The Daily Dad

You have to decide that the kids are the center of your life—not conferences, not meetings, not being ‘in the room where it happens.’  👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join  The Daily Dad Society  here:  https://dailydad.com/society ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email:  DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad:  Twitter ,  I...

In a world full of misinformation  and  misdirection, isn’t this the inheritance we want to pass down? To show our children how to master their minds and hold onto their inner freedom no matter the situation? 💡 We designed our How To Read Epictetus (A Daily Stoic Guide) as a personal field guide —part book club, part masterclass, part daily practice. It’s designed to help you not just r...

You want to make good time. You don’t want to be delayed. You don’t want to linger. But why? 👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join  The Daily Dad Society  here:  https://dailydad.com/society ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email:  DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad:  Twitter ,  Instagram ,  Facebook ,  YouTube Hoste...

Make sure they know how to decide, and to be OK with it, even if they decide wrong. 👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join  The Daily Dad Society  here:  https://dailydad.com/society ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email:  DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad:  Twitter ,  Instagram ,  Facebook ,  YouTube Hosted on Acas...

Of all the things parents have to worry about, their kid picking up a banned book shouldn’t be one of them. In today’s episode, Ryan and Sam talk about banned books, what happens when kids discover something adults have labeled “inappropriate,” and the parenting opportunity hidden inside that moment. 📚 Got a banned book at home? Send it our way — we need a lot more   👉 Address: 912 Main St....

You work all day. What you do is important…and more important, it’s what pays for your whole life. But what happens when you get home? 📚 Books mentioned:  The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin 👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join  The Daily Dad Society  here:  https://daily...

Who cares? Not you…because you assume someone else will care. 📚 Book mentioned: Fair Play by Eve Rodsky 👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join  The Daily Dad Society  here:  https://dailydad.com/society ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email:  DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad:  Twitter ,  Instagram ,  Facebook ,  Y...

It can be revealing, when you put it all down on paper. Whether it’s looking at your monthly spending or your daily eating habits, sometimes you don’t know until you see it all recorded. 👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join  The Daily Dad Society  here:  https://dailydad.com/society ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email:  DailyDad.c...

Sure, more money is better than less…but only to a point, only within reasonable boundaries.  Full episode with Ron Chernow : Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube 📚Pick up a copy of Mark Twain by Ron Chernow at The Painted Porch : https://www.thepaintedporch.com/ 👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join  The Daily Dad Society  here:  ...

Our job is to support our kids, to root for them, to let them become who they are. But that’s not a blank check. 👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join  The Daily Dad Society  here:  https://dailydad.com/society ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email:  DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad:  Twitter ,  Instagram ,  Facebook ,...

Kids approach creativity with a freedom most adults have forgotten. In this episode, Ryan talks with bestselling author Austin Kleon about why having children can enrich your creative life, finding time for creative work, and why parenting and creativity do not have to compete with each other. Austin Kleon is a writer, author, artist, speaker, and blogger. He is most known for his  New York T...

While we don’t have our families as much as we like, as inevitable as partings are, as constant as the missing is, we do get to carry them with us 🎶 Song lyrics: New Order T-Shirt - The National 👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join  The Daily Dad Society  here:  https://dailydad.com/society ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email:  D...

Right now, you have them. That does not last forever. 👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join  The Daily Dad Society  here:  https://dailydad.com/society ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email:  DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad:  Twitter ,  Instagram ,  Facebook ,  YouTube Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...

Our kids don’t always need another lecture. They don’t always need us to explain it one more time. They need us to help them see it. 📚 Pick up a copy of Mark Twain by Ron Chernow at The Painted Porch : https://www.thepaintedporch.com/ 🎥 Watch Ron Chernow’s episode on The Daily Stoic Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvSgng0jogo 👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, struct...

Where could you be more affectionate and connected and loving? And more importantly, what do you think it would change if you did? 👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join  The Daily Dad Society  here:  https://dailydad.com/society ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email:  DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad:  Twitter ,  Instagram...

You don’t have to spoil your kids, but as we’ve said, you can and must take them seriously. 👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join  The Daily Dad Society  here:  https://dailydad.com/society ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email:  DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad:  Twitter ,  Instagram ,  Facebook ,  YouTube H...

Long walks, travel delays, upset stomachs, public meltdowns, and at least one parent swearing they are never leaving the house again. In today’s episode, Ryan and Sam talk about why the hardest trips often build the most character and somehow become the memories everyone wants to relive. 👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join  The Daily Dad Socie...

We all wrongly think of these milestones as points our kids will reach someday, as opposed to transitions that are already ongoing. 👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join  The Daily Dad Society  here:  https://dailydad.com/society ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email:  DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad:  Twitter ,  Instagram...

You deserve time with them. But you’re going to have to fight for it and protect it.  📚 Books mentioned: The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin 📕 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! 👉 Give yourself the ultimate gi...

You only get so much time with them. This is how you’re going to spend it? 👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join  The Daily Dad Society  here:  https://dailydad.com/society ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email:  DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad:  Twitter ,  Instagram ,  Facebook ,  YouTube Hosted on Acast. See ac...

Constantly fretting and being anxious about your kids does not make them feel like you care about them and doing it now certainly doesn’t compensate for any neglect in the past. 👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join  The Daily Dad Society  here:  https://dailydad.com/society ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email:  DailyDad.com 📱 Fol...

Your emotions, moods, choices and the examples you set are affecting your kids, always. 👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join  The Daily Dad Society  here:  https://dailydad.com/society ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email:  DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad:  Twitter ,  Instagram ,  Facebook ,  YouTube Hosted on...

A family road trip will test your patience, your plans, and your ability to stay calm when everything starts going sideways. In today’s episode, Ryan reflects on the unexpected problems, meaningful moments, and parenting lessons that came from driving the West Coast with his family. He also shares the rule he tries to follow so that, no matter what happens, everyone still wants to take the next tr...

Every family has an uphill they’re climbing, even as we’re climbing our own. 👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join  The Daily Dad Society  here:  https://dailydad.com/society ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email:  DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad:  Twitter ,  Instagram ,  Facebook ,  YouTube Hosted on Acast....

Our job as parents is to give our kids access to ideas and worlds, to  surround them with books , to encourage them to go where their interests take them—even if we sometimes disagree, even if some of them make us uncomfortable.  👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join  The Daily Dad Society  here:  https://dailydad.com/society...