Podcasts by The Daily Dad
The audio companion to DailyDad.com’s daily email meditations on fatherhood, read by Ryan Holiday. Each daily reading will help you find the wisdom, inner strength, and good humor you need in order to be a great dad. Learn from historical figures and contemporary fathers how to do your most important job. Find more at dailydad.com.
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This Must Be The Top Priority from 2022-03-04T03:00
Ryan talks about why your kids should be number one.
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Hang This Up On Your Wall from 2022-03-03T03:00
Ryan talks about lessons that we can take from Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Please Encourage Them To Do This from 2022-03-02T03:00
Ryan talks about the power of journaling and why you should pass it on to your kids.
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It’s Painful But It’s Made You Invincible from 2022-03-01T03:00
Ryan talks about why parenting changes your relationship with time.
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Be Careful or You’ll Miss It from 2022-02-28T03:00
Ryan talks about why parenting changes your relationship with time.
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Dailly Dad on Viewing Time With Your Kids as a Gift from 2022-02-26T03:00
On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks about how to view setbacks or delays as an excuse to spend more time your kids, why there’s very few things in life that are as important as spendin...
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Don’t Deprive Them Of This from 2022-02-25T10:00
Ryan talks about why you should let your kids cultivate some time with themselves.
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We’re All In The Same Boat Now from 2022-02-24T03:00
Ryan talks about the great equalizer that is parenting.
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<h5 class="card-title"><a href="/podcast/the-daily-dad/are-you-using-this-power/">Are You Using This Power?</a><small> from 2022-02-23T03:00</small></h5>
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There Needs To Be Another Outlet from 2022-02-22T02:00
Ryan talks about the benefits of releasing pent up emotion.
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Two Maxims For Your Kids from 2022-02-21T10:00
Ryan talks about how the most important things you should teach your children.
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Daily Dad and Author Matthew Crawford on Leading Your Kids By Example from 2022-02-19T03:00
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<h5 class="card-title"><a href="/podcast/the-daily-dad/these-are-the-richest-kids/">These Are The Richest Kids</a><small> from 2022-02-16T04:00</small></h5>
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<h5 class="card-title"><a href="/podcast/the-daily-dad/what-do-you-wish-you-would-have-known/">What Do You Wish You Would Have Known?</a><small> from 2022-02-15T08:27:42</small></h5>
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<h5 class="card-title"><a href="/podcast/the-daily-dad/cherish-the-garbage-time/">Cherish The Garbage Time</a><small> from 2022-02-14T04:00</small></h5>
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Don’t Hurry Them Along from 2022-02-10T04:00
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The Main Thing We Have To Teach Them from 2022-02-08T04:00
Ryan talks about the most important thing that you can show your kids.
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What Is More Important from 2022-02-07T04:00
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<h5 class="card-title"><a href="/podcast/the-daily-dad/just-a-few-seconds-of-embarrassing-bravery/">Just A Few Seconds of Embarrassing Bravery</a><small> from 2022-02-03T04:00</small></h5>
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They Don’t Know What They Want from 2022-02-02T04:00
Ryan talks about how to set the right precedent for your kids.
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Now Is The Time To Use It from 2022-02-01T04:00
Ryan talks about how to get through the tough moments.
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They Need To Experience This from 2022-01-31T04:00
Ryan talks about the importance of letting your children experience failure.
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Let Them Have A Seat At The Table from 2022-01-27T04:00
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No One Can Take That You Had Them from 2022-01-26T04:00
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You Have To Have Their Back from 2022-01-25T04:00
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Every Moment Is The Same from 2022-01-24T03:30
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Daily Dad’s Top 10 Parenting Reminders from 2022-01-22T04:00
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You Can Only Pick Two from 2022-01-21T04:00
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They Know When You’re Not Paying Attention from 2022-01-20T04:00
Ryan discusses the intuitive power of your children, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.
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They’re Always Right, You Know from 2022-01-19T04:00
Ryan explains why you must always listen to your children very closely, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.
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<h5 class="card-title"><a href="/podcast/the-daily-dad/this-is-how-you-make-them-smart/">This Is How You Make Them Smart</a><small> from 2022-01-17T04:00</small></h5>
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Daily Dad on the Gap Between Taste and Ability from 2022-01-15T04:00
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They Could Be Your Last Words from 2022-01-14T04:00
Ryan talks about the recent passing of a great stand-up comedian and the lesson you can take from it as a parent, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.
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<h5 class="card-title"><a href="/podcast/the-daily-dad/provide-them-with-this-unusual-advantage/">Provide Them With This Unusual Advantage</a><small> from 2022-01-13T04:00</small></h5>
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Be Like This from 2022-01-10T04:00
Ryan discusses why you must give your children the love and support that they need, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.
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<h5 class="card-title"><a href="/podcast/the-daily-dad/daily-dads-tips-for-a-better-you-in-2022/">Daily Dad’s Tips for a Better You In 2022</a><small> from 2022-01-08T05:00</small></h5>
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<h5 class="card-title"><a href="/podcast/the-daily-dad/how-to-teach-your-kids-to-be-brave/">How To Teach Your Kids To Be Brave</a><small> from 2022-01-07T05:00</small></h5>
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You Have To Do Better from 2022-01-06T05:00
Ryan explains why you must do better than your parents did, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.
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<h5 class="card-title"><a href="/podcast/the-daily-dad/are-you-bringing-this-home/">Are You Bringing This Home?</a><small> from 2022-01-05T05:00</small></h5>
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What Would Come Out At Trial? from 2022-01-04T05:00
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Don’t Be Like This from 2022-01-03T05:00
Ryan explains the difference between letting your kids grow and being a bad parent, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.
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<h5 class="card-title"><a href="/podcast/the-daily-dad/daily-dad-on-the-common-good-and-protecting-your-family/">Daily Dad on the Common Good and Protecting Your Family</a><small> from 2022-01-01T04:00</small></h5>
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<h5 class="card-title"><a href="/podcast/the-daily-dad/all-you-control-is-how-you-play/">All You Control is How You Play</a><small> from 2021-12-31T04:00</small></h5>
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It’s Not Possible Without Struggle from 2021-12-29T04:00
Ryan talks about the importance of being open about the trials of parenting, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.
? We hope you join us in from 2021-12-25T04:00
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This is the Greatest Gift from 2021-12-24T04:00
Ryan discusses how important it is to be highly involved in your kids lives, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.
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Daily Dad on Robert Greene, Mentorship, and Being a Role Model from 2021-12-18T04:00
On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks about his relationship and recent visit with his mentor Robert Greene, the truth and importance of the saying “it takes a village,” why if you want ...
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Do You Really Care? from 2021-12-17T04:00
Ryan discusses how to reassess what you actually care about, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.
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Don’t Wish. Be from 2021-12-16T04:00
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Everybody is Going Through Something from 2021-12-15T04:00
Ryan discusses how to think about other peoples struggles, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.
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Where Did This Come From? from 2021-12-14T04:00
Ryan explains why you should think about the rules that you follow and where they come from, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.
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Who Else Would You Rather Do It With? from 2021-12-13T04:00
Ryan discusses why you must always make time for your kids, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.
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Daily Dad on Drawing Healthy Boundaries With Your Family from 2021-12-11T04:00
On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks to his friend and writing partner Nils Parker about how to approach the actual process of setting boundaries with your family, how the way your pare...
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Love is Not a Victory March from 2021-12-10T04:00
Ryan explains the harsh reality of becoming a parent, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.
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You’ll Wish This Too from 2021-12-09T04:00
Ryan explains why the little things that you get frustrated about don’t really matter, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.
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They Come Back Around from 2021-12-07T04:00
Ryan talks about why you need to be the constant that your kids can depend on, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.
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Daily Dad on the Importance of Cultivating a Competitive Spirit from 2021-12-04T04:00
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Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing from 2021-12-03T04:00
Ryan talks about how what matters over everything else, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.
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Are You Teaching Them Values? from 2021-12-02T04:00
Ryan discusses how much louder actions speak than words, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.
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Somebody Just Made This Stuff Up from 2021-11-30T04:00
Ryan explains why it’s important to challenge the status quo, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.
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You Make Debts Your Children Have To Pay from 2021-11-29T04:00
Ryan discusses how your choices will impact future generations, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.
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Daily Dad on Sleep Training Your Kids (and Yourself) from 2021-11-27T04:00
On today’s episode of the podcast Ryan talks to his friend and writing partner Nils Parker about the important role that sleep plays in successful parenting, how to get the right amount of sleep...
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You’re The Voice In Their Heads from 2021-11-26T04:00
Ryan discusses how a parent’s words and actions affect their children, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.
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Here’s What They Need from 2021-11-24T04:00
Ryan explains how you can simplify your children’s needs, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.
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<h5 class="card-title"><a href="/podcast/the-daily-dad/remember-what-success-looks-like/">Remember What Success Looks Like</a><small> from 2021-11-23T04:00</small></h5>
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Give Them This...While You Can from 2021-11-17T04:00
Ryan talks about why you should show your kids how much they mean to you, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.
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Nobody Likes a Spoiled Child from 2021-11-16T04:00
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Nick Palmisciano on Practicing Jui Jitsu and Raising Resilient Kids from 2021-11-13T04:00
On today’s episode, Ryan talks to Nick Palmisciano about the lessons that training in Jiu Jitsu can teach young kids, the benefits of training as a family, Nick’s journey as an entrepreneur, and...
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Why Didn’t You Make Time For Me? from 2021-11-12T04:00
Ryan discusses how time isn’t found, it is made, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.
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Do You Know Them? And They You? from 2021-10-18T03:30
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This Is Wonderful from 2021-08-23T04:26:41
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Daily Dad on Maintaining Positive Habits and Routines from 2021-08-21T04:00
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Count These Small Mercies from 2021-08-12T04:00
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Daily Dad on Sending Kids Back to School This Year from 2021-08-07T04:00
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You Have To See It This Way from 2021-07-30T04:00
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This Is The Most Impressive Form Of Greatness from 2021-07-29T04:00
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This Is What They Really Want from 2021-07-26T04:00
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Daily Dad on How Hard It Is to Be a Kid from 2021-07-24T04:00
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What Messages Are You Sending To The Future? from 2021-07-23T03:00
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You Have To Say Yes from 2021-07-16T03:00
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You Cannot Let This Happen from 2021-07-15T03:00
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You Don't Have To Do Anything But This from 2021-07-14T09:00
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Why You Must Bring This Home from 2021-07-05T03:00
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Daily Dad on Getting Rid of Your Stuff from 2021-07-03T03:00
On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks about why it’s important to go back through the old and useless stuff, how it helps clean out not only your house but your mind, how it affects kids...
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There Must Be Hope from 2021-07-02T03:00
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Would It Change Anything? from 2021-07-01T03:00
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This is Another Secret from 2021-06-30T03:00
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Prepare, Because It's Inevitable from 2021-06-29T03:00
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You Can't Be Remote from 2021-06-28T03:00
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Daily Dad on the 9/10 Ratio of Positivity and Discipline from 2021-06-26T03:00
On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks about creating a positive ratio of being a fun loving parent while still maintaining a disciplined outlook, why you will only have a crowded table a...
