cuts through everything. You probably know very little about the Easter Uprising in Ireland. You don’t have to know who Michael Mallin was. You don’t have to know what motivated him to join an armed revolution against the British. You don’t have to know what he did as one of its leaders. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, November 16, 2022
Wait and See
You’re pretty sure you know what’s best for your kids. You’re sure something they are considering is a bad idea. You’re sure they shouldn’t drop out of school. You’re sure they shouldn’t hang out with that kid. You’re sure they should take this job instead of that one. And usually you’re right. Usually , you know better. But do you know best? Really? How can you be so sure? ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, November 15, 2022
Always Look For This
It can feel like there is never enough time as a parent. And it’s true, there isn’t…yet part of this is our fault. As Seneca would say, it’s not just that life is short, it's that we waste a lot of it. As parents we have to look for opportunities to save time…so we can spend more of it with the people we love. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, November 14, 2022
You’ll Want To Know You Were Here
We’ve said before that parenting is a grind . It’s exhausting. It can all seem so humdrum, even a burden. Staying up with an overtired toddler. Staying up until curfew to check on a teenager. There will come a time that you’ll look back on even the most difficult moments of this journey and be nostalgic for it. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, November 12, 2022
Surprising Lessons From A Trip To Disneyland
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan recaps his trip to Disneyland with his family and how he was able to teach his kids about the importance of gratitude. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, November 11, 2022
Are You Helping Them Build Their Reading Muscles
It’s interesting to think about the steady decline in expectations for our kids when it comes to reading. Sure, we want them to be able to read earlier than ever, but what about what they read? ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, November 10, 2022
Teach Them The Ideals Of A Rare Spirit
You wouldn’t think of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius as a parenting book. The former Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said all entrepreneurs, economists and politicians should read Meditations (and several American presidents have too). General James Mattis said every soldier should read Meditations . Actors recommend it to others in show business. Athletes recommend it to others in sports. Writers recommend it to other writers. Founders recommend it to others setting out to start a business. But every parent should read it too. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, November 09, 2022
You're Lucky They're Born Now
This seems like such a fraught moment in time. There was a pandemic. There’s been civil unrest. It feels like institutions are falling apart. Naturally, this scares us as parents. We’d like to look at the world before us is with fear and anger. But there's another way: gratitude , and determination. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, November 08, 2022
Are You Doing This For Them?
Today is Election Day in America (and countries all over the world will have theirs sometime soon). If you don’t vote, if you can’t be bothered to participate, then how can you say you really want your kids to have a better life? How can you really say you’d do anything to protect them? Do this for them. It’s literally the least you can do. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, November 08, 2022
Are You Doing This For Them?
Today is Election Day in America (and countries all over the world will have theirs sometime soon). If you don’t vote, if you can’t be bothered to participate, then how can you say you really want your kids to have a better life? How can you really say you’d do anything to protect them? Do this for them. It’s literally the least you can do. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, November 07, 2022
It’s Easy Until It Happens To You
Each of us goes into this with opinions–so many opinions. Not just about parenting but about other parents. Parents who let their kids have lots of screentime. Parents of kids with “ADHD.” Divorced parents. Parents who ply their kids with soda and sugary cereals to get them to behave. Because we think we know better, or at least we’re confident that we know “the right way” to do things. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, November 05, 2022
Daily Dad on How Life Can Pull You Away From What Truly Matters
Ryan talks about a recent chaotic travel week when he was reminded about how easily life can take you away from what actually matters. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Check out the Daily Dad Store https://store.dailydad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, November 04, 2022
Fatherhood Is Not Babysitting
You’re not a babysitter. You’re not some lesser figure in your kids’ lives. When you are with them—and when you are not with them— you’re their father. That matters. It’s an important job , one that you should take seriously and never demean (and not let others demean, either). You’re doing it because you love it , because you get something out of it, and you know what kind of impact it has. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, November 03, 2022
How To Shape Yourself and Your Kids
The famous screenwriter’s maxim is “show don’t tell.” Marcus Aurelius said it’s a waste of time to speculate or argue about what makes a good man, a good athlete, a good teammate, a good parent. Our job, he said, was to be one . We can have great conversations. We can give them a great lecture. But what matters is what we model. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, November 02, 2022
Don't Let Them Steal This
Not every parent is a public figure, but each of us are constrained by the same amount of finite energy. And it could be argued that in a world of social media, we do have a presence on platforms with the potential to expose us to endless amounts of people who disagree or dislike us. The question is: Are you going to get bogged down by this or ignore it? ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, November 01, 2022
It Takes A Team
It’s impossible to do this all, isn’t it? We have all the tasks, responsibilities, and aspirations we’ve always had–eating and sleeping and working and paying our taxes and taking out the trash and following our dreams–but now we have little people to care for on top of all that. Little helpless people with infinite needs. How can we do it all? ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, October 31, 2022
Teach Them About This Choice
Michael Lewis tells the story of a coach named Jack Kenney who changed his life. One morning at an overnight tennis camp, all the campers stormed the dining hall to try to get their favorite box of cereal. The options ranged from Froot Loops every kid likes to the dark bran stuff no kid likes. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, October 29, 2022
Managing Opposing Parenting Opinions and Expectations
On this weekend's episode of Daily Dad Ryan chats with his writing partner Nils Parker about different parenting topics and how to respond to outsider opinions and parenting expectations. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, October 28, 2022
It’s The Work That Matters
The great physicist Richard Feynman had a father who instilled his brilliant son with an interesting perspective about the world. Sitting down, he would lay the newspaper out on the table and ask his boy questions about what they saw and read. Once, when they came upon a photo of the Pope blessing a group of believers, Richard’s father asked his son if he knew the difference between the Pope and his followers. And then, before Richard could answer, he said, “The difference is the hat. He is wearing a hat.” His dad would repeat the same exercise whether it was a photo of a general with stars on their collar or a wealthy executive with an expensive suit. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, October 27, 2022
It’s Ok To Have Conditions
Your job is to be a fan of your kids. We’ve said this before. Your job is to help them become who they are. We’ve said that too . Your job is to help them find “their project,” their “life’s task.” We’ve said all that, and hopefully you’ve gotten the message. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, October 26, 2022
You Have to See This
We talked recently about this choice we have as parents –about what we choose to see. Just like everyone has the choice to see the cup as half full or half empty, as parents we have a lot of power over the lens that we bring to each parenting situation, each crisis, each potential frustration. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, October 25, 2022
That They Scared You Is Not An Excuse
Any parent can tell you, the maddest they ever got at your kids is not because they did something to pissed you off or hurt your feelings. It was because they scared you. By running away in a parking lot. By getting caught with some dangerous drugs. By not coming home at curfew. By playing with something you told them they could never touch without an adult present. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, October 24, 2022
Rare Doesn’t Mean It Doesn’t Happen
We must take two seemingly contradictory facts seriously at the same time. The first is that many parents are way too risk averse, overwhelmed by anxieties and worries about incredibly rare or unlikely dangers. The second is that, to paraphrase the writer Morgan Housel, things that never happen, happen all the time . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, October 22, 2022
Kids Don't Care About Your Accomplishments
On this weekend's episode Ryan shares his youngest son's reaction to his book making the New York Times Best Seller list, diving into what kids truly care about when it comes to your role as a parent. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, October 21, 2022
What is Your Ego Distracting You From?
