The Daily Dad

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.

Family fun hits different when there’s a flight to catch. In this episode, Ryan and Sam talk about what happened when a spontaneous stop at a state park turned into tired kids, dragging feet, a looming flight, and Ryan suddenly rushing everyone through the family detour he had been excited for. 👉 Join  The Daily Dad Society :   https://dailydad.com/society ✉️ Sign up for the Daily...

It can seem like they don’t like what you like. It can even seem like they don’t like  you. That’s what children do, after all, they try to discover what  they  like. 📚 Book mentioned: Letter to the Father by Franz Kafka Join  The Daily Dad Society :   https://dailydad.com/society ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email:  DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad:  Twitt...

We say our kids are important—but words don’t matter. Our choices are what matter. 👉 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/habits Join  The Daily Dad Society :  &n...

They need literature. They need to know the myths. They need to know the riveting moments of human history.  👉 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 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Pri...

How often are you saying “no” when they want to connect, when they want to do something, when they ask for attention or time together? 👉 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 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/priva...

Our job is to drag them around, to expose them to things, to get them to where they need to be…but aren’t they also doing the same thing for us? 👉 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 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice...

Kids have big emotions. Parents do too. The work is not pretending those feelings are not there, but learning how to stay in the driver’s seat when they show up. In this episode, Ryan talks with Dr. Becky Kennedy about deeply feeling kids, why so much “bad behavior” is really a lack of skills, and how parents can respond with more patience. Dr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist, bestselling...

Enjoy it while you have it. Because you’re losing a little bit of it everyday. 👉 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 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/pr...

Are you stuck in your comfort zone? Are you practicing good boundaries? Are you challenging yourself to grow and change? Every day presents us with plenty of opportunities to make beautiful choices. 👉 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...

If being understood is not in our control, there is something quite wonderful that  is  in our control: Understanding. 👉 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 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and...