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This Is Why You're Here from 2021-06-25T03:00
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How To Deter Them from 2021-06-24T03:00
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This Was a Wake Up Call from 2021-06-23T03:00
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Don't Let Them Sneer from 2021-06-22T03:00
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They Owe You Nothing from 2021-06-21T03:00
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Daily Dad’s 6 Father’s Day Lessons from 2021-06-20T03:00
On today’s special Father’s Day episode, Ryan talks about 6 lessons that have helped him on his journey as a parent. The lessons are: 1. Tame your temper 2. Hunger and schedule is essential 3. ...
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Daily Dad on Lessons Learned Traveling With Young Kids from 2021-06-19T03:00
On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks about the RV trip that he and his family took out to West Texas, and the lessons that he took from the experience.
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This Is The Secret from 2021-06-11T03:00
“When you look at successful people with kids—be they CEOs or athletes or artists—it can be easy to marvel: How do they do it? How do they get it all done? How do they get it all done and still ...
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What Are You Even Fighting About? from 2021-06-10T03:00
“There is no family immune to conflict. Whether it’s about shoes left out or tattoos or politics, families fight. Siblings argue. Parents punish rule breaking...kids rebel. Spouses disagree, fai...
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You Must Adjust Accordingly from 2021-06-09T03:00
“It doesn’t matter how old you are, you grew up in a society and a culture that was less inclusive and less diverse than the one we’re in now. Certainly one that was less sensitive too.”
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This is What You Wanted from 2021-06-08T03:00
“Any parent who has had young kids takes a minute to remind younger parents with babies of this. Yes, you want them to start crawling, but as soon as they do, you’ll miss being able to set them ...
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It's Ok For Your Kid To Be Affected from 2021-06-07T03:00
“There is perhaps no remark responsible for more banal evil than this one: I don’t want my kid to be negatively affected. This is what parents say—and have said for generations—in objection to j...
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Charlie Mackesy on the Importance and the Power of Kindness from 2021-06-05T03:00
On today’s episode, Ryan talks to author Charlie Mackesy about his #1 New York Times bestselling book The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse<...
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Who Should Make Who Proud? from 2021-06-04T03:00
“We say it casually. We mean well. “Make me proud out there, kiddo,” we say as they trot out onto the soccer field. “Make your parents proud,” we say as they head off to college. And when they d...
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Don't Miss The Reminders from 2021-06-03T03:00
“Every time you pick them up to trim their nails. Every time you take them to get their haircut. Every time you have to take a load of clothes to Goodwill or to a friend’s house. Every time you ...
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Is It Really As Bad As You Say? from 2021-06-02T03:00
“There is a type of parent who is constantly worried about their kids. They’re worried that the teacher isn’t giving their daughter enough attention. They’re worried that their son is falling be...
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Where Do They Learn To Judge? from 2021-06-01T03:00
“You didn’t mean anything by it. It was a comment under your breath about your brother’s spending habits. It was a joke about a celebrity’s weight. It was a complaint about the way your neighbor...
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This Makes It Harder from 2021-05-31T03:00
“You got frustrated. Because they were being annoying. Because you already told them. Because they know they’re not supposed to hurt their brother like that.”
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Jessica Lahey on Self-Efficacy and Genetic Predisposition to Addiction from 2021-05-29T03:00
Ryan talks to Jessica Lahey about her new book The Addiction Inoculation: Raising Healthy Kids in a Culture of Dependence, protecting your kids against addicti...
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Always Think About Why from 2021-05-28T03:00
“It’s not easy to do when they’re hitting or biting or waking up ten times a night. When they’re failing classes they’re more than capable of passing. When they get caught sneaking out. When the...
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What We Do Ripples Through from 2021-05-27T03:00
“In the beautiful children’s book, Each Kindness, Jacqueline Woodson tells the story of a young girl named Chloe who, in the casual way that kids often do, treats a classmate cruelly. She is mov...
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They Can't Understand from 2021-05-26T03:00
“Look, there’s just no way your kids can understand. It’s impossible for a person that young, that free of responsibilities, to comprehend what it feels like to be a parent—to have your heart ru...
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You Need To Take This Time from 2021-05-25T03:00
“Certainly, someone would have needed him for something. His wife, one of his thirteen kids, a courtier, the pressing business of state. But for a few minutes to an hour—sometimes in the morning...
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Don't Despair, Just Wait from 2021-05-24T03:00
“Your kids can drive you nuts. They’re crazy. They’re struggling. They can be ungrateful. They can test and frustrate you like nothing else. But before you complain or despair...”
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Daily Dad and Nils Parker on Breaking the Cycle of Dysfunction from 2021-05-22T03:00
On today’s episode Ryan talks to his friend and writing partner Nils Parker about why setting expectations is crucial for kids fulfilling their potential, how to deal with the problems that your...
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What if You Treated Everyone This Way? from 2021-05-21T03:00
“You know that your kids are monsters when they’re tired. You know they don’t make good decisions when they’re hungry. You know that they have emotions and urges and drives operating inside them...
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Every Kid Needs This From At Least One Person from 2021-05-20T03:00
“All kids have had a hard time this last year. Of course, for many less privileged children the last twelve months were just an introduction to the daily struggle their parents have experienced ...
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Don't Start This For Them from 2021-05-19T03:00
“Maybe you do it because you’re in a hurry. Maybe you do it because you hate to see them struggle. Maybe it’s just a sweet gesture. Maybe you remember your parents doing it for you. Whatever the...
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Let Them Be Who They Are from 2021-05-18T03:00
“We should always try to learn from parents who have had it harder than us, who have really been through the ringer. If you haven’t watched Brandon Boulware’s deeply moving testimony about his s...
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Don't Let Them Do More Damage from 2021-05-17T03:00
“That idiot at work. That jerk of a neighbor. That contractor who has repeatedly lied and misled you. These are realities of life, of course, but as a parent, they are also an extra layer of cra...
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Daily Dad and Nils Parker on Being Present With Your Kids from 2021-05-15T03:00
On today’s episode Ryan talks to his friend and writing partner Nils Parker about Ryan’s recent parenting struggles, the urgency of giving your kids your undivided attention, the delicate balanc...
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Your Kids Have Not Been Harmed from 2021-05-14T03:00
“The last year has been rough. It’s not how any of us would have chosen for things to go. Remote schooling. Missed birthday parties. Cancelled trips. No unnecessary trips to the store, no concer...
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Make Sure They Always Have This from 2021-05-13T03:00
“It’s the most heartbreaking scene in an already heartbreaking book. It’s the scene at the end of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. The father is dying. He knows it. He is trying to say goodbye to his...
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They Are Your Work from 2021-05-12T03:00
“Bryan Caplan is a busy economist. He’s also a busy parent of four kids, all of whom he now homeschools. Might having that many kids and that much education to supervise impede on his career? Pr...
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They Must Be Surrounded By This from 2021-05-11T03:00
“Do you know Lewin’s Equation? You’re experiencing its implications as you read this:
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It's Game Time from 2021-05-10T03:00
“Everybody wants to get better. Next time, we tell ourselves, we’ll get it right. We’ll try harder. We’ll have less going on at work and therefore more time to focus. Tomorrow will be a fresh st...
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Daily Dad and Nils Parker on the Importance of Independent Decision Making from 2021-05-08T03:00
On today’s podcast Ryan talks to his friend and writing partner Nils Parker about Ryan’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, the difficulty of weighing decisions independently, how to guide your ch...
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It's Not About You from 2021-05-07T03:00
“We all enter fatherhood with preconceived notions and expectations. We hear about that magically profound connection that forms the moment they are born. We’re told nothing will make us feel mo...
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Let Them Drum from 2021-05-06T03:00
“In Margarita Engels’s beautiful poem Drum Dream Girl (a must read for every parent), a little girl wants to be a drummer. But time and time again she is deterred. By archaic gender roles. By he...
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If you Want Them To Listen from 2021-05-05T03:00
“You want them to listen. You want them to respect you, as we’ve talked about. What’s the secret?”
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They Shrug It Off. So Can You from 2021-05-04T03:00
“Your kid falls. If you’re not paying attention, they brush themselves off and keep going. But if they see the look on your face? They burst into tears. A lot of parenting is like this. Your kid...
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Do Your Actions Match Your Values from 2021-05-03T03:00
“We tell ourselves we’re good people. We support good causes. We vote for the right candidates. We are disgusted when we hear people say bigoted or cruel things.”
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Daily Dad and Nils Parker on Doing the Right Thing During the Pandemic from 2021-05-01T03:00
On today’s podcast Ryan talks to his friend and writing partner Nils Parker about Ryan’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, why it’s important to always try to do the right thing for your kids and...
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This Is The Enemy from 2021-04-30T03:00
“You’re distracted because this weird work email just came in. You’re in a bad mood because of something you saw. And what happens? Well, your kids get the brunt of it. Or they get only 50% of D...
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This Explains Everything from 2021-04-29T03:00
“How old were you when you first heard of the concept of being “hangry?” Maybe it was a friend that joked about it, or someone you were dating. Maybe you’re just hearing about this portmanteau o...
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This Is A Tough Balance from 2021-04-28T03:00
“We’ve talked about being a fan of your kids. We’ve talked about believing in them. We’ve talked about encouraging and supporting them. We talk about these things because they’re important.”
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Your Family Was Given A Gift from 2021-04-27T03:00
“There have been incalculable losses over the last year. The death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic is staggering. The economic devastation is generational. And that is to say nothing of the miss...
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Don't Just Assume It Will Work Out from 2021-04-26T03:00
“In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius takes a moment to remind himself of the “malice, cunning and hypocrisy that power produces,” and the “peculiar ruthlessness often shown by people from ‘good fami...
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Daily Dad and Nils Parker on Resiliency and Fragility from 2021-04-24T03:00
On today’s podcast Ryan talks to his friend and writing partner Nils Parker about the contradicting ideas of resiliency and fragility and the role that they’ve played in children’s lives during ...
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Don't Forget How Small They Are from 2021-04-23T03:00
“There’s a wrenching scene in the haunting novel The Sweet Hereafter (not to be read for the faint of heart). A widowed husband is folding up the clothes of his late wife. He’s struck, holding h...
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What Are You Making Them Do? from 2021-04-22T03:00
“There’s a line adapted from Aristotle but given to us by the historian Will Durant: We are what we repeatedly do. Therefore, excellence is not an act but a habit. The real question as parents t...
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This Could Be The Moment from 2021-04-21T03:00
“You’re busy. It’s just a trip to the store. They have been a pain all day. You’re trying to get ready to give them a special surprise. ”
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What Game Are You Teaching Them? from 2021-04-20T03:00
“There are two types of games in this life: Finite and Infinite games. Finite games are things you do once and then they’re over. Infinite games are more like life itself—it goes on and on and e...
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You Can't Expect Them To Have The Same Taste...Yet from 2021-04-19T03:00
“We’ve talked before about enjoying the classics with your kids. Not necessarily ‘the classics’ in the ancient Greek literature sense, but classic rock, classic films. You know, the all time gre...
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Daily Dad on Advice for Expecting Parents from 2021-04-17T03:00
On today’s podcast Ryan talks to his friend and writing partner Nils Parker about advice that they wish they would've been given before they had kids.
