The Daily Dad
The audio companion to DailyDad.com’s daily email meditations on fatherhood, read by Ryan Holiday. Each daily reading helps you find the wisdom, inner strength, and good humor needed to be a great dad. Learn from historical figures and contemporary fathers how to do your most important job.
Episodes
How To Stay Calm When Your Kid Isn’t | Dr. Becky Kennedy
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, bes
It Won’t Last Much Longer
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, YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do
Are You a Good Example to Them?
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
Give Them What You Didn’t Get
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, YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Californi
These Are Not Unreasonable Feelings
Their feelings are reasonable. They’re just struggling a little bit at dealing with them, at understanding how to express them and how seriously to take them.How to Feel Everything Without Losing Control | 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 her children’s book Leave Me Alone!:
It’s Not Only Happening to Everyone Else
They were kids, just recently! But now they’re grown up.👉 Join The Daily Dad Society: https://dailydad.com/society✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Let Your Kids Have the Emotion | Ryan and Sam Holiday
Kids don’t come into the world knowing how to handle disappointment, frustration, or overwhelm. In today’s episode, Ryan and Sam talk about executive function, big feelings, and the difference between telling our kids something and actually helping them process it. They also talk through something every parent runs into: when do we help our kids calm down, and when do we just let them fee
Suddenly, They Won’t Care
They’re growing up before your eyes. Make sure you see it.👉 Join The Daily Dad Society: https://dailydad.com/society✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
This is How You Brighten A Place Up
You might think your house is a mess. You might be a little embarrassed to have people over. But you shouldn’t 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, YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy No
You’re Not Supposed to Be Enough
We are not meant to parent alone. We are not enough people to possibly handle this responsibility alone.👉 Join The Daily Dad Society: https://dailydad.com/society✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at ht
It Feels Good For a Moment…And Then Horrible
Has there ever been a parent who didn’t yell, who didn’t lose their cool? Probably not.🪙 Carry The Daily Stoic Pause & Reflect Medallion as a reminder to pause. A pause creates space. A pause creates clarity. A pause can change everything. | Grab The Daily Stoic Pause & Reflect Medallion at dailystoic.com/pause👉 Join The Daily Dad Society: https://dailydad.com/soci
How Much Longer Will They Want To Do This?
There are a million reasons not to go. But it’s worth asking, as you run through these excuses, how much longer will they want to do this?👉 Join The Daily Dad Society: https://dailydad.com/society✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Ca
A Father’s Most Important Legacy | Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling
In honor of Father's Day weekend, Ryan talks with Lieutenant General (Ret.) Mark Hertling about fatherhood, legacy, and the lessons we hope our children take with them. During a wartime deployment, Mark began writing a journal for his sons in case he did not return home. What started as a way to leave them guidance became a reflection on character, failure, leadership, and what it really
Your Worries Are Your Problem
Let them live their life. Let them make mistakes. That’s the whole point.📚 Book Mentioned: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion👉 Join The Daily Dad Society before Father’s Day and get $60 off your yearly membership with code FATHERSDAY: https://dailydad.com/society✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram,&n
You Have To Give Them Access
We want to make sure our kids have opportunities in life. But sometimes, we neglect one of the easiest ways to help them get ahead.👉 Join The Daily Dad Society before Father’s Day and get $60 off your yearly membership with code FATHERSDAY: https://dailydad.com/society✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, 
This is Why You’ll Miss It
You’ve got a long commute to school and then the office. They never sleep. There’s drama in the mom or dad group. It’s a lot. It’s also nothing!📚 Books Mentioned: A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck👉 Join The Daily Dad Society before Father’s Day and get $60 off your yearly membership with code FATHERSDAY: https://dailydad.com/society✉️ Sign up
You’ve Got Yourself a Wild Animal
Plato, with total seriousness (and probably a bit of humor too), said that “of all the wild things, a boy is the most difficult to handle.” A lot of parents would agree to that.🎙️ Check out Richard Reeves episode on the Daily Stoic Podcast | Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube📚 Grab a copy of Of Boys and Men by Richard Reeves at The Painted Porch | https://www.thepaintedporch.com/👉 Join 
It’s Not Selfish. It’s Essential.