We live in a world awash with ego. We see it every day. We can see the ego of our boss, and how it has turned the office against them. We can see ego in politicians and professional athletes. We can see it in our kid’s teacher, perhaps, when they get in some pissing match with another parent or are threatened by a precious student. As they get older, we can even see ego in our own kids—thinking they can ace a test without studying or advance in sports without practicing. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, October 20, 2022
Never Blame Your Kids
In 2021, in the midst of a terrible storm that not only killed hundreds of Texans but left millions without power, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz fled the state for the warmer weather of Mexico. It was, of course, a shameful abdication of leadership and responsibility that surprised absolutely no one who knows anything about Ted Cruz, especially members of his own party. If that wasn’t enough, Cruz would then break another cardinal rule of parenting: He threw his kids under the bus, trying to make the whole thing sound like it was his young daughters’ idea. 📕 Ryan Holiday's new book " Discipline Is Destiny " is out now! We’ve extended the pre-order bonuses for the next week —among them is a signed and numbered page from the original manuscript of the book. You can learn more about those and how to receive them over at Dailystoic.com/preorder . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, October 19, 2022
Everybody Has Something
We would love for our kids to be perfect. To not just be born with ten fingers and ten toes, but flawless genetics and impeccable luck so nothing bad ever happens to them, so they are never sick and never in pain. However, the inevitable is true: everyone has something. 📕 Ryan Holiday's new book " Discipline Is Destiny " is out now! We’ve extended the pre-order bonuses for the next week —among them is a signed and numbered page from the original manuscript of the book. You can learn more about those and how to receive them over at Dailystoic.com/preorder . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, October 18, 2022
Which Type Will You Be?
The story of George Washington and the cherry tree is not a true one. It is also, as we’ve written here before , not a story whose moral is about lying. It’s actually about the complex relationship between a parent and a child, one where the child trusts the parent enough to tell the truth, even when they have done wrong, and a parent who respects their child enough not to punish this kind of honesty. 📕 Ryan Holiday's new book " Discipline Is Destiny " is out now! We’ve extended the pre-order bonuses for the next week —among them is a signed and numbered page from the original manuscript of the book. You can learn more about those and how to receive them over at Dailystoic.com/preorder . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, October 17, 2022
What Will You See?
There’s so much we don’t control as parents. We don’t control what’s happening in the world. We don’t control what our kids are going through. We don’t even really control what they do–not as much as we’d like to think anyway. But the one thing we do control, the Stoics would say, is how we choose to look at things. We choose what handle we grab in each situation, the story we tell ourselves about it. 📕 Ryan Holiday's new book " Discipline Is Destiny " is out now! We’ve extended the pre-order bonuses for the next week —among them is a signed and numbered page from the original manuscript of the book. You can learn more about those and how to receive them over at Dailystoic.com/preorder . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, October 15, 2022
Daily Dad on Staying Present with the Kids When Traveling for Work
Daily Dad on Staying Present with the Kids When Traveling for Work Ryan talks to his friend and writing partner Nils Parker about the impact traveling for work can have on the relationship with your kids and spouse. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Check out the Daily Dad Store https://store.dailydad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, October 14, 2022
It’s Never Too Late to Be a Good Father
Ted Williams was not a good father—at least not for most of his life. He was a great baseball player, but for a long time, he was a really selfish and ruthless person. He came from a horrible, abusive childhood himself and struggled to find the ability to love and care about anyone, including himself. It was like his own childhood prepared him to be a kind of lone wolf, a machine designed to do one thing really well (and caring about other people was not that thing). 📕 Ryan Holiday's new book " Discipline Is Destiny " is out now! We’ve extended the pre-order bonuses for the next week —among them is a signed and numbered page from the original manuscript of the book. You can learn more about those and how to receive them over at Dailystoic.com/preorder . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, October 13, 2022
The Little Things You Have To Do (That They Won’t Even Notice)
📕 Ryan Holiday's new book " Discipline Is Destiny " is out now! We’ve extended the pre-order bonuses for the next week —among them is a signed and numbered page from the original manuscript of the book. You can learn more about those and how to receive them over at Dailystoic.com/preorder . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube We do all sorts of things for our kids. We make grand gestures and do small favors. We clothe them and make sure their favorite pants are clean for Spirit Day. We feed them and make sure their favorite snack is in their lunch box. We get up in the middle of the night to go pick them up if they call, and we stay up into the night when they don’t. We’d sell our kidney if they needed it, and we’ll mortgage our house for their college tuition.
Wed, October 12, 2022
Is This What You Want Them To Say?
By now you might have already seen the viral obituary that a son published in Jacksonville, FL earlier this summer. “Lawrence H Pfaff Sr. was born in Belmont, NY, on April 16, 1941,” it reads. “He passed away on June 27, 2022, living a long life, much longer than he deserved.” The searing obituary goes on to describe a philanderer, a liar, a flake, a disgraced cop, a narcissist, an abusive drunk, and an absentee father. 📕 Ryan Holiday's new book " Discipline Is Destiny " is out now! We’ve extended the pre-order bonuses for the next week —among them is a signed and numbered page from the original manuscript of the book. You can learn more about those and how to receive them over at Dailystoic.com/preorder . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, October 11, 2022
Questions Deserve Answers
Kids are curious. Most adults aren’t. How does that happen? Most kids stop being curious because the adults around them weren’t curious. The trait wasn’t encouraged…so it disappeared. 📕 Ryan Holiday's new book " Discipline Is Destiny " is out now! We’ve extended the pre-order bonuses for the next week —among them is a signed and numbered page from the original manuscript of the book. You can learn more about those and how to receive them over at Dailystoic.com/preorder . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, October 10, 2022
The Most Wonderful Things in the Most Wonderful Time
Yes, it is terribly difficult. And stressful. And expensive. And overwhelming–physically, emotionally, even sonically. Noises. Demands. Unfixable problems. Not nearly enough sleep. 📕 Ryan Holiday's new book " Discipline Is Destiny " is out now! We’ve extended the pre-order bonuses for the next week —among them is a signed and numbered page from the original manuscript of the book. You can learn more about those and how to receive them over at Dailystoic.com/preorder . ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail 📱 Follow us: Instagram , Twitter , YouTube , TikTok , and Facebook
Sat, October 08, 2022
The Best Way To Lead Your Kids I Robert Greene Parenting Advice
On today’s episode of the podcast best selling author Robert Greene explains the importance of setting a good example for your kids. 📕Pre-order Ryan Holiday's new book "Discipline Is Destiny" and get exclusive pre-order bonuses at https://dailystoic.com/preorder ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, October 07, 2022
Be Proud of What You Created
Who among us is not insecure? We look around and see people who make more money. Who have bigger houses. Who have accomplished more than we have. This insecurity is compounded by social media, but it is also timeless. There’s a story that Julius Caesar once stood in front of a statue of Alexander the Great. At the age Caesar was at that moment, Alexander the Great had already conquered the world. By comparison, Caesar had done almost nothing. 📕 Ryan Holiday's new book " Discipline Is Destiny " is out now! We’ve extended the pre-order bonuses for the next week —among them is a signed and numbered page from the original manuscript of the book. You can learn more about those and how to receive them over at Dailystoic.com/preorder . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Thu, October 06, 2022
Teach Them To Go Find It
A young Kwame Onwuachi was cooking with his mother in their apartment in The Bronx when suddenly the apartment was overwhelmed by a strange smell. As he would write in his memoir, the, “thick fragrant smell of curry came on so strong both of us stopped what we were doing and looked up.” But it wasn’t actually the smell that he remembered. It was what his mother did next. 📕 Ryan Holiday's new book " Discipline Is Destiny " is out now! We’ve extended the pre-order bonuses for the next week —among them is a signed and numbered page from the original manuscript of the book. You can learn more about those and how to receive them over at Dailystoic.com/preorder . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Wed, October 05, 2022
See It This Way Now
All good things come to an end. The same goes for some things you might not think of as good . Your kids waking up in the middle of the night. The fights between siblings. The call from the police station about your teenager. The financial dependence. 📕 Ryan Holiday's new book " Discipline Is Destiny " is out now! We’ve extended the pre-order bonuses for the next week —among them is a signed and numbered page from the original manuscript of the book. You can learn more about those and how to receive them over at Dailystoic.com/preorder . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Tue, October 04, 2022
It Takes Discipline
In the 1960s, the young poet Diane di Prima was at one of those legendary Beat parties that movies are made of. Everyone was there. There were drugs and ideas and romances. Jack Keroauc was there, holding court. And yet, di Prima got up to leave and go home early. 📕 Ryan Holiday's new book " Discipline Is Destiny " is out now! We’ve extended the pre-order bonuses for the next week —among them is a signed and numbered page from the original manuscript of the book. You can learn more about those and how to receive them over at Dailystoic.com/preorder . ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Mon, October 03, 2022
In The Hall, It is The Enemy
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Sat, October 01, 2022
Daily Dad and Austin Kleon on Raising Kids as a Creative Person
On today’s episode of the podcast Ryan talks to author Austin Kleon about how to balance being creative with being a parent. 📕Pre-order Ryan Holiday's new book "Discipline Is Destiny" and get exclusive pre-order bonuses at https://dailystoic.com/preorder ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, September 30, 2022
Don’t Forget to Schedule Time for This
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Thu, September 29, 2022
Try To Think About How You’d Feel
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Wed, September 28, 2022
You Have To Help Them Here
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Tue, September 27, 2022
Let Them Decide
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Mon, September 26, 2022
Find Where They Know More Than You
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Sat, September 24, 2022
Daily Dad on the Importance of Personal Awareness
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Fri, September 23, 2022
Do Your Kids Have This?