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Give What You Didn't Get from 2021-04-16T03:00
“Marqise Lee didn’t play football in 2020. He could have played for Bill Belichick but he didn’t. Not because he was worn down or afraid of the grind—as an athlete and a football player, he’s in...
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This Is The One Thing You Cannot Do from 2021-04-15T03:00
“We can mess up a lot as parents—in fact, we will mess up a lot. We will work too much. We will have issues from our own childhood bubble to the surface. We’ll lose our tempers. We can push too ...
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To Whom Much Is Given... from 2021-04-14T03:00
“Your kids want to know why their friends don’t have to do chores. They want to know why you aren’t happy with middling grades. They want to know why you’re taking the trouble they got in so ser...
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Don't Think About It This Way from 2021-04-13T03:00
“Every TV show perpetuates the stereotype. Our own memories confirm it. At some point, parents have to have “The Talk.” About drugs. About sex. About race. About divorce.”
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This Solves Most Problems from 2021-04-12T03:00
“We’ve said before that taking a walk will solve most of your parenting problems. Getting the kids outside, rocking them with the ambulatory sway of our species, stimulating them with some sunli...
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Daily Dad on How to Raise a Resilient Child from 2021-04-10T03:00
“Every parent wants a resilient child. Nobody feels good sending a fragile or vulnerable kid in the world. We know that resilience isn’t just a tool to weather the inescapable hardships in life,...
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It's Your Job To Check In from 2021-04-09T03:00
“Nobody steals a scene on Seinfeld quite like George’s parents, Frank and Estelle Costanza. And of course, nobody makes George more miserable than them. They are a crazy, absurd set of parents.”...
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Have You Seen Their Perspective? from 2021-04-08T03:00
“We think they’re making excuses. We think they’re making stuff up. We just want them to go back and sleep in their bed. Or listen to their coach. Or get their work done. It’s fine, we tell them...
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You’ll Always Have This from 2021-04-07T03:00
“The last twelve months have been rough. They were defined by lockdowns and job losses and masks and wildfires and protests. But what about someone with a one-year-old? To them, the last twelve ...
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If You Want Your Kids To Respect You from 2021-04-06T03:00
“Every parent wants to be respected. They want to be listened to. They want their advice to be taken seriously. They want to be looked up to. And how do far too many of us try to get these thing...
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They Don’t Know Your Battles from 2021-04-05T03:00
“The story of Major Taylor is an inspiring one...and a tragic one. Major Taylor was the greatest cyclist of his generation, perhaps one of the great athletes to ever live. The only problem was t...
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Daily Dad and Ron Lieber on Preparing Your Kids For Financial Success from 2021-04-03T03:00
Ryan speaks to author Ron Lieber about the key Stoic virtue of temperance, how money can be a great tool for teaching, how parents and kids should approach college and gap years, and more.
Teach Them To Think and Evaluate from 2021-04-02T03:00
“Plutarch tells us the story of a Spartan leader: "As he reclined after his meal the Eiren would tell one boy to sing, while to another he would pose a question which called for a considere...
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They Get It Better Than You from 2021-04-01T03:00
“We told the story recently of the wakeup call that Rich Cohen got from his son’s hockey coach. Complaining about playing time, the coach asked if Rich’s son was happy, and when Rich said he was...
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It’s Usually Not an Accident from 2021-03-31T03:00
“Florence Nightingale was an incredible woman. She revolutionized nursing. She saved thousands and thousands of lives. This came as a surprise in Victorian England because women weren’t supposed...
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It’s a Family Affair from 2021-03-30T03:00
“Taylor Branch’s incredible series on Martin Luther King Jr and the Civil Rights Movement spans three volumes. It’s almost 3000 pages with hundreds of footnotes. It won awards like the Pulitzer ...
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Be Careful of Your Implications from 2021-03-29T03:00
“In an early episode of The Crown, Princess Margaret and her sister Queen Elizabeth wax nostalgic about their loving, late father, who used to refer to his daughters as his “pride and j...
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Daily Dad and Volleyball Legend Gabrielle Reece on How Family Gives Us Meaning from 2021-03-27T03:00
Ryan speaks to Gabrielle Reece about how family gives us meaning, the stillness that is required to accurately observe ourselves, how to properly maintain healthy relationships and find enough f...
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Do You Do This Over Dinner? from 2021-03-26T03:00
“Some families watch TV at dinner. Some families eat separately. Some families talk idly about their day. Dinner at Agnes Callard’s house is different. She and her children debate.”
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They Don’t Understand Time (Do You?) from 2021-03-25T03:00
“Think about where you were fifteen years ago. Twenty. Just how long ago that was. Now think about your thoughts from fifteen years ago. Maybe that takes you back too far, but even that is illus...
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Be Something and Somebody from 2021-03-24T03:00
“E.H Harriman was a hell of a businessman and, as we’ve talked about before, a surprisingly good father. He had a reputation as a rapacious industrialist, but at home he was tender and engaged w...
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Lay Down These Rules from 2021-03-23T03:00
“Every family is going to have their own rules. Some parents want a “Yes, sir” and Yes, Ma’am,” others are OK being called by their first name. Some tolerate elbows on the table, others won’t ev...
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Are You Telling Them This? from 2021-03-22T03:00
“As a young novelist, Susan Straight was told by her mentor, the great James Baldwin, “You must continue to write. It is imperative.” Imagine how different that was than the example she got from...
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How to Teach Your Kids About Ancient Philosophy from 2021-03-20T03:00
On today’s podcast, Ryan Holiday discusses some tips for teaching your kids about ancient philosophy and Stoicism. We want to pass on our knowledge to our children, but it isn't always easy...
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We Can Choose Our Parents from 2021-03-19T03:00
“We were given two parents. Or maybe one. Or maybe more. All of our upbringings were different, and outside of our control. We didn’t get to decide who our mom was or who our dad was, if they go...
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Classics Are The Key from 2021-03-18T03:00
“You like stuff. your kids like different stuff. It’s a conflict as old as parenthood itself. Music, food, art--the generational divide is real. Does this mean we can’t even connect? No, of cour...
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Here’s What Matters from 2021-03-17T03:00
“Rich Cohen loves hockey. He loves watching his kids excel at it. Like any parent, the last thing he wants to see is for them to struggle, or worse, to not get their fair share--whether it’s pla...
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Your Job Is To Bother from 2021-03-16T03:00
“They’d rather you not check in so much. They’d rather you not tell them how you feel about them so much. They’d rather you not hug them in front of their friends. And? It’s not a coincidence th...
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The Kinds of Stories To Tell Them from 2021-03-15T00:00
“It was a dark time. The world was falling apart. School was a distant memory. All they had was time. Is this your life? Or is it the plot of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road?”
Ryan exp...
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Daily Dad and Illustrator Victor Juhasz on Marcus Aurelius and The Boy Who Would Be King from 2021-03-13T03:00
On today’s podcast, Ryan speaks to his collaborator and illustrator for his new book The Boy Who Would Be King about the process of creating the art for the book, imposing discipline on...
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Transcend this Bitter Math from 2021-03-12T03:00
“We know our parents sacrificed for us. That’s what history is...people giving stuff up for future generations, whether it’s crossing lonely oceans or fighting in wars or, as it was in the old d...
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They’re Only Going To Ask You So Many Times from 2021-03-11T03:00
“They’re only going to ask you so many times: to get in the pool with them, to sit next to them, to help with their homework, to talk about the problem they’re having. No, not because you only g...
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What’s More Important? from 2021-03-10T03:00
“Yeah, it costs money to heat a house warmer than it needs to be. Yeah, rooms should be clean. Yeah, it’s annoying when shoes are left in a pile. Yeah, you told them to knock that off already. B...
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You Can Educate and Entertain from 2021-03-09T03:00
“You want to put them to sleep, so you read them the first book off the shelf. You’re on the couch with your daughter, so you watch whatever movie is on TV. You want the kids to relax in the car...
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You Must Raise and Educate Them the Same from 2021-03-08T03:00
“Are there differences between boys and girls? Of course. Anyone that tells you differently either isn’t a parent or they have some agenda that’s blinding them. There are sex differences in ever...
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Allie Esiri On the Power of Poetry and Daily Reads from 2021-03-06T03:00
On today’s podcast, Ryan speaks to writer Allie Esiri about the Stoic’s infatuation with ancient poetry, how to read and find insight in poetry, how the greatest writing communicates to us on a ...
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This Is All an Invention from 2021-03-05T03:00
“This didn’t used to exist you know. Kids had it way harder before. Not just a hundred-plus years ago when they were valued most for their labor on the farm, but back further still—kids got marr...
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There Are More Important Things to Worry About from 2021-03-04T03:00
“In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates tells the story of the god Theuth approaching the King of Egypt, hardly able to contain his exci...
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What Kind of Voice Are You Giving Them? from 2021-03-03T03:00
“You hear it all the time. The voice in your head. You’ve heard it all your life. The one that tells you what’s right. The one that tells you what it thinks you ought to do. It can also turn nas...
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They Don't Care from 2021-03-02T03:00
“Of course, your kids love you. They look up to you. They imitate you. They want to be around you. At the same time, it seems like they could not be less impressed or less interested in us.”
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This Is Why We Read from 2021-03-01T03:00
“You’ve read plenty of bad books as a parent. The ham-handed kids books. The nonsensical ones. The vanity projects. The patronizing ones. Why are you reading to your kids? To teach them to read,...
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Daily Dad’s Best Advice From Authors from 2021-02-27T03:00
Today’s episode features a compilation of some of the best advice that we’ve found from great authors. Ryan revisits stories from Cormac McCarthy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, and James ...
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They Got Your Number from 2021-02-26T03:00
“You used to think you had it so together. And maybe you still do. At work, you’re important and together. In relationships, you’re measured and firm. You’re an adult. You’re in charge right Nah...
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It's Not Fair to Expect This from 2021-02-25T03:00
“If you’ve ever watched Netflix’s The Crown, you’ve seen this lesson play out: Queen Elizabeth is strong. She’s stoic. She’s restrained. She’s got a profound sense of duty. And she is c...
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If You Want Them to Do Right from 2021-02-24T03:00
“You think they’re not watching, but of course they are. What else do they have going on? You’re the most entertaining and strange show in their lives. They watch what you eat...and how you eat....
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You Must Amend Your Life from 2021-02-23T03:00
“Nobody wants to think about this. We love our kids too much. We love our lives too much. We have too much to do. But we have to stop. We have to stop and think about this unpleasant fact: We wi...
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What Are We Teaching Them? from 2021-02-22T03:00
“The fact that there are so many memes about this shows how widespread the problem is. ‘Another day without using the Pythagorean theorem,’ reads one. Another jokes about a kid wanting to learn ...
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Daily Dad’s Best Advice from Athletes and Coaches from 2021-02-20T03:00
Today’s episode features a compilation of some of the best advice that we’ve found from athletes and coaches. Ryan revisits stories about Kobe Bryant, Jack Harbaugh, Archie Manning, and Jim Valv...