One thing far too many parents have in common is that they are always putting off taking care of themselves. This may come from a good place, but the results are good for no one.👉 Join The Daily Dad Society before Father’s Day and get $60 off your yearly membership with code FATHERSDAY: https://dailydad.com/society✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follo
15 Books That Will Make You a Better Parent
Instead of learning everything through trial and error, we can learn from the experiences and mistakes of others. Nowhere is that more important than in parenting. In today's episode, Ryan is sharing some of his favorite parenting books and the best lessons he has taken from them.📚 Books Mentioned: https://www.thepaintedporch.com/collections/15-books-that-will-make-you-a-better-parent👉 Jo
This Is Worth It
Take the time while you can. Experience new places, new experiences together while you can.👉 Join The Daily Dad Society before Father’s Day and get $60 off your yearly membership with code FATHERSDAY: https://dailydad.com/society✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTubeSee Privacy Polic
Don’t Fritter It Away
When you look back and wonder where the time went, where their childhood went, it’s going to break your heart to have to account for how you spent it, for how much of it you wasted.👉 Join The Daily Dad Society before Father’s Day and get $60 off your yearly membership with code FATHERSDAY: https://dailydad.com/society✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Fo
They Really Just Don’t Get It
They didn’t understand you? Of course they’re confused. Welcome to being a kid. 👉 Join The Daily Dad Society before Father’s Day and get $60 off your yearly membership with code FATHERSDAY: https://dailydad.com/society✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at
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. 👉 Join The Daily Dad Society before Father’s Day and get $60 off your yearly membership with code FATHERSDAY: https://dailydad.com/society✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: 
Let Them Be Bored
Some kids are extroverts. Some are introverts. But every kid needs to know how to be alone.🎟️ DAILY STOIC LIVE | Ryan Holiday is coming to a city near you! Grab tickets here | https://www.dailystoiclive.com/👉 Join The Daily Dad Society before Father’s Day and get $60 off your yearly membership with code FATHERSDAY: https://dailydad.com/so
The Kids Are Fine. The House Is Not. | Ryan and Sam Holiday
The kids are fine. The house, on the other hand, has raccoons in the walls and a bird flying around upstairs. In today’s episode, Ryan and Sam talk about the illusion of having it all together, how often parents say no without realizing it, and one of the parenting lessons Ryan has taken from The Daily Dad Society.👉 Join The Daily Dad Society before Father’s Day and get $60 off
Suddenly You Don’t See Them
Their own life is gathering up speed, their own interests and obligations are on a collision course with yours. 👉 Join The Daily Dad Society before Father’s Day and get $60 off your yearly membership with code FATHERSDAY: https://dailydad.com/society✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook,&nbs
They Are The Perfect Child
They are doing what kids do and have always done. And your job? Your job is to be patient and understanding.👉 Join The Daily Dad Society before Father’s Day and get $60 off your yearly membership with code FATHERSDAY: https://dailydad.com/society✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
This Is How You Get Better
We can get a little bit better each day. And you don’t have to do it alone.👉 Join The Daily Dad Society before Father’s Day and get $60 off your yearly membership with code FATHERSDAY: https://dailydad.com/society✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art
You Keep What You Can Of Them
It’s worth remembering, as we’ve said, that you’ll be nostalgic for this moment later on, that you’ll be jealous of this person you are now soon enough.👉 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: Twitt
Find The Things Where They're Happy To be With You
Look for those things that would make them happy to be with you—and use them as an excuse to spend time together. Whatever it is, get into it to be with them.🎥 Watch "I Talked To 50 Dads At The Eras Tour" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9XN1iOungs👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join The Daily Dad Society here: https://d
Never Say This To Your Kid | Jon Gustin
The words we say to our kids don’t just disappear. They become part of how our kids understand themselves, what they believe they deserve, and what they carry into the world. In today’s episode, Ryan talks with Jon Gustin, creator of The Tired Dad, about the small comments parents make without thinking, the messages kids hear underneath them, and how to create a home where they feel safe,
They Won’t Love This Forever
None of it lasts, and soon enough you will miss 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/👉 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:&nb
If Money Could Talk, This is What It Would Say
If you’re in a position to spend, to support, to give—well, now is the time. 📚 Grab a copy of Die With Zero by Bill Perkins | 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 Dad:
Is This Really How You Want Tonight To Go?