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Thu, September 22, 2022
Who do You Wish Your Parents Were?
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Wed, September 21, 2022
Have You Really Understood This?
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Tue, September 20, 2022
Your Kids Are Not Keeping Score
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Mon, September 19, 2022
It’s Good When They’re Bad
Of course no one likes it when their children misbehave. Whether it’s the defiant toddler in the grocery store or the teenager speaking to you rudely, not only do we not like these behaviors, we take them as indictments of our capacity as parents. Clearly they don’t respect us. Clearly they don’t listen. Clearly we’re failing. 📕Pre-order Ryan Holiday's new book "Discipline Is Destiny" and get exclusive pre-order bonuses at https://dailystoic.com/preorder Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Sat, September 17, 2022
Daily Dad on Making the Most of Every Day
Ryan talks about the stresses of parenting and how to remain grateful for the time that you have with your kids. Ritual is a multivitamin that delivers high quality nutrients, including Vitamin D3, in just 2 daily pills. Get key nutrients without the B.S. - Ritual is offering listeners 10% off during your first 3 months. Visit ritual.com/DAILYDAD to start your Ritual today. Bespoke Post has a huge number of collections no matter what you’re into: the great outdoors, style, cooking, mixology, and more. Get 20% off your first monthly box when you sign up at boxofawesome.com and enter the code DAILYDAD at checkout. This episode is sponsored by BetterHELP . BetterHELP will assess your needs and match you with your own licensed professional therapist and you can start communicating in under 48 hours. Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/dailydad 📕Pre-order Ryan Holiday's new book "Discipline Is Destiny" and get exclusive pre-order bonuses at https://dailystoic.com/preorder ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, September 16, 2022
When it Comes to Parenting, the Stakes Couldn’t be Higher
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Thu, September 15, 2022
This is What It Takes To Thrive
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Wed, September 14, 2022
When Should We Quit?
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Tue, September 13, 2022
They Need Windows
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Mon, September 12, 2022
Make Sure They’re Busy Doing This
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Sat, September 10, 2022
Why I Pick up Trash at the Beach
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Fri, September 09, 2022
Slow Down or You’ll Miss This Gift
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Thu, September 08, 2022
Other People Have Trouble Too
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Wed, September 07, 2022
Don’t Wish Away A Minute Of It
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Tue, September 06, 2022
Help Them Find Their People
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Mon, September 05, 2022
It’s All a Tricky Balance
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Sat, September 03, 2022
Daily Dad on Consumer Culture and Knowing What to Keep
Ryan talks to his friend and writing partner Nils Parker about the impact of consumer culture on family life. Munk Pack makes the best Keto Granola Bars that contain just a single gram of sugar and 2 to 3 net carbs—and they’re only 140 calories. Get 20% off your first purchase of ANY Munk Pack product by visiting munkpack.com and entering our code DAILYDAD at checkout. Bespoke Post has a huge number of collections no matter what you’re into: the great outdoors, style, cooking, mixology, and more. Get 20% off your first monthly box when you sign up at boxofawesome.com and enter the code DAILYDAD at checkout. This episode is sponsored by BetterHELP . BetterHELP will assess your needs and match you with your own licensed professional therapist and you can start communicating in under 48 hours. Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/dailydad 📕Pre-order Ryan Holiday's new book "Discipline Is Destiny" and get exclusive pre-order bonuses at https://dailystoic.com/preorder ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, September 02, 2022
The Real Solution to Most Parenting Problems
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Thu, September 01, 2022
What Does This Say About School?
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Wed, August 31, 2022
Don’t Help Them Become Who You Were
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Tue, August 30, 2022
Again, Which Will You Be?
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Mon, August 29, 2022
Let Them Do Dangerous Things Carefully
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Sat, August 27, 2022
Daily Dad on Keeping Your Kids Safe
Ryan talks about the vacation that he and his family recently went on in Florida, the protective measures that you should take to make sure your kids are safe, and more. Hiya is the pediatrician-approved superpowered chewable vitamin created by two dads tired of children’s vitamins that cause more problems than they solve. Daily Dad listeners receive 50% off your first order. To claim this deal go to hiyahealth.com/DAILYDAD or enter code DAILYDAD at checkout. Munk Pack makes the best Keto Granola Bars that contain just a single gram of sugar and 2 to 3 net carbs—and they’re only 140 calories. Get 20% off your first purchase of ANY Munk Pack product by visiting munkpack.com and entering our code DAILYDAD at checkout. Athletic Greens is going to give you a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/DAILYDAD . Ritual is a multivitamin that delivers high quality nutrients, including Vitamin D3, in just 2 daily pills. Get key nutrients without the B.S. - Ritual is offering listeners 10% off during your first 3 months. Visit ritual.com/DAILYDAD to start your Ritual today. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, August 26, 2022
Kids See Through To What Matters
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Thu, August 25, 2022
Did It Bring You Closer Together?
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Wed, August 24, 2022
This is When You Are Happiest
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Tue, August 23, 2022
Teach Them To Be Bigger
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Mon, August 22, 2022
Give Them An Enormous Kingdom
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Sat, August 20, 2022
Daily Dad on the Vulnerability of Parenting
Ryan talks to his friend and writing partner Nils Parker about the vulnerabilities that parenting opens you up to. Pair Eyewear’s base frame and magnetic top frame combination makes it easy to switch up your style. Go to paireyewear.com/DAILYDAD for 15% off your first purchase. Munk Pack makes the best Keto Granola Bars that contain just a single gram of sugar and 2 to 3 net carbs—and they’re only 140 calories. Get 20% off your first purchase of ANY Munk Pack product by visiting munkpack.com and entering our code DAILYDAD at checkout. Bespoke Post has a huge number of collections no matter what you’re into: the great outdoors, style, cooking, mixology, and more. Get 20% off your first monthly box when you sign up at boxofawesome.com and enter the code DAILYDAD at checkout. LinkedIn Jobs helps you find the candidates you want to talk to, faster. Did you know every week, nearly 40 million job seekers visit LinkedIn? Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/DAILYDAD Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, August 19, 2022
Teach Them It's Figureoutable
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Thu, August 18, 2022
Let Them Know This
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Wed, August 17, 2022
The Two Most Important Skills To Teach Your Kids
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Tue, August 16, 2022
Make Them Prove It
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Mon, August 15, 2022
We Have The Strangest Priorities
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Sat, August 13, 2022
Daily Dad on Vaccinating Kids and COVID-19
Ryan talks about his youngest son getting vaccinated, why we should serve the common good, how to think about vaccines, and more. Munk Pack makes the best Keto Granola Bars that contain just a single gram of sugar and 2 to 3 net carbs—and they’re only 140 calories. Get 20% off your first purchase of ANY Munk Pack product by visiting munkpack.com and entering our code DAILYDAD at checkout. Hiya is the pediatrician-approved superpowered chewable vitamin created by two dads tired of children’s vitamins that cause more problems than they solve. Daily Dad listeners receive 50% off your first order. To claim this deal go to hiyahealth.com/DAILYDAD or enter code DAILYDAD at checkout. This episode is sponsored by BetterHELP . BetterHELP will assess your needs and match you with your own licensed professional therapist and you can start communicating in under 48 hours. Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/dailydad NED Products will help you perform better, sharpen your mind and get consistent, quality sleep. Go to https://helloned.com/DAILYDAD or enter code DAILYDAD at checkout to get 15% off. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, August 12, 2022
Your Kids are Not a Reflection of You
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Thu, August 11, 2022
Teach Them How To Play Ball
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Wed, August 10, 2022
What You Can’t Give Them, This Can
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Tue, August 09, 2022
Have You Done This?