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We Cannot Abdicate Our Responsibilities from 2021-02-19T03:00
“We’ve talked before about F. Scott Fitzgerald. He was a great writer who wrestled with many demons. He was spoiled by his parents. He inherited alcoholism. He struggled valiantly at the end of ...
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It’s About Learning, Not Memorization from 2021-02-18T03:00
“It’s time for us to review your multiplication tables, you tell them. Let’s look over your vocab flash cards. Or maybe you’re one of those parents that makes your kids recite poems or plays, th...
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There Are No Such Things As “Children’s Stories” from 2021-02-17T03:00
“Aesop’s Fables are silly stories about dogs and mice and foxes and lions. Children love them. But are they ‘for kids?’ No, they are for human beings. They are designed to teach lessons...
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The Harder Path Is Worth It from 2021-02-16T03:00
“Cynicism is easy. Being jaded is easy. Being tired—tired of other people, tired of life—is easy. Hope? Hope is hard. Earnestness is hard. Caring is hard. But that’s the whole thing: Nobody said...
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Their Faults Are Your Faults from 2021-02-15T03:00
“They don’t listen. They make bad choices. They don’t give their best efforts. Your kids can drive you nuts. After all, isn’t mimicry pretty aggravating?”
Ryan explains how your children a...
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Daily Dad and Agnes Callard on Teaching Children Philosophy from 2021-02-13T03:00
On today’s episode Ryan speaks to professor and author Agnes Callard about pulling children towards philosophy, how to popularize philosophy in your own household, and how to set the stakes high...
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You Are Only As Happy As Your Unhappiest Child from 2021-02-12T03:00
“In 2013, two of Jack Harbaugh’s kids were coaching against each other in the Super Bowl. They had led their respective teams to the NFL promised land, achieving success at the highest level of ...
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You Can Find the Time from 2021-02-11T03:00
“We think we’re too busy. We think it’s impossible. We’re parents now. There’s no way we can start that company. There’s no way we can finish that project. We have to be realistic. We’ve got to ...
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The Fire Is Real from 2021-02-10T03:00
“The last pages of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road are about the hardest thing any father will ever have to read. The man is dying. He knows it. He knows it means leaving his boy alone—alone in a ter...
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Leave Them Alone! from 2021-02-09T03:00
“As we’ve said before, people have been complaining of the next generation...since well, generations. It’s an old cliche: There’s something wrong with our kids and their friends. They’re missing...
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We’re Doing It Wrong from 2021-02-08T03:00
“When you think of your own school days, what do you think of? What do the days at school of your own children look like? Certainly, very different from what school was ever intended or imagined...
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Daily Dad and Jessica Lahey, Angel Parham, Brett McKay, and Dr. Harvey Karp on Parenting from 2021-02-06T03:00
Today’s episode features clips from some of the best interviews about parenting from The Daily Stoic Podcast. Ryan talks to Jessica Lahey, Angel Par...
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You Got What You’ll Want from 2021-02-05T03:00
“There’s been some iconic father-son moments in sports history. Tiger hugging his son Charlie Listen
Prepare Them Now. While You Can. from 2021-02-04T03:00
“Life is easy now. We should just let them enjoy it right? Before they have to work for a living. Before they have to care about what’s going on in the world. While they can do whatever they wan...
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Let’s Get To The Bottom Of It from 2021-02-03T03:00
“They have questions. You have answers. That’s how this works? Sure, if you want to be a human form of a Google Search.”
Ryan explains why you should let your kids figure things out on the...
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Give Them This Stuff from 2021-02-02T03:00
“The novelist John Steinbeck used to write his novels with pencils. In 1952, he was wearing himself out writing his greatest novel, East of Eden. He was also wearing down his pencils, o...
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The Right Thing Is Not So Simple Anymore from 2021-02-01T03:00
“When you were younger, you were brash. You didn’t take crap. You didn’t keep quiet. If you disagreed, or didn’t like something, you said something. We hated hypocrites. We shook our head at the...
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Daily Dad and Emily Oster on Rational Parenting from 2021-01-30T03:00
On today’s episode, Ryan has a wide-ranging conversation with professor and economist Emily Oster. They talk about how to balance your life with children, how to communicate positive messaging, ...
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Teach Them How To Devour Like This from 2021-01-29T03:00
“Some parents want their kids to know how to read. We want more than that. We want our kids to be obsessed. We want them to hunger for books. We want them to read like they’re on a mission.”
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Don’t Tie Down Your Eagle from 2021-01-28T03:00
“Florence Nightingale was a precocious child. As a toddler, she always went her own way. Then, unlike many girls her age at the time, she wasn’t interested in parties or getting married or fancy...
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Keep Your Head Up And Take Another Swing from 2021-01-27T03:00
“No person has a perfect track record. Certainly, no parent does. We all mess up. We all fall short. We get our priorities wrong. We make mistakes. We lose our temper and our patience. We all ha...
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Make Your Name Mean Something from 2021-01-26T03:00
“When Cato’s son Marcus fell at the second battle of Philippi in 42 BCE, his final act was to shout his father’s name. When Cato’s daughter Porcia wanted to prove her mettle to the conspirators ...
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Regular Kids Can Do Great Things from 2021-01-25T03:00
“It is obvious, in retrospect, why some of the towering figures of the 20th century were who they were. Stalin. Hitler. Mao. Even Churchill. They had formative, even horrible childhoods that pro...
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Daily Dad and Harvey Karp on How to Be a Great Parent from 2021-01-23T03:00
Ryan speaks with Dr. Harvey Karp, a parenting expert and inventor of the SNOO Sleep System, about how people prepare for parenthood, the benefits of seeking out parenting expertise, and more. Listen
It’s Not Over For You from 2021-01-22T03:00
“The writer Susan Straight was helping her mother move, when she found an old painting thrown in the trash can. Sensing that this wasn’t something that her mother had bought, she asked her about...
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Don’t Be Mad At Good People from 2021-01-21T03:00
“You’re a patient person. You don’t get road rage. You don’t snap at your employees. You accept apologies when offered. You treat strangers well. Because these are the rules of polite society. B...
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Just Be a Fan. Just Be a Fan. from 2021-01-20T03:00
“Maybe your kid is into weird stuff. Maybe their heavy metal band sucks--or their talents as a white MC are almost offensive. Maybe you can’t stand the shows they like, or maybe their dream is a...
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The Struggle With Struggle from 2021-01-19T03:00
“We all know that what we went through in life is what made us who we are. The breakups, the failures, the losses and the mistakes. Some of us grew up poor. Others grew up rich but with absent p...
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Everything Is Figureoutable, Pt. II from 2021-01-18T03:00
“When Charles Lindbergh was thinking about attempting the first transatlantic flight, he ran into an issue. It wasn’t that he had very little money. It wasn’t that he was a nobody. It wasn’t eve...
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Daily Dad On Bringing the Right Energy Into Your Home from 2021-01-16T03:00
On today's long episode of the Daily Dad Podcast, Ryan and Nils talk about how to create and maintain the right environment in your home—one where your kids are always happy to hear you com...
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You Have To Sell Them On This from 2021-01-15T03:00
“As you’ve gotten older, it’s been harder to deny: People can be awful. Institutions let you down. The world will break your heart. There is such thing as evil. There is too much of it out there...
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Don’t Overdo It! from 2021-01-14T03:00
“You love them. It feels good to get them things. It feels good to spoil them even. Especially if you’re someone who works a lot, who feels guilty about mistakes they’ve made, who carry wounds f...
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Apply Your Opinions At Home from 2021-01-13T03:00
“Like any reasonable adult, you’ve got opinions about the world. How the country should be run. What courage looks like in a politician. What a great coach does, what’s expected of an athlete in...
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They Don’t Need a Lecture. They Need This. from 2021-01-12T03:00
“Your kids screwed up. They failed a test. They forgot their homework. They hit their brother. They scratched your car and lied about it. They got caught drinking. They got caught cheating. Wors...
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Work With Them To Find Their Lane from 2021-01-11T03:00
“You want your kids to be successful. You want them to be ambitious. You want them to Cincinnatus Listen
It’s Always Been Like This from 2020-12-11T03:00
"There he walked, along the trail, carrying his young child pressed up against his side. Sometimes the kid would get a burst of energy and call to be put down. I want to walk. I want to wal...
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Think of Everything They Missed from 2020-12-10T03:00
"You read an old book and it’s pretty common: Dads didn’t used to be present for the birth of their children. Sometimes they weren’t even in town—they’d heard about it in a letter or a call...
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This Is Something to Invest In from 2020-12-09T03:00
"You work hard for your family. You know how you sweated for each dollar, which can make it hard to spend. Especially if you have an eye toward investing—every dollar expended now comes at ...
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Practice What You Preach from 2020-12-08T03:00
"If you haven’t read Emily Oster’s work, then your wife probably has. She’s a wonderful, brilliant economist (who also has a brilliant newsletter) whose work focuses on parenting and childr...
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Protect Them From This, Too from 2020-12-07T03:00
"Two thousand years ago, Plutarch, quoting a philosopher named Xenocrates, was talking about how concerned parents back then made sure their children wore ear protection when they wrestled,...
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This Is a Family Motto from 2020-12-04T03:00
"It was one of those nights. The boys would not go to sleep. They had that contagious energy that so often keeps brothers awake. The first time their father came in to tell them to...
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What You Teach Them Can Never Be Taken Away from 2020-12-03T03:00
"A lot can go wrong. You and your spouse could split up. You could get cancer and die before your kids grow up. They could join a cult. They could move far away. They could be the victim of...
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Better To Be Best At This, Than Anything Else from 2020-12-02T03:00
Cato the Elder was a great man. He was successful at agriculture. He was successful as a writer. He was a powerful politician. He towered over Roman life not just in his own time, but for genera...
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What Matters More Than Results from 2020-12-01T03:00
Tracee Ellis Ross has a famous, successful mother: the singer Diana Ross. You might think that someone that successful would care a lot about success. Indeed, it’s a pretty common pattern: Listen
Are You Inspiring Them With This? from 2020-11-30T03:00
"There’s a lot of darkness in the world. A pandemic. Corrupt and failed politicians. Institutions groaning under the weight of modern problems. Maybe your neighbors are a jerk, or your boss...
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You’re Your Parents Now from 2020-11-27T03:00
"It hits you randomly. You’re in the middle of packing your kids up for a drive to the beach. You’re laying on the couch because your back hurts. You’re telling your daughter to stop messin...
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What Are You Going to Focus On? from 2020-11-26T03:00
"You can look at all the negative in the world. You can focus on the dark clouds above. Or you can look for the silver lining, the bright spots.
We have that expression about whet...
It’s Good to Have Difficult People in Your Life from 2020-11-25T03:00
"Maybe your parents have issues.
Maybe you have trouble getting along with your siblings.
Maybe your spouse and you are very different.
Maybe you have all these things and mor...
Now Is the Time. Right Now. from 2020-11-24T03:00
"Your kids are always listening, that’s true. They’ll always look to see what you’re doing and learn from you. Nell Painter learning from her mother’s career change late in life is proof of...
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This Is Where to Put Your Effort from 2020-11-23T03:00
"You’re making good money. You’re saving. You’re investing. You’ve bought those personal finance books that tell you how to manage your finances. You’ve worked extra hard, taken risks, done...
