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Your kids are well behaved…where it counts. 👉 SPECIAL OFFER | Go to  dailystoic.com/spring  and enter code  DSPOD20  at checkout to get   20% off the  Spring Forward Challenge ! Challenge yourself to spring forward and become the person you aspire to be.  The Spring Forward Challenge  starts March 20, 2026. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email:  DailyDad...

Ryan and Sam sit down in the studio and attempt to have a normal conversation. Kids, animals, marriage, miscommunication… and plenty of unexpected turns along the way. 👉 SPECIAL OFFER | Go to  dailystoic.com/spring  and enter code  DSPOD20  at checkout to get   20% off the  Spring Forward Challenge ! Challenge yourself to spring forward and become the person you aspi...

It goes by very fast…and when it’s gone, it is gone. 🏛 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/ 👉 SPECIAL OFFER | Go to  dailystoic.com/spring  and enter code  DSPOD20  at checkout to get   20% off the  Spring Forward Challenge ! Challenge yourself to spring forwar...

When do you make time to do the things that you need to do? The things you want to tackle and clear out and fix up and organize Because those things start to weigh you down. They start to pile up. 👉 SPECIAL OFFER | Go to  dailystoic.com/spring  and enter code  DSPOD20  at checkout to get   20% off the  Spring Forward Challenge ! Challenge yourself to spring forward a...

If you’re arguing or fighting with your kids about something, you’re wrong, ok? 📚 Book Mentioned: Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents 👉 SPECIAL OFFER | Go to  dailystoic.com/spring  and enter code  DSPOD20  at checkout to get   20% off the  Spring Forward Challenge ! Challenge yourself to spring forward and become the person you aspire to be.  The Sp...

Our children aren't just observing our daily routines—they're being taught what it means to be an adult from our example SPECIAL OFFER exclusively for podcast listeners  👉 Go to  dailystoic.com/spring  and enter code  DSPOD20  at checkout to get   20% off the  Spring Forward Challenge ! Challenge yourself to spring forward and become the person you aspire to be....

There’s a reason we don’t always say what we think. There’s a reason we keep our feelings hidden away. SPECIAL OFFER exclusively for podcast listeners  👉 Go to  dailystoic.com/spring  and enter code  DSPOD20  at checkout to get   20% off the  Spring Forward Challenge ! Challenge yourself to spring forward and become the person you aspire to be.  The Spring...

Ever wake up already feeling behind, before the emails, before school drop-off, before anything has actually gone wrong? In this episode, Ryan talks with Oliver Burkeman, bestselling author of 4,000 Weeks and Meditations for Mortals , about that “back foot” feeling so many parents live in. Ryan and Oliver talk about why we give our best energy to trivial things, why we say yes when we mean no, and...

Just as the flowers bloom and trees grow, our children are growing, too.  SPECIAL OFFER exclusively for podcast listeners 👉 Go to dailystoic.com/spring and enter code DSPOD20 at checkout to get 20% off the Spring Forward Challenge ! Challenge yourself to spring forward and become the person you aspire to be. The Spring Forward Challenge starts March 20, 2026. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad ema...

Stop worrying what random strangers think. Worry what your kids will think. 👉 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 See Privacy Policy at...

They’ve literally never done this before. This is their first time on the planet. 👉 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 See Privacy Poli...

This stuff is not that serious. None of it is. 👉 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 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and...

It’s kind of crazy how crazy things are right now. All that you have going on. All the stress that raising a family entails.  🏛 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/ 👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join  The Daily Dad Society  here: &nbs...

If you’ve ever been called “airport dad” or married to one, this episode is for you. From school attendance to airport stress to the worst-case scenarios we play out in our heads, Ryan and Sam talk about the cost of constantly expecting something to go wrong and what might change if you didn’t. 👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join  The Daily Da...

Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone—those that are now, and those to come. 🏛 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/ 👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join  The Daily Dad Society  here:  https://dailydad.com/society ✉️...

Take the opportunity. Encourage the interest. Show them that you’re interested in what interests them. 👉 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 ,  You...

Why is it that so many of us try to impress ambition on our kids? Why are we trying to push them to become famous or powerful? Have we not seen the people who tend to get to these positions? Have we not seen how it works out for them? 📚 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 Abo...

What matters is responding with kindness and love. What matters is knowing that they are good and that they are loved and nothing anyone else thinks can change that. 👉 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...

You might not be able to keep track of the time zone or the days anymore, but that’s not an excuse for forgetting what’s going on with them. 👉 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 , ...

It’s our job as parents to remind our kids that they’re not powerless, that no matter what’s happening around them, they can create change in themselves and in their communities. In this episode, Sharon McMahon, author of The Small and the Mighty , joins Ryan to talk about how we instill real, grounded hope in our kids and help them see that making a difference isn’t reserved for someone else. It’...

There are consequences to our decisions, the decision to work too much, to check out of a marriage, to not deal with our issues. The problem is that we fool ourselves believing that we can live with those consequences.  📚 Books Mentioned Composed by Roseanne Cash Stillness Is The Key by Ryan Holiday 👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join  T...

No one has ever looked back as their kids grew up or at the end of their own life and thought, “Perfect attendance was worth 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 ,...

It’s crazy. It’s painful to think how little we have left, how little is left of their childhood, how little time there is left, period. You can let that thought depress you…or clarify. 👉 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.co...

It starts off so exciting. You’re thrust into a totally new situation— you have a kid. And then so much happens and keeps happening. But then what 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:  T...