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Mon, August 08, 2022
Teach Them To Care Like This
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Sat, August 06, 2022
Daily Dad on Setting the Right Example for your Family
Ryan talks to his friend and writing partner Nils parker on today’s episode of the Daily Dad Podcast. Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a custom bundle of cereal and start your New Year off right! And be sure to use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. NED Products will help you perform better, sharpen your mind and get consistent, quality sleep. Go to https://helloned.com/DAILYDAD or enter code DAILYDAD at checkout to get 15% off. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, August 05, 2022
It’s Time To Look in the Mirror
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Thu, August 04, 2022
It’s Good Practice
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Wed, August 03, 2022
You Can’t Force It
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Tue, August 02, 2022
Never, Ever, Ever, Ever Do This
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Mon, August 01, 2022
Don't Give Them An Ego
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Sat, July 30, 2022
Daily Dad and Tony Gonzalez on Balancing Work and Family
Ryan and Tony Gonzalez talk about the tension between reaching for ambitious goals while still being a good parent and partner, why you have to choose between family, work and scene, how to do great work and still be a great parent, and more. Tony Gonzalez is regarded as one of the greatest tight ends of all time. He spent his first 12 seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs, who selected him in the first round of the 1997 NFL Draft. During his last five seasons, he was a member of the Atlanta Falcons. Since retiring in 2013, Gonzalez has served as an analyst for Fox Sports. Athletic Greens is going to give you a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/DAILYDAD . InsideTracker provides you with a personalized plan to improve your metabolism, reduce stress, improve sleep, and optimize your health for the long haul. For a limited time, get 20% off the entire InsideTracker store. Just go to insidetracker.com/DAILYDAD to claim this deal. Ritual is a multivitamin that delivers high quality nutrients, including Vitamin D3, in just 2 daily pills. Get key nutrients without the B.S. - Ritual is offering listeners 10% off during your first 3 months. Visit ritual.com/DAILYDAD to start your Ritual today. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, July 29, 2022
Don’t Give Them an Ego
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Thu, July 28, 2022
Don’t Make Them Fit In
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Wed, July 27, 2022
Be A Gardener
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Tue, July 26, 2022
How You Do It Is How They Will
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Mon, July 25, 2022
Try This At Dinner
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Sat, July 23, 2022
Daily Dad on Teaching Kids to be Open Minded
On this episode of the podcast Ryan talks about the recent “Drag Storytime” event that took place at the Painted Porch Bookshop in Bastrop, Texas. Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a custom bundle of cereal and start your New Year off right! And be sure to use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. Hiya is the pediatrician-approved superpowered chewable vitamin created by two dads tired of children’s vitamins that cause more problems than they solve. Daily Dad listeners receive 50% off your first order. To claim this deal go to hiyahealth.com/DAILYDAD or enter code DAILYDAD at checkout. This episode is sponsored by BetterHELP . BetterHELP will assess your needs and match you with your own licensed professional therapist and you can start communicating in under 48 hours. Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/dailydad ’ InsideTracker provides you with a personalized plan to improve your metabolism, reduce stress, improve sleep, and optimize your health for the long haul. For a limited time, get 20% off the entire InsideTracker store. Just go to insidetracker.com/DAILYDAD to claim this deal. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, July 22, 2022
Your Kids are Not a Reflection of You
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Thu, July 21, 2022
Teach Them To Be Particular
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Wed, July 20, 2022
Give Them This Compass
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Tue, July 19, 2022
We Are All Complicated
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Mon, July 18, 2022
Always Come Right Back
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Sat, July 16, 2022
Daily Dad on the Importance of Personal Awareness
Ryan talks to his friend and writing partner Nils parker on today’s episode of the Daily Dad Podcast. Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a custom bundle of cereal and start your New Year off right! And be sure to use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. Bespoke Post has a huge number of collections no matter what you’re into: the great outdoors, style, cooking, mixology, and more. Get 20% off your first monthly box when you sign up at boxofawesome.com and enter the code DAILYDAD at checkout. NED Products will help you perform better, sharpen your mind and get consistent, quality sleep. Go to https://helloned.com/DAILYDAD or enter code DAILYDAD at checkout to get 15% off. InsideTracker provides you with a personalized plan to improve your metabolism, reduce stress, improve sleep, and optimize your health for the long haul. For a limited time, get 20% off the entire InsideTracker store. Just go to insidetracker.com/DAILYDAD to claim this deal. Pair Eyewear’s base frame and magnetic top frame combination makes it easy to switch up your style. Go to paireyewear.com/DAILYDAD for 15% off your first purchase. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, July 15, 2022
They Don't Feel as Old as They Look
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Thu, July 14, 2022
It’s Worth The Embarrassment
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Wed, July 13, 2022
Your Last Will and Testament
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Tue, July 12, 2022
This Is What They Want
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Mon, July 11, 2022
Teach Them About Their Ultimate Power
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Sat, July 09, 2022
Daily Dad on the Perception of Mom and Dad
Ryan talks about the different perceptions of mothers and fathers, how he interacts with people who recognize him, and more. Hiya is the pediatrician-approved superpowered chewable vitamin created by two dads tired of children’s vitamins that cause more problems than they solve. Daily Dad listeners receive 50% off your first order. To claim this deal go to hiyahealth.com/DAILYDAD or enter code DAILYDAD at checkout. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, July 08, 2022
How to Convince Them
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Thu, July 07, 2022
How To Encourage Crazy Dreams
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Wed, July 06, 2022
Don’t Let It Hit the Bullseye
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Tue, July 05, 2022
Don’t Take This From Them
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Mon, July 04, 2022
Make Today Mean Something
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Sat, July 02, 2022
Daily Dad and Kathryn Schulz on Learning from Loss and Grief
Ryan talks to Kathryn Schulz about teaching your kids how to wrestle with the inevitability of loss and grief, protecting those around us and passing along a better world for your kids, and more. Kathryn Schulz is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error. She won a National Magazine Award and a Pulitzer Prize in 2015 for “The Really Big One,” an article about seismic risk in the Pacific Northwest. Her most recent book is Lost & Found, a memoir that grew out of “Losing Streak,” which was originally published in The New Yorker and later anthologized in The Best American Essays. Her other essays and reporting have appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing, The Best American Travel Writing, and The Best American Food Writing. A native of Ohio, she lives with her family on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. This podcast is sponsored by BetterHELP . BetterHELP will assess your needs and match you with your own licensed professional therapist and you can start communicating in under 48 hours. Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/dailydad InsideTracker provides you with a personalized plan to improve your metabolism, reduce stress, improve sleep, and optimize your health for the long haul. For a limited time, get 20% off the entire InsideTracker store. Just go to insidetracker.com/DAILYDAD to claim this deal. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, July 01, 2022
Sweet Kids in a Cruel World
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Thu, June 30, 2022
To Understand It, Get The Children’s Book
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Wed, June 29, 2022
Being a Fan Isn’t Easy
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Tue, June 28, 2022
They Must Have This Strength
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Mon, June 27, 2022
Don’t Do This To Them
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Sat, June 25, 2022
Daily Dad on the Opinions that Parents Pass Down To Their Kids
Ryan talks to his friend and writing partner Nils Parker about how parents opinions impact children and end up shaping their worldview. Hiya is the pediatrician-approved superpowered chewable vitamin created by two dads tired of children’s vitamins that cause more problems than they solve. Daily Dad listeners receive 50% off your first order. To claim this deal go to hiyahealth.com/DAILYDAD or enter code DAILYDAD at checkout. Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a custom bundle of cereal and start your New Year off right! And be sure to use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. NED Products will help you perform better, sharpen your mind and get consistent, quality sleep. Go to https://helloned.com/DAILYDAD or enter code DAILYDAD at checkout to get 15% off. InsideTracker provides you with a personalized plan to improve your metabolism, reduce stress, improve sleep, and optimize your health for the long haul. For a limited time, get 20% off the entire InsideTracker store. Just go to insidetracker.com/DAILYDAD to claim this deal. Ritual is a multivitamin that delivers high quality nutrients, including Vitamin D3, in just 2 daily pills. Get key nutrients without the B.S. - Ritual is offering listeners 10% off during your first 3 months. Visit ritual.com/DAILYDAD to start your Ritual today. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, June 24, 2022
You Don’t Want Them To Say This
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Thu, June 23, 2022
You Have To Back Them Up
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Wed, June 22, 2022
That They Used To Be Oblivious Is Not an Excuse
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Tue, June 21, 2022
Their Needs Are So Modest
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Mon, June 20, 2022
Are You A Real Parent
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Sat, June 18, 2022
Daily Dad on the Transferrable Excitement of Kids
Ryan talks about how infectious kids excitement can be and how adults can apply it to their lives. Hiya is the pediatrician-approved superpowered chewable vitamin created by two dads tired of children’s vitamins that cause more problems than they solve. Daily Dad listeners receive 50% off your first order. To claim this deal go to hiyahealth.com/DAILYDAD or enter code DAILYDAD at checkout. Bespoke Post has a huge number of collections no matter what you’re into: the great outdoors, style, cooking, mixology, and more. Get 20% off your first monthly box when you sign up at boxofawesome.com and enter the code DAILYDAD at checkout. Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a custom bundle of cereal and start your New Year off right! And be sure to use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. Pair Eyewear’s base frame and magnetic top frame combination makes it easy to switch up your style. Go to paireyewear.com/DAILYDAD for 15% off your first purchase. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, June 17, 2022
It’s Time To Be Honest
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Thu, June 16, 2022
Do Not Get In The Way Of Their Primal Inclinations
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Wed, June 15, 2022
Family Doesn’t Hold You Back
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Tue, June 14, 2022
Are You A Real Parent?