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You've Been Graced from 2020-11-20T03:00
"Charles de Gaulle had a hard life. He was a POW in WWI. He had to flee France in order to save it in WWII. He endured protests and assassination attempts. He also had a daughter named Anne...
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Tell Them Before It’s Too Late from 2020-11-19T03:00
"An accident, a mistake—no matter the intention, no matter how sweet the child or living the parent—can irrevocably change a life. A kid playing with a gun. A father who leaves a pool gate ...
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It’s the Hardest Thing from 2020-11-18T03:00
"Chesty Puller saw some stuff. He fought in the Banana Wars. He fought in guerilla wars. He took islands in the Pacific during WWII. He fought in Korea.
So you might think that he...
This Is How to Act from 2020-11-17T03:00
"It’s confusing to be a parent these days. Confusing to be a father, too. Because roles are in a state of flux. Expectations are always increasing. And of course, the world is an enormous m...
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You Have To Unlock This from 2020-11-16T03:00
Clearly, Dean Acheson’s parents did a good job. They raised him to be diligent enough to get into the best schools. They provided for him. They made him curious. They made him feel loved and saf...
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You Don’t Stop Teaching Your Kids from 2020-11-13T03:00
"Nell Painter was an accomplished adult. She was more than out from under her parents thumb—she was in her seventies. She was a world-class historian. Yet even then, her mother was teaching...
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Yet Don’t Be Too Tough from 2020-11-12T03:00
"As we’ve talked about, you have to toughen your kids up. No one is well-served by parents who are soft, who let them be soft.
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Make Them Feel Like They’re “Enough” from 2020-11-11T03:00
"Obviously you want them to be successful. You want them to be excellent—at whatever they do in this life.
But it is essential, as you try to motivate and encourage and inspire th...
Not Just to Read, but to Read Critically from 2020-11-10T03:00
"An illiterate world is not a good one, but a world where people unthinkingly believe and accept everything they read is not that much better.
So it’s great that you’re teaching y...
They’re Listening. They Really Are. from 2020-11-09T03:00
"Like so many dads, Harbaugh kept repeating this ridiculous line because, who knows why, that’s just what dads do. Not once in the five hundred times he said it over the course of their chi...
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You Have to Come Up With Challenges from 2020-11-06T03:00
"Of course, you want tough kids. You want boys who are active and resilient. You want girls who are active and resilient. You want them to be healthy, you want them to be able to overcome o...
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Don’t Ever, Ever Do This from 2020-11-05T03:00
"Cato the Elder, we’re told by Plutarch, “used to say that a man who beats his wife or a child is laying sacrilegious hands on the most sacred thing in the world.”
Boom. It doesn’t...
Who Are You Doing This For? from 2020-11-04T03:00
"It’s almost incomprehensible.
The parents were rich. They were powerful. Their kids had access to the best tutors in the world. The best schools. They were already connected. They...
Only A Parent Understands from 2020-11-03T03:00
"The Spartan Agesilaus was the toughest of the tough. Like all Spartans, he had been trained in the agoge to be courageous and self-disciplined and beyond fear and pain. He was cap...
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They Learn From Home from 2020-11-02T03:00
"You tell them to be good. To be honest. To fol...
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What If You Didn’t Think You Knew? from 2020-10-30T03:00
"You’re a dad, so you know a lot. You’ve been alive a while. You’ve read a thing or two and heard a thing or two. So when your kids ask you questions—about history, about life, about why pe...
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They Don’t Need to Worry About Anything But This from 2020-10-29T03:00
"F Scott Fitzgerald wasn’t always the best father, but as one of the most brilliant writers and thinkers of his time, he certainly knew how to express fatherly advice perfectly in words. On...
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Let Them Hear It From You from 2020-10-28T03:00
"You can’t wait until you’re on your deathbed to let them know how you feel about them. You can’t wait until you’re dead and gone and they go through your stuff and find the news clippings ...
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There’s a Reason You’re So Raw from 2020-10-27T02:00
"While there are certainly people out there for whom the pandemic or our political environment have brought out their worst, the rest of us have started to feel something different. We’re r...
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Easier or Harder? Which Is It? from 2020-10-26T02:00
"What’s the through line to judge a good parent through the early days to the glory days through the golden years?
It’s simple: Do you make their life easier or harder? Better or ...
They Are Always Your Child from 2020-10-23T02:00
"We have to remember that while we’re on this journey. They’re going to get older. Someday, perhaps some day soon, they’ll stop being a little boy or a little girl. But they’ll never, not e...
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When Is Their Time? from 2020-10-22T02:00
"Of course, you’re busy. You have work. You have your spouse. You have your kids. You have all the obligations of adulthood. All these things are important. How do you fit it all in?
Teach Them to Notice from 2020-10-21T02:00
"When Robert Lovett, the future State Department official and Secretary of Defense, was a kid, it happened that both father and son took similar routes in the morning and evening—although a...
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If It Works, Do It Again from 2020-10-20T02:00
"We parents are like field goal kickers. Just like if a certain shirt or a pair of socks brings them luck, we’re always looking for something, anything that will give us an edge. Just like ...
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You Have to Be Proud from 2020-10-19T00:00
"Imagine you’re in the middle of the biggest moment of your career.
Suddenly, someone starts attacking and criticizing your son. They’re not completely wrong. Your son has made mi...
What Are You Leaving Them? from 2020-10-16T02:00
"Someone once remarked to the famed Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn, that his father hadn’t left him much when he had died. Rayburn was quick to correct this misconception. My father, he ...
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You Can’t Be a Hypocrite from 2020-10-15T00:00
"A few years ago, the Emmy-winning actor William H. Macy was asked for the best piece of advice he was ever given. 'Never lie,' he answered. 'It’s the cheapest way to go. Lie...
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Protect This Impulse from 2020-10-14T02:00
"We have to remember that our job as parents, as educators, is not to keep our kids in line. It’s not to crush their initiative because it’s disruptive or uncomfortable or difficult for us....
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Where Did You See That? from 2020-10-13T02:00
"Your daughter gets mad, so she slams the door and screams. Your son makes himself a snack and leaves the kitchen a disaster for someone else to clean up. You hear them say something rude t...
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Don’t Make Them Wait for It from 2020-10-12T00:00
"When you’re gone, when they go through your stuff or when they talk to your friends at your funeral, it will be undeniable clearly: God, your dad just loved you so much. You were all he ta...
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When You Get Them to Listen... from 2020-10-09T02:00
"We all say things to our kids, just as our parents did. Little bits and bobs of wisdom that we picked up places. We hope they hear us. We hope it gets through.
And when it does? ...
Here’s How to Have Lasting Impact from 2020-10-08T02:00
"There’s a lot going on in the world, a lot going wrong. There’s so much we’d like to change, so much we’d like to be better.
Where do we start? How about with our kids?"
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Why You Have to Be Good to Your Kids from 2020-10-07T02:00
"Sure, it’s important that you keep up with your friends. You wouldn’t want to be one of those people that just disappears once they have kids. You and your spouse should get out and see fo...
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There’s Always an Excuse from 2020-10-06T02:00
"There’s always an excuse for why you’re not being the parent you’d like to be, just as there’s always an excuse why you’re not being the person you know you’re supposed to be. Things are ...
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This Is the Highest Praise from 2020-10-05T02:00
"There is one way to judge, in the end, whether you’ve done this thing right. It’s not based on how rich your kids get. It’s not whether they make it into Yale, or whether they turn out han...
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We All Need to Hear This from 2020-10-02T02:00
Ryan further discusses the letters that author F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to his daughter, and what they say about him and his character as a parent, on today's Daily Dad Podcast.
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We Are All in This Together from 2020-10-01T02:00
"It’s easy to forget this. It’s easy to give into dissension and conflict and zero-sumness. Especially now. Especially when things are so dark. Isn’t that the natural state of things? Survi...
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You Don’t Have to Be So Serious from 2020-09-30T02:00
"It’s exhausting to be a kid. Because they’re clever and creative and you’re not. Because they’re pure and idealistic and you’ve been hardened by the world you’ve seen. Because they’re stil...
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Who Are You Studying for Their Sake? from 2020-09-29T02:00
"What kinds of books do dads like? Well, according to the displays at Barnes & Noble and Costco, it’s almost exclusively books about war and history. Have you ever wondered why that is?...
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Nourish This Wonderful Trait from 2020-09-28T01:00
"Sometimes, when parents fall down on the job, it falls to someone else to do the job. The primary and most important influence on Queen Victoria, for instance, was not her mother but her b...
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Teach Them to Believe in This from 2020-09-25T02:00
"In August 1933, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a letter to his young daughter Frances who was away at camp. It's a beautiful, personal letter from a man who was flawed—failed by his own pa...
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What Story Are You Telling Your Kids? from 2020-09-24T02:00
"There are a few versions of history you can tell your kids. You can tell them the propaganda version—the fables, the self-serving myths, the lies that dictators or the jingoists like to tr...
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Your Feelings Don't Count from 2020-09-23T01:00
"Parenting just demands so much more of you, just more than you ever even thought yourself capable of giving. You do it because you want to, because you love them, of course, but also becau...
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You Have to Do This. We Need It. from 2020-09-22T00:00
"There is a reason that this metaphor keeps popping up. Cormac McCarthy talked about 'carrying the fire' in his haunting novel The Road, which he wrote for his son. Now Alanis Mor...
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Don’t Be Like These People from 2020-09-21T01:00
"We’ve come to call them 'Karens,' but the truth is that being an entitled, obnoxious ass transcends gender. It has nothing to do with the haircut, and everything to do with think...
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Keep the Little Promises from 2020-09-18T02:00
"We tell our kids a lot of things.
We tell them that we love them. That we’ll support them no matter what. That they can come to us with anything.
We also tell them litt...
You Must Love the Kid You Have from 2020-09-17T02:00
"Maybe you’re an introvert and your daughter turned out to be an extrovert. Maybe you always hoped for a daughter and ended up with three sons. Maybe you wanted an athlete. Or you wanted so...
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What Can You Do? You Can Do This. from 2020-09-16T02:00
"Especially in the early days, it can seem like being a dad is to assume the role of perpetual third wheel. You can’t nurse. You can’t magically comfort your baby. It’s not you they’re cryi...
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Send Them a Postcard from 2020-09-15T01:00
"Maybe you have to travel a lot for work. Maybe you take an occasional vacation. Or you’re on the road a lot with one of your older kids for sports or school or whatever. The point is: You’...
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You Don’t Have to Have the Words from 2020-09-14T00:00
"How do you tell your kids how you feel? How do you say what needs to be said? There are so many moments where words escape us. Because we’re stunned. Because we’re scared. Because we’re an...
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Tell ‘Em More Than Once from 2020-09-11T02:00
"Do you remember the best piece of advice you got from your dad? Are there sayings from childhood that have stuck with you? That time you were getting teased and Dad told you that it was wh...
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Show Them How to Do This from 2020-09-10T02:00
"In 1952, Margaret Thatcher’s father was driven out of office when a rival political party won a majority in the election. His position wasn’t a particularly partisan one, so it surprised h...
