The Daily Dad

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...

Don’t wait. Don’t hold back. Tell them. Tell them again.  📚 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:  https://dailydad.com/society ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email:  DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Da...

Make the memory. Play the game. Because this is what it’s about. 👉 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/pr...

If the point is for our family to be together, if the point is for us to have fun together, to relax together, to get closer together, we need to start much earlier. 👉 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 Da...

Your kids don’t need you to pretend you have it all figured out. In this episode, Ryan talks with Jon Gustin , creator of The Tired Dad , about losing your temper, apologizing, repairing after mistakes, and why showing your kids that you’re human can make them feel safer, not less secure.  Jon Gustin is the founder of The Tired Dad LLC and the voice behind The Tired Dad, a movement built arou...

What matters isn’t how you see yourself or how others see you. What matters is that you be what, and who, they need you to be. 👉 Join  The Daily Dad Society :   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 more...

You can always find a way if you try. And it’s going to be an important moment.  👉 Join  The Daily Dad Society :   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 more information.

It’s not our job as parents to give them everything they want. It is our job to help them with these very reasonable feelings.  Listen to the full podcast episode with Dr. Becky Kennedy 👉  Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify 📕 Grab signed copies of Dr. Becky’s books  Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be  and  Leave Me Alone!: A Good Inside Story Ab...

 How many of us wish we could tear ourselves away from our phones and spend more intentional time with our kids and families?  👉 The Daily Stoic Habits for Success, Habits for Happiness course is a six-week challenge designed to change your entire relationship with habits for the better. Sign up to take the first step toward a more effective, happier life | https://challenge.dailystoic.com/h...

Children are a ticking clock. They are on their way to not being children. 👉 Join  The Daily Dad Society :   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 more information.