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Mon, June 13, 2022
They Should Keep A Garden
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Sat, June 11, 2022
Daily Dad and Tariq Azim on Mental Health and Learning From Your Own Parents
Ryan talks to Tariq Azim about growing up in war ridden Afghanistan, the trauma of watching his father’s mental health collapse, his desire to show his parents that he was strong enough, and more. Tareq Azim is the author of Empower: Conquering the Disease of Fear, which was recently published in January 2022. Tareq is a seven-time World Championship attending coach in combat sports, a former Division I linebacker at Fresno State, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, an author, and a philanthropist. He also created the first Afghan Women’s Boxing Federation in 2004. Tareq’s mission is to normalize conversations about mental health, and this has driven his career and success throughout his life. Every week StoryWorth emails your loved one a different story prompt – questions you’ve never thought to ask. Get started right away with no shipping required by going to StoryWorth.com/dailydad . You’ll get $10 off your first purchase. Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a custom bundle of cereal and start your New Year off right! And be sure to use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. BetterHELP will assess your needs and match you with your own licensed professional therapist and you can start communicating in under 48 hours. Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/dailydad Sunday can help you grow a beautiful lawn without the guesswork OR nasty chemicals. Full-season plans start at just $129, and you can get 20% off at checkout when you visit GETSUNDAY.COM/DAILYDAD . Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, June 10, 2022
The First Rule Is To Ignore Stupid Rules
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Thu, June 09, 2022
Don't Give Them Your Fears
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Wed, June 08, 2022
Help, But Don’t Make Them Helpless
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Tue, June 07, 2022
They Can’t Take This Away
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Mon, June 06, 2022
All That Matters Is This
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Sat, June 04, 2022
Daily Dad on Talking To Your Kids About Religion
On today’s episode of the podcast Ryan talks about the conversation he had with his son about religion and how you should think about it with your own kids. NED Products will help you perform better, sharpen your mind and get consistent, quality sleep. Go to https://helloned.com/DAILYDAD or enter code DAILYDAD at checkout to get 15% off. InsideTracker provides you with a personalized plan to improve your metabolism, reduce stress, improve sleep, and optimize your health for the long haul. For a limited time, get 20% off the entire InsideTracker store. Just go to insidetracker.com/DAILYDAD to claim this deal. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, June 03, 2022
Give Them Plenty Of These
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Thu, June 02, 2022
It’s Hard For All of Us
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Wed, June 01, 2022
Do You Know What You Look Like Angry?
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Tue, May 31, 2022
You Can’t Change Your Parents
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Mon, May 30, 2022
What Is More Important?
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Sat, May 28, 2022
Daily Dad on Getting Help and Optimizing Time With Your Kids
On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks to his friend and writing partner Nils Parker about how to think about spending time with your kids. Grab your exclusive NordVPN deal by going to nordvpn.com/dailydad to get a huge discount off your Nord VPN plan+ Free threat protection + 1 additional month for free. It’s completely risk free with Nord’s 30 day money back guarantee. Pair Eyewear’s base frame and magnetic top frame combination makes it easy to switch up your style. Go to paireyewear.com/DAILYDAD for 15% off your first purchase. Ritual is a multivitamin that delivers high quality nutrients, including Vitamin D3, in just 2 daily pills. Get key nutrients without the B.S. - Ritual is offering listeners 10% off during your first 3 months. Visit ritual.com/DAILYDAD to start your Ritual today. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, May 27, 2022
This is Anti-Enlightenment
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Thu, May 26, 2022
There Is Nothing Better Than This
Ryan talks about the joy of parenting. Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a variety pack and try it today. Use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Wed, May 25, 2022
Teach Them About This Tension
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Tue, May 24, 2022
Assume The Best
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Mon, May 23, 2022
It's A Fun Excuse
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Sat, May 21, 2022
Daily Dad on Talking to Your Kids About Death
On today’s episode of the podcast Ryan talks about the moment when his son asked him if he is afraid to die, the importance of valuing your time with you kids, and more. Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a custom bundle of cereal and start your New Year off right! And be sure to use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. Bespoke Post has a huge number of collections no matter what you’re into: the great outdoors, style, cooking, mixology, and more. Get 20% off your first monthly box when you sign up at boxofawesome.com and enter the code DAILYDAD at checkout. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, May 20, 2022
They Do Most of It
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Thu, May 19, 2022
Think The Unthinkable
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Wed, May 18, 2022
Why Do We Say This?
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Tue, May 17, 2022
You Say You Wish You Were Around More
Ryan talks about the importance of spending time with your children. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Mon, May 16, 2022
How to Get Them to Read (Or Do Anything)
Ryan talks about how you can get your kids to read more Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Sat, May 14, 2022
Daily Dad on Organizing Your Life
On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks to his friend and writing partner Nils Parker about how Ryan recently hired someone to help him organize his home. Kion Aminos is backed by over 20 years of clinical research, has the highest quality ingredients, no fillers or junk, undergoes rigorous quality testing, and tastes amazing with all-natural flavors. Go to getkion.com/dailydad to save 20% on subscriptions and 10% on one-time purchases. Grab your exclusive NordVPN deal by going to nordvpn.com/dailydad to get a huge discount off your Nord VPN plan+ Free threat protection + 1 additional month for free. It’s completely risk free with Nord’s 30 day money back guarantee. BetterHELP will assess your needs and match you with your own licensed professional therapist and you can start communicating in under 48 hours. Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/dailydad Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, May 13, 2022
Begin Anew, While You Can
Ryan talks about how to always start fresh. Kion Aminos is backed by over 20 years of clinical research, has the highest quality ingredients, no fillers or junk, undergoes rigorous quality testing, and tastes amazing with all-natural flavors. Go to getkion.com/dailydad to save 20% on subscriptions and 10% on one-time purchases. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Thu, May 12, 2022
What Can You Do?