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You’ve Got to Live Up to Your Standards from 2020-09-09T02:00
"It’s a touching scene. The father in The Road is giving the last of the hot chocolate they had found to his son. He pretends to make a little for himself, but he’s really giving i...
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Don't Judge Them Too Harshly... Or Quickly from 2020-09-08T13:00
"In the spring of 1921, a young ballplayer named Louis Gehrig had a tryout for the great John McGraw at the Polo Grounds. McGraw was the manager of the New York Giants and one of the greate...
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It's OK to Be Ambitious from 2020-09-07T05:00
"You have things you want to do in this life. Maybe you want to write a book or you’re in the middle of starting a company. Maybe you’re trying to win a championship or run for president. <...
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This Is How You Teach Them from 2020-09-04T02:00
"There is so much you want to teach them. When they’re little. When they’re teenagers. When they are out of the house and about to get married. When they are struggling at their job. When t...
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Make Them Do Their Own Stuff from 2020-09-03T02:00
"For some of us, it could be easily deduced that our kids have no hands. And no brains. We put on their clothes for them. We make their decisions. We clear the road in front like a snowplow...
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It’s the Thousandth Time That Counts from 2020-09-02T02:00
"C’mon, Dad, again! One more time! Can we keep going a little longer? Let’s start over! I don’t want to stop!
You’ve heard all these things more times than you can count. ...
You Can’t Stop. No Matter What. from 2020-09-01T02:00
"Nothing about Marcus Aurelius’ reign was fair. Fate tested him with one catastrophe after another. The Parthians invaded and triggered a war that would last five years. Then the River Tibe...
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It’s Not About the Stuff from 2020-08-31T02:00
"You work very hard and are able to provide. Not just the basic necessities, but all sorts of extras. Because of you, your kids have a swimming pool. They have nice vacations. They have the...
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It’s About Being There… A Lot from 2020-08-28T02:00
"How do you get through to your kids? How do you show them what’s right? How can you make sure they know how much you care about them? That you’re there for them? The answer is simple: You ...
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You Will Have to Take the Lead On This from 2020-08-27T02:00
"It feels elitist to say this, but it’s true: Public education is built for the lowest common denominator. It has to be. One of the beautiful and powerful things about public education is t...
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Teach Them That They Decide the End of Every Story from 2020-08-26T02:00
"As dads, one of the hardest things to think about is our kids experiencing hardship. So maybe we teach them to turn away from the things that are hard, to take the easy way, to forgo diffi...
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Be So Good They’ll Think This Later from 2020-08-25T02:00
"The writer Ambrose Bierce was a notorious cynic and curmudgeon. He was also fearless and hilarious and a father. At some point in his life—we’re not clear on the details—he went through a ...
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It’s About the Right Moment from 2020-08-24T02:00
"There are so many books you want your kids to read. The books that influenced you. The ones that changed your life. The ones you have so many fond memories of. The ones that speak truths y...
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How Are You Embodying Your Values? from 2020-08-21T02:00
"We talk to our kids about doing what’s right. We talk to them about thinking for themselves. We talk to them about being kind, we talk to them about so many important things.
But...
A Dad Provides for His Family from 2020-08-20T02:00
"You remember the famous scene from Breaking Bad. Walter has messed up his life. He is struggling. He meets Gus Fring, who is all the things he is not: Secure. Confident. Powerful....
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You'll Always Worry from 2020-08-19T02:00
"What is being a father but worry? We talked about that great image from Obama a while back. Being a parent, he said, is a little like taking your heart outside your body and putting it in ...
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You Must Be Unreachable from 2020-08-18T02:00
"You work hard. You have so many responsibilities. So many people depend on you.
Which is precisely why you must work to become unreachable."
Ryan tells us why it&ap...
You Have to Help Them Do This from 2020-08-17T02:00
"We love our kids, that’s why we hate to see them struggle. But maybe that’s precisely the wrong way to think about it? Because we love our kids, we have to let them struggle. We need them...
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Teach Them to Ask Questions from 2020-08-14T02:00
"Too often, as parents, we focus on the results. We care about their grades. We care about whether they’re turning in their homework. We care whether they know their times tables or whether...
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This Must Come First from 2020-08-13T02:00
"Trevor Ariza chose family over basketball. He chose his son—a month with him—over $1.8 million dollars in salary. He made the right choice, although it couldn’t have been an easy one. This...
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They Can’t Tell You This from 2020-08-12T01:00
“Your kids can’t tell you they’re having a hard time. They don’t know that they are. They don’t understand what’s happening in the world. They don’t appreciate what the disruption to their sched...
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Look for These Moments from 2020-08-11T01:00
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This Is Your Warrant from 2020-08-10T02:00
"What gives you the right? What’s your purpose on this planet? Why do you work so hard, why do you fight for the causes you fight for, why do you put up with all the crap you have to put up...
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Everything but This Is Temporary from 2020-08-07T02:00
"You’ve been working for this moment your whole life. To make it into the league. To sit behind the big desk. To command the squadron. To have the power.
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This Is the Enemy of Good Parenting from 2020-08-06T02:00
"There are so many sad examples: The father who can’t bear to be contradicted. The parents who refuse to admit when they are wrong. The mom who spends all her energy trying to impress other...
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Let Them See You in Your Element from 2020-08-05T02:00
"What do you think drew Steph Curry to basketball? It must have been many things, but chief among them has to have been the time he spent in arenas watching his dad play. The lights before ...
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What Do We Do In Times Like This? from 2020-08-04T02:00
"So much has happened and so much now remains uncertain. Do we go back to work? Do we let the kids go to the park? Do we stay inside? Do we start homeschooling?
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You Gotta Take an Interest from 2020-08-03T02:00
"When Margaret Thatcher was in school as a young girl, she was assigned books like we all were. Some were boring. Some were exciting. Some were strange.
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These Are Magic Words from 2020-07-31T02:00
"When you hear these three words, there can be only one response. To drop everything and look. To engage. To be flattered and excited, to love every second and to stare with rapt attention ...
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This Is the Secret to Your Hardest Job from 2020-07-30T02:00
"It doesn’t matter if you’re the president, a doctor, or an internationally touring musician—they all agree that the hardest job is being a parent. Because it’s not just a job. It’s the job...
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There Is No Party Line from 2020-07-29T02:00
"Should you let your kids have screen time when they’re younger? How young is too young to give them their first phone? What about sugar and processed foods? Should they get an allowance? S...
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Make Life More Promising When You’re Around from 2020-07-28T02:00
"F. Scott Fitzgerald lived a glamorous life and then he cracked up. All his talent. All his money. All the beauty and the passion evaporated. His wife, Zelda, wasn’t blameless in this colla...
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It’s Hard to Be Them from 2020-07-27T02:00
"It would be nice if the world was nice. It would be nice if it was easy to be a kid. Unfortunately, it isn’t. It’s hard to be the smart kid. As Stefan Zweig said, 'no one suffers more...
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This Is the Tricky Balance from 2020-07-24T02:00
"School doesn’t matter. It just doesn’t. Have your grades from elementary school ever come up once in your life? Even a Harvard GPA is unnecessary on a resume. That 'permanent record&a...
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Your Bond Should Grow from 2020-07-23T02:00
"Every father is different, yet when we hear the descriptions, or see the portrayals of fathers on film, it can feel like we’re the only one who is different. Every other dad, apparently, f...
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There Are Better Forms of Motivation from 2020-07-22T02:00
"When you look at champions—in sports or politics or business—it’s hard not to detect a theme running through a lot of their motivations. Many of these superstars, be they men or women, are...
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Show Them What You Love (But Don’t Make Them Love It) from 2020-07-21T02:00
"You have been looking forward to this for so long. The opportunity to turn them onto your favorite bands. To watch your favorite movies. To take them to your favorite places. To order your...
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This Is a Chance to Learn from 2020-07-20T02:00
"There is nothing that can prepare you for being a dad, as the cliche goes. No book. No class. No amount of seeing your own parents or siblings do it. So one way to look at this thing is th...
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You Gotta Give Them Access from 2020-07-17T02:00
"We want to make sure our kids have opportunities in life. We want to make sure that they’re not excluded or kept out. We work hard—try to make money, try to invest, try to get ahead in our...
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Try Not to Give Them Anything Extra from 2020-07-16T02:00
"We all have issues. We know that. Our goal as fathers, as we’ve said, is to not pass them on. To stop the cycle of dysfunction. It’s a low bar, to be sure, but it's an important one: ...
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Look for the Double Opportunity from 2020-07-15T01:00
"The jogging stroller lets you exercise… while spending time with your kid. The drive to school, or to soccer tournaments… is a chance to have that conversation you needed to have with your...
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This Could Be That Day from 2020-07-14T02:00
"It was just another day on vacation for the Roosevelts in 1921. FDR spent the morning sailing around Campobello Island with Eleanor and his two older boys. They’d had quite an adventure. S...
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You Guys Should Do This Together from 2020-07-13T02:00
"Each morning, Hugh Jackman and his wife Deborra-Lee Furness, get up early and, after they meditate, they read together. Ac...
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Remember the True Value of an Education from 2020-07-10T01:00
"You send them to great schools. You make sure they do their homework. You drill them on their flashcards. You are saving for college. You are not going to let them set their sights low lik...
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They Deserve to Be Sheltered (Somewhat!) from 2020-07-09T02:00
"How much should we shelter our kids from the scariness of the world? How much should we protect them from knowing about the day-to-day events of the world that they are not to blame for, t...
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Don’t Teach Them What to Think, Teach Them How from 2020-07-08T02:00
"It’s tempting to tell them exactly what they can and can’t do. It’s tempting to tell them what you expect them to do, or explain how the world works. But would you have listened to that wh...
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You Are Being Reminded from 2020-07-07T02:00
"It’s been a rough couple weeks. You watched your retirement accounts lose as much as 30% of their value. You’re watching businesses disappear left and right. Maybe you’re stuck at home. Ma...
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See If They Can Understand This from 2020-07-06T02:00
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They Shouldn’t Have To Earn This from 2020-07-01T02:00
In today's Daily Dad Podcast, Ryan tells the story of a young Lyndon Johnson and how his mother's adulation would turn into something worse, something that we all must avoid.
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Don’t Force Your Interests On Them from 2020-06-30T02:00
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You Have to Take Care of Yourself, Too from 2020-06-29T02:00
"We’ve talked before of the crossfire hurricane that is becoming a father. When you first become a dad, your whole life gets turned upside down. As you scramble to manage and handle all the...
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They Are Meant For This from 2020-06-26T02:00
"Maybe you remember when your kids were really young—or maybe they still are really young so you know this even better—what you could do to magically calm them down. It didn’t matter how hy...
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Seldom Should Be Heard a Discouraging Word from 2020-06-24T02:00
"If you’re not paying attention, it’s easy to slip into a habit of almost invariable negativity: Stop doing that. Don’t touch this. No, you can’t watch TV right now. Why isn’t your room...
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Be Spartan With Your Wealth from 2020-06-23T02:00
"The emperor Hadrian never had a son so he devised a very specific succession plan. He adopted a fifty-one-year-old man named Antoninus Pius on the condition that he adopt Marcus Aurelius. ...