Why are you choosing to pick this battle? Why are you on them about something so insignificant?👉 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, YouTubeSee Privac
These Are Rules for Life
As parents, our job isn’t just to raise kids—it’s to raise confident, virtuous humans.📚 The Four Virtues Boxed Set: https://dailystoic.com/virtuesboxset👉 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:
You Never Know Where They’ll Find Their Thing
You don’t know—nobody does—where your kids will find their thing. That thing that lights them up, that makes them think for the first time, I want to do that with my life.👉 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 Da
Let Your Kids Love What They Love | Ryan Holiday
Our kids are going to love things we don’t understand. They’re going to get into costumes, music, shoes, games, and whole worlds that aren’t our thing. In today’s episode, Ryan talks about taking his kids to the Renaissance Fair, resisting the urge to judge, and why one of the best things we can do as parents is simple: let them love what they love.👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of par
This is All You Get
You get them all the time…and then suddenly this is all you get of 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/👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join The Daily Dad Society here: https://dailydad.com/society✉️ Sign up
What Your Children Learn From Your Anger
The wise don't fly off the handle. They don't say the first thought that enters their mind. 🪙 Carry The Daily Stoic Pause & Reflect Medallion as a reminder to pause. A pause creates space. A pause creates clarity. A pause can change everything. | Grab The Daily Stoic Pause & Reflect Medallion at dailystoic.com/pause👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structu
Let These Guide You
Memorize these four virtues. Act on them. Live them. Parent by them. 📚 The Stoic Virtues Series teaches the timeless principles of Courage, Discipline, Justice, and Wisdom through history’s greatest examples. Check out The Four Virtues Boxed Set here: https://dailystoic.com/virtuesboxset👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, an
They Need To Hear It Again
They’re going to need to hear it explained, over and over and over. 👉 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, YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://ar
You Won’t Regret It.
Do you think anyone has ever really regretted choosing family first?👉 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, YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.c
Stop Taking the Bait | Ryan and Sam Holiday
In today’s episode, Ryan and Sam talk about one of those parenting moments that feels huge in the moment and totally ridiculous five minutes later, why kids sometimes bait us into arguments, and how easily we can turn a small thing into a battle for control. 👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join The Daily Dad Society here: http
What’s The Secret to Your Hardest Job?
Should we just read the latest parenting book until we have it memorized? Should we call our own parents every time we have an issue?👉 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'd Give It All For This
You tell yourself that, one day, things will calm down. And then one day, they do.🎥 Episodes Mentioned: Bert KreischerPete Holmes👉 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,&nbs
You Have The Perfect Teenager
Your job is to help them become an adult…which means first being a perfect (and overwhelmingly difficult) teenager.👉 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,&nb
It's Supposed To Be Difficult
Ideas and discussions are not always going to be comfortable. Just like an equation, we have to work at them.📚 Books mentioned: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: and Other Stories by Ambrose Bierce👉 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:&nbs
Do You Know Where They Are?
Know where they are. Know what they’re doing. Let that root you, let that keep you even.👉 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, YouTubeSee Privacy Polic
Ryan Holiday’s Wake-Up Call
In today’s episode, Ryan reflects on how quickly our kids grow up, how easily time slips by in the day-to-day routine, and why seeing other people’s children get older can remind us of what’s happening in our own homes. It’s a tempus fugit reminder to slow down, pay attention, and not take these years for granted.🏛 Get your own Tempus Fugit Medallion to remind yourself of this at The Dail
Mothers Are the Quiet Heroes of History
Ahead of Mother’s Day this weekend, let us rectify this by looking at the woman who raised one of the great figures in all of history—and got very little credit for it.🎟️ Ryan Holiday is coming to a city near you! Grab tickets here | https://www.dailystoiclive.com/👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join The Daily
Could You Do This for Them?
Emotional regulation, while more difficult for some than others, is a habit like anything else. The more you practice it, the more you are aware of it, the more you reflect on it, the better you’ll get at it.🎟️ Ryan Holiday is coming to a city near you! Grab tickets here | https://www.dailystoiclive.com/👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community.
Now is the Time
Now is the time to be busy. Now is the time to have the experiences.👉 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, YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.c
Show Them The Wow in the World
We want them to believe—to know—that they can contribute to that beauty in life, that beauty in the world. Because they can🎙️ Check out the Wow in the World podcast 👉 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
Worry Is Not Love
Your worry is your problem. It is not a weight you get to put on them to make yourself feel better. 👉 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
What Bruce Springsteen Teaches About Raising Kids
Some of the best parenting advice you’ll ever hear is hidden in a Bruce Springsteen song. In today’s episode, Ryan shares some of his favorite lessons on parenting and life drawn from Bruce’s music, inspired by taking his kids to see him in concert last week. 📚 For more, grab a copy of The Daily Dad. 👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join 
We Can Choose to Get Back on Track
We’re not what we want to be—what we promised ourselves we’d be, what we owe to our kids. And?👉 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, YouTubeSee Privacy
They Want To Do This…And You Have a Problem With That?