Ryan talks about the the importance of focusing on what you can control. InsideTracker provides you with a personalized plan to improve your metabolism, reduce stress, improve sleep, and optimize your health for the long haul. For a limited time, get 20% off the entire InsideTracker store. Just go to insidetracker.com/DAILYDAD to claim this deal. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Wed, May 11, 2022
Not All Readers Are Good Parents, But All Good Parents Are Readers
Ryan talks about the value of developing a reading practice. Every week StoryWorth emails your loved one a different story prompt – questions you’ve never thought to ask. Get started right away with no shipping required by going to StoryWorth.com/dailydad . You’ll get $10 off your first purchase! That’s StoryWorth.com/dailydad for $10 off. If you want to become a great reader, the Stoics can help. We built out their best insights into our Read to Lead: A Daily Stoic Reading Challenge . Since it first launched in 2019, Read to Lead has been our most popular challenge, taken on by almost ten thousand participants. Today, we’re excited to announce that, for the first time ever, registration to join the 2022 live cohort is officially open . Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Tue, May 10, 2022
Teach Them To Choose
Ryan talks about preparing your kids for making decisions. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Mon, May 09, 2022
Here's How To Spend More Time With Them
Ryan talks about the importance of making time for your kids. Check out the new Daily Dad Tempus Fugit challenge coin at https://store.dailydad.com Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a variety pack and try it today. Use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Sat, May 07, 2022
Daily Dad on How to Live and Act Sustainably
On today’s episode of the Daily Dad Podcast Ryan talks about how his family is thinking about serving the common good, making the world a better place for future generations, the importance of thinking about our individual actions affect others, and more. InsideTracker provides you with a personalized plan to improve your metabolism, reduce stress, improve sleep, and optimize your health for the long haul. For a limited time, get 20% off the entire InsideTracker store. Just go to insidetracker.com/DAILYDAD to claim this deal. Sunday can help you grow a beautiful lawn without the guesswork OR nasty chemicals. Full-season plans start at just $129, and you can get 20% off at checkout when you visit GETSUNDAY.COM/DAILYDAD . Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube
Fri, May 06, 2022
Guilt Won't Help
Ryan talks about why guilt doesn’t help. Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a variety pack and try it today. Use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Thu, May 05, 2022
You Gotta Take An Interest
Ryan talks about why you have to be interested in your kids lives. If you want to become a great reader, the Stoics can help. We built out their best insights into our Read to Lead: A Daily Stoic Reading Challenge . Since it first launched in 2019, Read to Lead has been our most popular challenge, taken on by almost ten thousand participants. Today, we’re excited to announce that, for the first time ever, registration to join the 2022 live cohort is officially open . Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Wed, May 04, 2022
There Are So Many Ways for Them To Contribute
Ryan talks about how your kids can help. BetterHELP will assess your needs and match you with your own licensed professional therapist and you can start communicating in under 48 hours. Visit betterhelp.com/dailydad and join the over 1,000,000 people who have taken charge of their mental health with the help of an experienced professional. Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/dailydad Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Tue, May 03, 2022
This Is Making You So Much Better
Ryan talks about how much better this job is making you. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Mon, May 02, 2022
This is Always In Their Control
Ryan talks about why teaching your kids to focus on what they can control. Ritual is a multivitamin that delivers high quality nutrients, including Vitamin D3, in just 2 daily pills. Your multivitamins are delivered to your door every month with free shipping, always. You can start, snooze, or cancel your subscription anytime. Get key nutrients without the B.S. - Ritual is offering listeners 10% off during your first 3 months. Visit ritual.com/DAILYDAD to start your Ritual today. Get a copy of Cheryl Strayed’s “Tiny Beautiful Things” at the Painted Porch Bookshop. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Sat, April 30, 2022
Roosevelt Montas on Teaching the Classics to Kids
On today’s episode of the podcast Ryan talks to author Roosevelt Montas about how to make philosophy and the classics accessible to young children, how the classics connect to something in our humanity, how the ancient texts connect children and adults the same, and more. Roosevelt Montás is Director of the Freedom and Citizenship Program. He was born in the Dominican Republic and moved to New York as a teenager. Roosevelt specializes in Antebellum American literature and culture, with a particular interest in American national identity. He regularly teaches moral and political philosophy in the Columbia Core Curriculum as well seminars in American Studies. Roosevelt is the author of “Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation.” Kion Aminos is backed by over 20 years of clinical research, has the highest quality ingredients, no fillers or junk, undergoes rigorous quality testing, and tastes amazing with all-natural flavors. Go to getkion.com/dailydad to save 20% on subscriptions and 10% on one-time purchases. Grab your exclusive NordVPN deal by going to nordvpn.com/dailydad to get a huge discount off your Nord VPN plan+ Free threat protection + 1 additional month for free. It’s completely risk free with Nord’s 30 day money back guarantee. Every week StoryWorth emails your loved one a different story prompt – questions you’ve never thought to ask. Get started right away with no shipping required by going to StoryWorth.com/dailydad . You’ll get $10 off your first purchase. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Fri, April 29, 2022
They Listen Better Than You
Ryan talks about why you must listen to your children. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Thu, April 28, 2022
Compete On This
Ryan talks about what really matters in parenting. Hiya is the pediatrician-approved superpowered chewable vitamin created by two dads tired of children’s vitamins that cause more problems than they solve. Daily Dad listeners receive 50% off your first order. To claim this deal go to hiyahealth.com/DAILYDAD or enter code DAILYDAD at checkout. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Wed, April 27, 2022
What Kind Of Energy Are You Bringing?
Ryan talks about the importance of bringing the right energy to parenting. Kion Aminos is backed by over 20 years of clinical research, has the highest quality ingredients, no fillers or junk, undergoes rigorous quality testing, and tastes amazing with all-natural flavors. Go to getkion.com/dailydad to save 20% on subscriptions and 10% on one-time purchases. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Tue, April 26, 2022
Wherever They Are, You Are Too
Ryan talks about why you have to always stay beside your kids. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Mon, April 25, 2022
This Doesn’t Make It Right
Ryan talks about why you shouldn’t “love bomb” your kids. Sunday can help you grow a beautiful lawn without the guesswork OR nasty chemicals. Full-season plans start at just $129, and you can get 20% off at checkout when you visit GETSUNDAY.COM/DAILYDAD . Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Sat, April 23, 2022
Daily Dad on Finding Maximum Enjoyment with Minimum Cost
On today’s episode of the podcast Ryan talks about his families recent trip to a NASCAR race in Austin, how to raise kids who are aware of their situation and not spoiled, knowing how to find maximum enjoyment at minimum cost, and more. BetterHELP will assess your needs and match you with your own licensed professional therapist and you can start communicating in under 48 hours. Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/dailydad Ritual is a multivitamin that delivers high quality nutrients, including Vitamin D3, in just 2 daily pills. Get key nutrients without the B.S. - Ritual is offering listeners 10% off during your first 3 months. Visit ritual.com/DAILYDAD to start your Ritual today. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Fri, April 22, 2022
This Doesn’t Make It Right
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Thu, April 21, 2022
They Help You Notice Things
Ryan talks about why you should pay close attention to your kids. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Wed, April 20, 2022
Think The Unthinkable
Ryan talks about why you should be aware of the harsh realities of life. Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a variety pack and try it today. Use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Tue, April 19, 2022
They Can Make It Beautiful
Ryan talks about what you must give to your kids. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Mon, April 18, 2022
Who Gets Your Patience?