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What Are Your Rules? from 2020-06-22T02:00
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It’s An Honor to Do This from 2020-06-19T02:00
"They say that the reason people have long shaken hands with their right hands was to signal that we came in peace and we’re not dangerous. They say that when dogs roll over and show you th...
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Show Them Their Hometown from 2020-06-18T02:00
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<h5 class="card-title"><a href="/podcast/the-daily-dad/you-are-on-the-front-lines-of-this-fight/">You Are On The Front Lines of This Fight</a><small> from 2020-06-12T02:00</small></h5>
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<h5 class="card-title"><a href="/podcast/the-daily-dad/be-a-towering-example/">Be A Towering Example</a><small> from 2020-06-11T18:00</small></h5>
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This Is How They Will Learn from 2020-06-09T01:00
"It was said for all the genius that Socrates possessed, Plato, and Aristotle, and all the sages who learned from him 'derived more benefit from the character than from the words of So...
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We Have To Care. We Have To Care. from 2020-06-08T02:00
Ryan discusses an issue that we as fathers cannot ignore, on today's Daily Dad Podcast.
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Teach Them to See the Big Picture from 2020-06-05T02:00
"Most of us are old enough to remember coming down to find our father at the breakfast table reading the newspaper. It was simply part of the routine, as it had been for generations, of the...
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This Is the Kind of Coach You Have to Be from 2020-06-04T02:00
"A father is a provider, a protector, a rule-setter, a friend. They are an educator and exemplar. They are also—whether their kids play sports or not—a coach. Because we have to coach our k...
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Teach Them These Four Virtues from 2020-06-02T02:00
"Aristotle worshipped them. The Christians and Stoics too.
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This Is What We Are Fighting For from 2020-06-01T02:00
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Show Them What’s What and Who’s Who from 2020-05-22T02:00
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Don’t Let Them Dislike Themselves from 2020-05-21T02:00
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Here’s How To Calm Your Kids Down from 2020-05-20T02:00
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This Is Something to Be Glad About from 2020-05-14T03:00
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What Is Your Anxiety Doing to Them? from 2020-05-13T03:00
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Help Them Become Who They Are from 2020-05-12T03:00
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Don’t Let Your Kids Be Worse from 2020-05-11T03:00
"Arthur MacArthur was a vain and conceited man. He was a war hero at age 18 at the Battle of Missionary Ridge. From there he went on to become a colonel, then a major, then lieutenant colon...
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What Legacy Are You Providing? from 2020-05-08T03:00
"Harry Truman was not a good businessman. The clothing shop he opened with a friend was a disaster—and he was paying off the debts through his senate career and into his presidency. Most of...
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What Will They Learn From This? from 2020-05-07T03:00
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These Are Also Magical Words from 2020-05-06T03:00
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It Feels Good to Get Them Things from 2020-05-05T03:00
"Sometimes it can feel like being a dad is just an endless series of errands. It’s the call from the bedroom that they need a glass of water. It’s the call from college for you to come to t...
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Can You Teach Them to Give It Their All? from 2020-05-04T09:00
"We talked before about Kipling’s poem “If,” which was written as advice for Kipling’s son, John. It’s a beautiful poem about toughness and virtue, honor and duty. But there is one line tha...
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Show Them What They’ll Get Out Of This from 2020-05-01T09:00
"Most schools and most parents teach reading all wrong. They bully kids into doing it. They pressure them. They tell them, 'Reading is what smart and successful people do.' Then t...
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These Are Three Wonderful Words from 2020-04-30T09:00
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You Have to Listen from 2020-04-29T09:00
"...As parents, we tend to do a lot of talking. There are all the things we tell our kids. The things we remind them about. The lessons we try to teach them. The books we read to them.
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Now Is The Time For Wisdom from 2020-04-28T09:00
"It doesn’t matter how old you are or how old your kids are. You have more experience than them. In some cases, that’s a couple decades. In other cases, it’s many decades. But whatever the ...
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Lift Them Up, Don’t Hold Them Back from 2020-04-27T06:00
"Family is wonderful. None of us would be here, the writer Aaron Thier once put it, if people hadn’t taken care of us when we were small. Somebody birt...
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This Is the Main Lesson from 2020-04-24T09:00
"There is so much we want to teach our kids—so much that fathers are expected to teach their kids. How to ride a bike. How to swim. How to throw a punch. How to tie a tie. How to read. How ...
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Character Is Fate. Never Forget That. from 2020-04-23T09:00
"These are challenging, uncertain times, no question. What’s at the root of it? How did we get here? And what can fathers do about it?
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How Will You Use This Time? from 2020-04-22T09:00
"Right now, most of us are stuck with what you might call dead time. We’re trapped indoors. We’re working from home… or not at all. Kids are out of school, and who knows when it will be bac...
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You Have To Treat Them The Same from 2020-04-21T09:00
"Does your dog’s gender matter to you? Like have you ever once thought about whether they were capable of this task or that task because of their sex? Has your understanding of their gender...
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Never Make Fun Of Them For This from 2020-04-20T09:00
Your kids will do all sorts of ridiculous things. They will trip and fall, and yes, you will sometimes laugh. You will tease them about this and that. They’ll make hilarious mistakes. They’ll lo...
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They Must Learn How To Compete from 2020-04-17T09:00
It wasn’t until many years into his coaching career that Pete Carroll really settled into his philosophy—the system by which he built his teams, and his athletes around. It seems simple but it’s...
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You Must Find The Stillness from 2020-04-16T05:00
This change we’ve made, this decision to become dads—it has uprooted everything. It’s like we were hit, suddenly, with a crossfire hurricane. The house is a mess. The schedule is grueling. There...
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Why Don’t You Know? from 2020-04-15T09:00
By now, you’ve almost certainly lost count of how many questions you’ve been asked by your kids. From the moment they can talk, that’s what fatherhood is—answering questions. Some you can’t wait...
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It’s Your Fault They’re This Way from 2020-04-14T09:00
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What You’re Doing Is Important from 2020-04-02T09:00
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Imagine What This Is Like For A Kid from 2020-04-01T09:00
Seeing your own parents now, as an adult, is stressful. There’s a great Ram Dass line that the comedian Pete Holmes has used in relation to his own parents: You think you’re enlightened—go spend...
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Here’s The Only Silver Lining from 2020-03-31T09:00
People are freaked out. Events are cancelled. Schools have been let out. You’re working from home, or, at least, not going out like you used to. Money is being lost. The elderly and vulnerable a...
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Tell Them of Cincinnatus from 2020-03-30T09:00
Do you know the story of Cincinnatus? He was a Roman general who had retired to his farm until he was called to rescue his country from an invasion. Made dictator in these desperate times, he ha...
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Your Job Is To Keep Them Safe from 2020-03-27T09:00
It’s in moments like these—a pandemic or a hurricane or a terrorist attack—that we fathers are thrown back into a more primal role. Yes, there are so many things we are expected to do as dads th...
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You Have To Help Them Discover This from 2020-03-26T09:00
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Nobody Wins in a War of Attrition from 2020-03-25T09:00
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From his dad, Bruce Springsteen learned about shame, about broken pride, and struggling with demons that you can’t quite conquer. It’s an all too common story, unfortunately. The lack of a stron...
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They Feel Bad Enough Already from 2020-03-18T09:00
It happened again. Your kid screwed up. They did something stupid—from drawing on the walls to getting caught drinking. They hurt someone or they lied. They failed a test or broke something impo...
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Give Them Access To This Wisdom from 2020-03-17T09:00
For thousands of years, humans have been expressing wisdom to each other through fables. Whether it’s Aesop or the Bible or ...
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You’d Trade Anything For This, Yet… from 2020-03-16T09:00
When Kobe Byrant took off in his helicopter from downtown Los Angeles on January 26th, he was a 5 time NBA champion. He was a 2x Finals MVP. He was a 2x Olympic Gold Medalist. He had won an Emmy...
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The Trade Off Is Worth It from 2020-03-13T09:00
These kids have changed your life. There are so many things you used to do that you no longer can. Traveling with no notice. Staying out all night. Sleeping on an airplane...sleeping in at all. ...
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If You Feel Upset, Do This from 2020-03-12T09:00
You’re upset because you just blew it in that meeting. You’re kicking yourself because you meant to get up early and ended up sleeping through your alarm and missing a flight. You’re stressed ab...
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Raise Them To Be a “Why” Child from 2020-03-11T09:00
In one of F. Scott Fitzerald’s funniest short stories, “Head and Shoulders,” a certifiable genius falls in love with a showgirl. T...
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Don’t Let Them Get Discouraged from 2020-03-10T09:00
We’ve all done it. It’s happened to almost all of us. We see a thing. We want to try it. It’s hard. And…we give up. Whether it’s karate, business, piano, reading, learning another language...eve...
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You’re Doing Better Than You Think from 2020-03-09T09:00
It can be easy to question your parenting. To feel like you’re not doing good enough, that you’re not nearly enough. You see what other parents are doing, or hear what other fathers say...
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They Are Always Listening from 2020-03-06T09:00
Have you ever heard your kids say something that just stops you cold? One of those remarks that instinctually makes you do a double take? It can be an unexpected curse word, or some preposterous...
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Make Sure They Spend Time Around Old People from 2020-03-05T09:00
In his book, The Vanishing American Adult, Senator Ben Sasse pondered what might strike a person from the distant past as odd about our modern society...
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This Is Something to Work Towards from 2020-03-04T09:00
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Introduce Them To The (Friendly) World of Ideas from 2020-03-03T09:00
General Jim Mattis has talked about his idyllic childhood in Pullman, Washington. There he spent time outdoors, explored, got in trouble, and had an all-American childhood. He talks lovingly of ...
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You Can't Prevent Them From Making Mistakes from 2020-03-02T09:00
Nobody wants to see their kid make a mistake. That’s why we spend so much time teaching them right and wrong, Douglas MacArthur was a complicated man. He was ...
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Where Will They Get Their Degree? from 2020-02-25T09:00
What schools are your kids attending? No, not what college or prep school. This is more of a “school of life” question. Charis Denison, a relationship development and organizational specialist w...
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You Can Give Them This Gift from 2020-02-24T09:00
In 1982-83, Jim Valvano coached the North Carolina State basketball team to a National Championship title. The Wolfpack was a mid-ranked team that entered the NCAA tournament looking like anythi...
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Love is About Service from 2020-02-21T09:00
Ernest Hemingway was not a great husband or, as often as he should have been, a great father. He had four wives, at least one affair, and was often absent in his family’s life, preferring to spe...
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You Are Letting Them Steal From Your Family from 2020-02-20T06:00
In early January, Kobe Bryant got a note from a reporter at ESPN. She was working on a story about a moment in Lakers’ history and she ...
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Don’t Be A Dream Hoarder from 2020-02-19T09:00
There is a type of parent out there. Career-wise, they are killing it. They have a good marriage to an income-earning spouse and together they make good money. They live in a great neighborhood ...
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How Could You Be So Stupid? from 2020-02-18T09:00
If you ever hear yourself uttering these words, “How could you have been so stupid?” to your kids—because they just got escorted home by a police officer, because they lost that expensive iPad y...