Your kids are asking to do something in the real world…say yes!📚 Books Mentioned: Outdoor Kids in an Inside WorldCatch a Crayfish, Count the Stars: Fun Projects, Skills, and Adventures for Outdoor Kids👉 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
Parenting is Slow Work
Why won’t they listen? Why do they do the opposite of what you ask of them? Are you just wasting your breath?👉 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
They Do Not Grow Up
Our kids do not grow up someday. Our kids are growing up.👉 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, YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy
Don’t Weigh Them Down
Your kids are a fresh start. Don’t deprive them of these forces for good. Don’t weigh them down with your baggage.👉 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,&nbs
The Best Inside Jokes With Your Kids Start Here
The best inside jokes with your kids don’t just happen. In this episode, Ryan shares how a simple habit of bringing interesting stories into everyday moments has turned into laughter, connection, and shared memories with his kids. 👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join The Daily Dad Society here: https://dailydad.com/society✉️ S
They Need Stories
We have done ourselves and our children a grave disservice by puncturing every myth and subjecting every story to the lens of political correctness.📚 Book Mentioned:History Matters The Boy Who Would Be King The Girl Who Would Be Free: A Fable About Epictetus 👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join The Daily Dad Society here: http
Time is Racing Toward Us
We can’t defer. We can’t delay. We have to take the time now. 👉 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, YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.co
This Is Your Best?
If we want to grow, we have to reflect. Not just when we blow it. Not just when there’s a crisis.If today’s episode resonates with you and you’re interested in a structured path to becoming the parent you aspire to be, check out our Daily Dad Five Year Reflection Journal | https://dailydad.com/leather👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join 
You’re Breaking Down Barriers
Your priorities are clear. You have other important demands on your time. You have stuff you’ve gotta work around. 👉 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, Fa
Don’t Let This Hold Them Back From Learning
Your job is to show your kids the world. Your job is to teach 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, YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://ar
Why Parenting Feels So Overwhelming Right Now | David Pakman
Why does parenting feel so overwhelming right now? In this episode, Ryan and David Pakman, host of The David Pakman Show, discuss how constant advice, endless scrolling, and information overload are making it harder to think clearly and stay patient as a parent. Watch David Pakman's show on YouTube @TheDavidPakmanShowFollow David Pakman on Instagram @David.PakmanGrab a
Don’t Be One of These Parents
Don’t judge. Listen. Get on their level and take a moment to get into it 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, Instagram, Facebook, YouTubeSee Privacy
Instead of Worrying, Try This
Our kids are kids. That means they don’t always think things through.👉 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, YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.
You Can Still Do This
You know you could have handled it better. You know you wish you’d approached things differently. You know you miss them or wish things were better.👉 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,&
Show Them How to See
Slow down. Teach them to look—and then teach them to look again.👉 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, YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/p
You Need to Back Them Up
We want to encourage our kids to question. We want them to stand on principle. We want them to believe in themselves.👉 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, Face
First Camping Trip With Kids (What Could Go Wrong?)
What actually makes a trip “successful” with kids? In today’s episode, Ryan shares the ups and downs of his kids’ first camping trip and the simple moment that reminded him what actually matters.📚 Books Mentioned: Outdoor Kids in an Inside WorldCatch a Crayfish, Count the Stars: Fun Projects, Skills, and Adventures for Outdoor Kids👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools,
Fretting Is Not a Service
Fretting is not a substitute for true connection. It’s not a substitute for real conversation.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, YouTubeSee Privacy P
Are You Seeing the Beauty In It?
Just like everyone can view the cup as half-full or half-empty, we have significant power over the lens we bring to each parenting situation, crisis, and potential frustration.Reading Marcus Aurelius can change your life, but only if you know how to read his work 👉 Head here now to grab your Meditations book and guide bundle | https://store.dailystoic.com/pages/meditations-month-2026Give
They Could Need You, That’s Why
You’re traveling. You’re far away. The kids are in good hands. This is your little break. But do you still need to be on top of 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,&n
The Decades Disappear Like Sinking Ships
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