Ryan talks about where you should direct your patience. Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a variety pack and try it today. Use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Sat, April 16, 2022
Josh Peck on Breaking the Cycle of Generational Trauma
On today’s episode Ryan talks to actor Josh Peck about his experience growing up with a single mom and never meeting his father, the power of breaking the cycle of generational trauma, why parents have to embody the traits that they want their kids to have, and more. Josh Peck is an American actor, comedian, and YouTuber. Josh began his career as a child actor in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and had an early role on The Amanda Show from 2000 to 2002. Peck rose to prominence for his role as Josh Nichols alongside Drake Bell's character in the Nickelodeon sitcom Drake & Josh from 2004 to 2007, and in its two television films in 2006 and 2008. His new book, which was released just yesterday, “Happy People Are Annoying,” is a humorous and candid memoir reflecting on the stumbles and silver linings of his life—including early struggles with food, drugs, self-esteem, and self-sabotage—and traces a zigzagging path to redemption. Kion Aminos is backed by over 20 years of clinical research, has the highest quality ingredients, no fillers or junk, undergoes rigorous quality testing, and tastes amazing with all-natural flavors. Go to getkion.com/dailydad to save 20% on subscriptions and 10% on one-time purchases. Ten Thousand is offering our listeners 15% off your purchase. go to Tenthousand.cc and enter code DAILYDAD to receive 15% off your purchase. Sunday can help you grow a beautiful lawn without the guesswork OR nasty chemicals. Full-season plans start at just $129, and you can get 20% off at checkout when you visit GETSUNDAY.COM/DAILYDAD . Bespoke Post has a huge number of collections no matter what you’re into: the great outdoors, style, cooking, mixology, and more. Get 20% off your first monthly box when you sign up at boxofawesome.com and enter the code DAILYDAD at checkout. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Fri, April 15, 2022
This is The Real Dad Tax
Ryan talks about the true perk of parenting. Hiya is the pediatrician-approved superpowered chewable vitamin created by two dads tired of children’s vitamins that cause more problems than they solve. Daily Dad listeners receive 50% off your first order. To claim this deal go to hiyahealth.com/DAILYDAD or enter code DAILYDAD at checkout. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Thu, April 14, 2022
You Want Tough (But Practical) Kids
Ryan talks about the balance between discipline and practicality. Check out the new Daily Dad Luctor et Emergo challenge coin at https://store.dailydad.com BetterHELP will assess your needs and match you with your own licensed professional therapist and you can start communicating in under 48 hours. Visit betterhelp.com/dailydad and join the over 1,000,000 people who have taken charge of their mental health with the help of an experienced professional. Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/dailydad Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Wed, April 13, 2022
We Keep This From Our Kids
Ryan talks about your obligation to let your kids craft their own reality. Ten Thousand makes the highest quality, best-fitting, and most comfortable training gear. Ten Thousand is offering our listeners 15% off your purchase. go to Tenthousand.cc and enter code DAILYDAD to receive 15% off your purchase. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Tue, April 12, 2022
Don’t Give Them This
Ryan talks about why you should protect your kids from this dangerous feeling. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Mon, April 11, 2022
There Are Things Better To Just Not Think About
Ryan talks about the problems that are better left unsolved. Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a variety pack and try it today. Use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Sat, April 09, 2022
Daily Dad on Setting Priorities and Making Sacrifices
On today’s episode of the podcast Ryan talks about how he prefers to set priorities rather than concrete goals, how it’s easy to have ambitious personal goals but not make the proper sacrifices, and more. BetterHELP will assess your needs and match you with your own licensed professional therapist and you can start communicating in under 48 hours. Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/dailydad Thousand is offering our listeners 15% off your purchase. go to Tenthousand.cc and enter code DAILYDAD to receive 15% off your purchase. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Fri, April 08, 2022
Don’t Burden Them
Ryan talks about why you have to let your kids be who they are. Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a variety pack and try it today. Use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Thu, April 07, 2022
Give Them Something to Believe In
Ryan talks about why you have to be something strong for your kids. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Wed, April 06, 2022
This is When It Matters
Ryan talks about the most important time you have with your kids. Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a variety pack and try it today. Use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. Check out the new Daily Dad Tempus Fugit challenge coin at https://store.dailydad.com Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Tue, April 05, 2022
They Are Trying to Talk To You
Ryan talks about how you must always be willing to listen to your kids. Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a variety pack and try it today. Use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Mon, April 04, 2022
You’ll Never Be Proud Of This
Ryan talks about how to manage your temper with your kids. Sign up for the Daily Stoic Taming Your Temper Course at dailystoic.com/anger Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Sat, April 02, 2022
Daily Dad on the Balance Being Overly Permissive and too Strict
On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks to his friend and writing partner Nils Parker about how to think about the messages that they’re sending to their kids, how to teach your kids about the responsibility of taking care of things, and more. Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a custom bundle of cereal and start your New Year off right! And be sure to use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. Every week StoryWorth emails your loved one a different story prompt – questions you’ve never thought to ask. Get started right away with no shipping required by going to StoryWorth.com/dailydad . You’ll get $10 off your first purchase. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Fri, April 01, 2022
You Have To Explain
Ryan talks about why you owe your children an explanation. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Thu, March 31, 2022
Hit Them With One Of These
Ryan talks about why you should always be expressing your love to your children. Hiya is the pediatrician-approved superpowered chewable vitamin created by two dads tired of children’s vitamins that cause more problems than they solve. Daily Dad listeners receive 50% off your first order. To claim this deal go to hiyahealth.com/DAILYDAD or enter code DAILYDAD at checkout. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Wed, March 30, 2022
Make Sure They’re Drinking This
Ryan talks about the benefits of staying hydrated. Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a variety pack and try it today. Use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Tue, March 29, 2022
What Are Your Rules?
Ryan talks about the importance of instilling values into your kids. Hiya is the pediatrician-approved super-powered chewable vitamin created by two dads tired of children’s vitamins that cause more problems than they solve. Daily Dad listeners receive 50% off your first order. To claim this deal go to hiyahealth.com/DAILYDAD or enter code DAILYDAD at checkout. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Mon, March 28, 2022
There Is A Difference. A Big Difference.
Ryan talks about the difference between good and bad parenting. Hiya is the pediatrician-approved super-powered chewable vitamin created by two dads tired of children’s vitamins that cause more problems than they solve. Daily Dad listeners receive 50% off your first order. To claim this deal go to hiyahealth.com/DAILYDAD or enter code DAILYDAD at checkout. Do you want to feel like you are ready to take on life’s most challenging “job”? Take the first step today by committing the next 30 days to The Parent-To-Be: A Daily Dad Parenting Challenge . Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Sat, March 26, 2022
Daily Dad on Embracing the Ordinary
On today’s episode of the podcast Ryan talks about a recent trip that he went on with his kids, how important it is to embrace the ordinary experiences that your kids find extraordinary, Ritual is a multivitamin that delivers high quality nutrients, including Vitamin D3, in just 2 daily pills. Get key nutrients without the B.S. - Ritual is offering listeners 10% off during your first 3 months. Visit ritual.com/DAILYDAD to start your Ritual today. Every week StoryWorth emails your loved one a different story prompt – questions you’ve never thought to ask. Get started right away with no shipping required by going to StoryWorth.com/dailydad . You’ll get $10 off your first purchase. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Fri, March 25, 2022
Cherish the Good Moods
Ryan talks about why you should savor the moments when your kids are happy. Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a variety pack and try it today. Use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Thu, March 24, 2022
There’s Consequences To This Too
Ryan talks about why you should teach your children about the essential virtues, Hiya is the pediatrician-approved superpowered chewable vitamin created by two dads tired of children’s vitamins that cause more problems than they solve. Daily Dad listeners receive 50% off your first order. To claim this deal go to hiyahealth.com/DAILYDAD or enter code DAILYDAD at checkout. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Wed, March 23, 2022
You’ll Want Them Close
Ryan talks about why you must let your children be who they are. Bespoke Post has a huge number of collections no matter what you’re into: the great outdoors, style, cooking, mixology, and more. Get 20% off your first monthly box when you sign up at boxofawesome.com and enter the code DAILYDAD at checkout. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Tue, March 22, 2022
What Do They Worship?
Ryan talks about how important your children's heroes are. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Mon, March 21, 2022
Ignore it, Do Your Best
Ryan talks about why you have to tune out what other parents are doing. BetterHELP will assess your needs and match you with your own licensed professional therapist and you can start communicating in under 48 hours. Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/dailydad Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Sat, March 19, 2022
Daily Dad on the Power of Outsourcing and Delegating
On today’s episode of the podcast Ryan talks about his decision to hire a stylist to outsource the decision making of buying clothes, how parents should think about money and time, and more. Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a custom bundle of cereal and start your New Year off right! And be sure to use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. BetterHELP will assess your needs and match you with your own licensed professional therapist and you can start communicating in under 48 hours. Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/dailydad Bespoke Post has a huge number of collections no matter what you’re into: the great outdoors, style, cooking, mixology, and more. Get 20% off your first monthly box when you sign up at boxofawesome.com and enter the code DAILYDAD at checkout. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Fri, March 18, 2022
Are You Showing Them How To Be A Student?
Ryan talks about why you must teach your kids to value learning. 🎓 Sign up for Stoicism 101: Ancient Philosophy For Your Actual Life - https://dailystoic.com/101 Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a variety pack and try it today. Use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Thu, March 17, 2022
Two Rules To Teach Your Kids
Ryan talks about the importance of passing on guidelines to your children. Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a variety pack and try it today. Use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Wed, March 16, 2022
Your Job is to Support Your Spouse
Ryan talks about why all parents need a supporting cast. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Tue, March 15, 2022
What Are You Rushing From?
Ryan talks why you should slow down and appreciate the time you get with your kids. Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a variety pack and try it today. Use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. Check out the new Daily Dad Tempus Fugit challenge coin at https://store.dailydad.com Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Mon, March 14, 2022
Point Your Love in the Right Direction
Ryan talks about why your love is the only legacy that matters. Ten Thousand makes the highest quality, best-fitting, and most comfortable training gear. Ten Thousand is offering our listeners 15% off your purchase. go to Tenthousand.cc and enter code DAILYDAD to receive 15% off your purchase. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Sat, March 12, 2022
Daily Dad on Managing Your Relationship With Work
On today’s episode of the podcast Ryan talks about being on the final stretch of finishing his upcoming book, his goals as a writer and as a parent, and how you can be better at managing your relationship with work. Ten Thousand makes the highest quality, best-fitting, and most comfortable training gear. Ten Thousand is offering our listeners 15% off your purchase. go to Tenthousand.cc and enter code DAILYDAD to receive 15% off your purchase. Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a custom bundle of cereal and start your New Year off right! And be sure to use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Fri, March 11, 2022
Take The Second Chances When You Get Them
Ryan talks about how you should always be trying to improve as a parent. Magic Mind is the daily morning drink for creators, entrepreneurs & freelancers. Go to https://www.magicmind.co/DAILYDAD and use the discount code at checkout DAILYDAD to get a limited 20% off your first order. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Thu, March 10, 2022
We Are In Touch With Eternity
Ryan talks about the timeless nature of parenting. BetterHELP will assess your needs and match you with your own licensed professional therapist and you can start communicating in under 48 hours. Visit betterhelp.com/dailydad and join the over 2,000,000 people who have taken charge of their mental health with the help of an experienced professional. Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/dailydad Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Wed, March 09, 2022
Don’t Just Read To Your Kids, Re-Read
Ryan talks about why you should always go back to great books that you’ve already read to your kids. Magic Mind is the daily morning drink for creators, entrepreneurs & freelancers. Go to https://www.magicmind.co/DAILYDAD and use the discount code at checkout DAILYDAD to get a limited 20% off your first order. Do you want to feel like you are ready to take on life’s most challenging “job”? Take the first step today by committing the next 30 days to The Parent-To-Be: A Daily Dad Parenting Challenge . Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Tue, March 08, 2022
They Came In Like a Wrecking Ball
Ryan talks about the reality of raising kids. Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a variety pack and try it today. Use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Mon, March 07, 2022
You Can Survive Anything
Ryan talks about why you’ve got what it takes. Ritual is a multivitamin that delivers high quality nutrients, including Vitamin D3, in just 2 daily pills. Your multivitamins are delivered to your door every month with free shipping, always. You can start, snooze, or cancel your subscription anytime. Get key nutrients without the B.S. - Ritual is offering listeners 10% off during your first 3 months. Visit ritual.com/DAILYDAD to start your Ritual today. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Sat, March 05, 2022
Daily Dad on Navigating Difficult Relationships
On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks to his friend and writing partner Nils Parker about how to handle relationships with people who have developed completely different views, the importance of compartmentalizing, BetterHELP will assess your needs and match you with your own licensed professional therapist and you can start communicating in under 48 hours. Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/dailydad Magic Mind is the daily morning drink for creators, entrepreneurs & freelancers. Go to https://www.magicmind.co/DAILYDAD and use the discount code at checkout DAILYDAD to get a limited 20% off your first order. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Fri, March 04, 2022
This Must Be The Top Priority
Ryan talks about why your kids should be number one. Bespoke Post has a huge number of collections no matter what you’re into: the great outdoors, style, cooking, mixology, and more. Get 20% off your first monthly box when you sign up at boxofawesome.com and enter the code DAILYDAD at checkout. Show your support for freedom and democracy in Ukraine and the world, donate here: https://www.comebackalive.in.ua/ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Thu, March 03, 2022
Hang This Up On Your Wall
Ryan talks about lessons that we can take from Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky. BetterHELP will assess your needs and match you with your own licensed professional therapist and you can start communicating in under 48 hours. Visit betterhelp.com/dailydad and join the over 1,000,000 people who have taken charge of their mental health with the help of an experienced professional. Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/dailydad Show your support for freedom and democracy in Ukraine and the world, donate here: https://www.comebackalive.in.ua/ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Wed, March 02, 2022
Please Encourage Them To Do This
Ryan talks about the power of journaling and why you should pass it on to your kids. Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a variety pack and try it today. Use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. Get a signed and personalized copy of Ryan Holiday’s book Stillness Is The Key in the Daily Stoic Store and at The Painted Porch . Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Tue, March 01, 2022
It’s Painful But It’s Made You Invincible
Ryan talks about why parenting changes your relationship with time. BetterHELP will assess your needs and match you with your own licensed professional therapist and you can start communicating in under 48 hours. Visit betterhelp.com/dailydad and join the over 1,000,000 people who have taken charge of their mental health with the help of an experienced professional. Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/dailydad Check out the new Daily Dad Luctor et Emergo challenge coin at https://store.dailydad.com Get a signed and personalized copy of Ryan Holiday’s book Stillness Is The Key in the Daily Stoic Store and at The Painted Porch . Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Mon, February 28, 2022
Be Careful or You’ll Miss It
Ryan talks about why parenting changes your relationship with time. Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a variety pack and try it today. Use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. Get a signed and personalized copy of Ryan Holiday’s book Stillness Is The Key in the Daily Stoic Store and at The Painted Porch . Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Sat, February 26, 2022
Dailly Dad on Viewing Time With Your Kids as a Gift
On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks about how to view setbacks or delays as an excuse to spend more time your kids, why there’s very few things in life that are as important as spending time with your kids, and more. Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a custom bundle of cereal and start your New Year off right! And be sure to use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. Ritual is a multivitamin that delivers high quality nutrients, including Vitamin D3, in just 2 daily pills. Get key nutrients without the B.S. - Ritual is offering listeners 10% off during your first 3 months. Visit ritual.com/DAILYDAD to start your Ritual today. Magic Mind is the daily morning drink for creators, entrepreneurs & freelancers. Go to https://www.magicmind.co/DAILYDAD and use the discount code at checkout DAILYDAD to get a limited 20% off your first order. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Fri, February 25, 2022
Don’t Deprive Them Of This
Ryan talks about why you should let your kids cultivate some time with themselves. Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to magicspoon.com/DAILYDAD to grab a variety pack and try it today. Use our promo code DAILYDAD at checkout to save five dollars off your order. Get a signed and personalized copy of Ryan Holiday’s book Stillness Is The Key in the Daily Stoic Store and at The Painted Porch . Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Thu, February 24, 2022
We’re All In The Same Boat Now
Ryan talks about the great equalizer that is parenting. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
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