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Your Kids Will Be Whatever You Make Them from 2020-02-17T09:00
Dr. Edith Enger’s son was born with athetoid cerebral palsy. A diagnosis like this would be scary whenever one gets it, but getting it decades ago was scarier still. Dr. Enger (then not a doctor...
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Are You Teaching Them Gratitude? from 2020-02-14T09:00
Your kids should be grateful. Not to you and mom, of course, you’re just doing your job. You’re legally and biologically obligated. Your kids should be grateful for everything. We all s...
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You Can Be a Dad Anywhere from 2020-02-13T09:00
When we think teacher, we think classroom. When we think leader, we think the corner office or the lectern or a general in front of their troops. But the truth is that a teacher can do their job...
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Help, But Don’t Make Them Helpless from 2020-02-12T09:00
There is so much to do. Your kids have to be dressed. They have to eat. They have go to school. They have to do well in school. They’ll need jobs. They’ll need to figure out finding a home, find...
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Here’s Where To Be A Competitive Parent from 2020-02-11T09:00
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Blame Yourself—Or No One from 2020-02-10T09:00
A few weeks ago, there was a fascinating piece about the controversial NFL recei...
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Your Expectations Are A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy from 2020-02-07T09:00
The writer Thomas Sowell once noted, sardonically, how sad it is that editions of Frederick Douglass’s memoirs, when provided for high school students, were...
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What’s The Contract You Have With Your Kids? from 2020-02-06T09:00
In 2009, after winning two National Championships as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team, Urban Meyer stunned the nation by announcing his retirement. The self-admitted workaholic...
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Don't Wait To Be Proud from 2020-02-05T10:00
It’s a story as old as fatherhood itself. The son or daughter kills themselves to win the approval of their dad, which never seems to come. There is pain, resentment, bewilderment. I have wo...
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You’re Too Old To Act Out from 2020-02-04T09:00
When our kids mess up we say: Aren’t you a little old for that? And we have all sorts of rules of thumb for what things are age appropriate or not—what age they should stop having accidents, wha...
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How To Teach Them This Essential Value from 2020-02-03T09:00
Pretty much every parent wants to raise kids who turn out to be good people. Almost no father thinks: I’d love for my son to be rich, but awful. Or I’d love for my daughter to be famous, but vap...
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Get Rid of Your Preconceived Notions from 2020-01-31T09:00
One of the things Napoleon advised his generals against was “forming a picture” of the battle. What he meant was that your preconceived notions, your predictions, were a dangerous liability in s...
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You Must Engage With The Slime from 2020-01-30T09:00
Rules and regulations are important. A child needs to learn what behaviors are acceptable and which ones are not. They need structure and guidance. They need to learn about responsibility and ac...
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Don’t Baby Them When It Comes to Books from 2020-01-29T09:00
It’s interesting to think about the steady decline in expectations for our kids when it comes to reading. Sure, we want them to be able to read earlier than ever, but what about wha...
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Teach them Early Where Their Value Lies from 2020-01-28T09:00
The ancient writer—and father—Plutarch tells us of a parenting strategy he discovered in the works of Plato. “Young peopl...
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You Are Not A Babysitter from 2020-01-27T09:00
The late ESPN broadcaster—and father of two girls—Stuart Scott, was once sitting in a restaurant with some friends and their respective children. Everyone was having fun, and it was one of those...
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You Will Want A Crowded Table from 2020-01-24T09:00
Right now, you’re thinking about what all the other parents are doing. What schools they’re getting their kids into. What the best strollers are. You’re thinking about how to get them to do thei...
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What Do You Think You Look Like When You’re Anxious? from 2020-01-23T09:00
A couple weeks ago, we talked about the sobering exercise of trying to observe other people getting upset or losing their...
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This Is Good Advice For Your Kids from 2020-01-22T09:00
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Just Listen. Just Listen. Just Listen. from 2020-01-21T09:00
Ted Williams was not a good father. We’ve written about this before, but it bears restating for our purposes here that while he was ...
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You Have To Be Flexible from 2020-01-20T09:00
When you read parenting books, it’s hard not to get the distinct sense that there is a right way to parent. That being a dad (or a mom) means following a set of processes—backed up and ...
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How Many Times Have You Been Told? from 2020-01-17T09:00
You’ve told them a million times. You told them why they need to study before their test, and they didn’t and they came home with a D. You told them about how their effort is the only thing they...
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You Are Capable of Change from 2020-01-16T09:00
Ted Williams was not a good father—at least not for most of his life. He was a great baseball player, but for a long time, he was a really selfish and ruthless person. He came from a horrible, a...
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Nobody Is Better Than Your Kids from 2020-01-15T09:00
The great physicist Richard Feynman had a father who instilled his brilliant son with an interesting perspective about the world. Sitting down, he would lay the newspaper out on the table and as...
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It’s Time To Look in the Mirror from 2020-01-14T09:00
Kids are crazy, right? When they’re hungry, they are rude and difficult to manage. They are demanding and seem incapable, most of the time, of doing anything for themselves. They are totally ung...
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This Is Proof You Have What It Takes from 2020-01-13T09:00
Who among us is not insecure? We look around and see people who make more money. Who have bigger houses. Who have accomplished more than we have. This insecurity is compounded by social media, b...
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This Is Making You So Much Better from 2020-01-10T09:00
We talked before about how MacArthur had a kind of scheduled morning craziness with his son Arthur, who would enter his room...
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Where Is Your Ego Getting In The Way? from 2020-01-09T09:00
We live in a world awash with ego. We see it every day. We can see the ego of our boss, and how it has turned the office against them. We can see ego in politicians and professional athletes. We...
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It’s a Low Bar, But You Better Clear It from 2020-01-08T09:00
If you haven’t seen the fascinating Netflix documentary about Rachel Dolezal, a troubled woman who pretended to be black when she’s actually white, you shoul...
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All You Can Do As a Dad from 2020-01-07T09:00
You might not think of Tom Hanks as a father, but he is one. He had four kids, two from his first marriage, Colin and Elizabeth, and two from his second, Chet and Truman. You might not think of ...
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Do You Know What You Look Like Angry? from 2020-01-06T09:00
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Feelings Are Not Indictments from 2020-01-03T09:00
One of the things you have trouble adjusting to when you first have kids is the crying. Not just because it’s loud, but because it feels like you’re being stabbed in the heart. We are not meant,...
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A Dad Must Think The Unthinkable from 2020-01-02T09:00
It’s fitting that one of the most important things you can do as a parent would require you to think about a thing that’s very nearly impossible for a parent to even consider. It comes to us fro...
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Make Sure You Make Time For Crazy from 2020-01-01T09:00
Douglas MacArthur was a man of routine, most military men are. So it shouldn’t surprise us that he built a family life around routine. But unlike far too many fathers who make routine a form of ...
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Teach Them Early—When You Still Can from 2019-12-31T09:00
Cato the Younger was not an easy man to get to do something. If he felt it ...
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You Can’t Choose Your Parents, But You Can… from 2019-12-30T09:00
One of the best lines from Seneca is that while we can’t choose our parents, we do have the ability to choose whose children we will be. In a...
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If You’re Not Getting Better, You’re Getting Worse from 2019-12-27T09:00
It’s a sad sight when you see a dad who has clearly stopped trying. He puts on weight. He checks out of from 2019-12-16T18:00
There’s a story that occurs constantly in the biographies of many creative and brilliant people. It goes something like this: As a kid they had a question—maybe it was about how car engines work...
Don’t Just Protect Yours from 2019-12-13T09:00
We take care of our own, we say. Family is family. Blood is thicker than water. These are noble sentiments that have encouraged beautiful sacrifice, forgiveness, and accomplishments. One problem...
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There Are Things Better To Just Not Think About from 2019-12-12T09:00
Emily Oster is a writer and a thinker after our own heart. Frustrated with all the bad parenting advice—most of which seems to be based on old wives’ tales and ridiculously bad data—she set out ...
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Curb Sometimes, Spur at Others from 2019-12-03T16:00
Seneca was a father, though we don’t know much, if anything, about his son. We know he was a wonderful uncle, and that he struggled valiantly as a tu...
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Teach Them to Choose from 2019-12-03T16:00
It makes sense that you and mom would make most of the decisions for your kids. You guys know more. Your kids basically know nothing. About life. About what the weather is going to be tomorrow. ...
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Let ‘Em See You Work from 2019-12-03T16:00
One of the unusual side effects of our modern lives is how siloed work is for most people. “Work” is a place you drive to in the morning and come home from in the evening. It’s what you’re doing...
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They Don't Feel as Old as They Look from 2019-12-03T16:00
Do you remember when you were in fourth grade and you looked across the playground and saw the sixth graders? They looked so much older. So much bigger. Their lives seemed so much different than...
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Who Cares What That Idiot Thinks? from 2019-12-03T16:00
There are going to be moments in fatherhood—when you’re dancing to Baby Shark to entertain your kid, or you’re way into the third book in the Twilight series for your daughter or you’re...
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Don’t Give Them an Ego from 2019-12-03T16:00
You love your kids more than anything. You think they’re God’s gift (which they are, to you!). You want them to know how you feel about them, and you feel bad when they feel bad about t...
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Your Kid is Not a Status Symbol from 2019-12-03T16:00
Did you know DJ Khaled has a son? And his name is Asahd? Of course you did, because if you’ve heard of DJ Khaled even once in the last couple years, it’s probably come up. His social media feed ...
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How to Get Them to Read (Or Do Anything) from 2019-12-03T15:00
We want our kids to read. We want them to read instead of watching so much TV or playing with the iPad. So we make up rules or create incentives to motivate them to pick up a book (I’ll give you...
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Epithets for Your Kid from 2019-12-03T15:00
One of the most interesting passages in Marcus Aurelius...
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Punishment Should Make Them Better from 2019-12-03T15:00
Punishments aren’t supposed to be fun. They’re suppose to deter bad behavior. That’s why kids get grounded or sent to their room. That’s why we take away their toys or iPad privileges. It’s supp...
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This is a Fresh Start from 2019-12-03T15:00
We were all deprived or hurt in our childhoods. Even the best parents left something to be desired. Maybe we were ignored. Or maybe we were pressured too much. Maybe Mom’s insecurity was a burde...
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Your Kids are Not a Reflection of You from 2019-12-03T15:00
The philosopher Stilpo of Megara had a daughter who had a bad reputation. We don’t know what for, it could have be deserved or it could have been one of those ridiculously minor violations of et...
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Is It Really Time to Go? from 2019-12-03T15:00
Even the most patient dad gets bored. Or has somewhere to be. Or really doesn’t see what makes this flower--the 400th one drawn in a row--so special. So we want to prod our kids along. ...
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Practice the Pause from 2019-12-03T15:00
In her famous and controversial book Bringing Up Bébé, the author Pamela Druckerman talks about Le Pause—The Pause—as the secret to French p...
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Help Them Carry the Fire from 2019-12-03T15:00
There are brief moments where you get a glimpse inside your kid’s soul. When they meet their baby brother or sister for the first time and start to cry because of how much love they feel. When t...
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Blow Their Nose, and Your Own from 2019-12-03T15:00
Because women can seem so much better at this parenting stuff, because historical gender roles have often decided for them that most household duties are their responsibility, there is a secret ...
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It's All Quality Time from 2019-12-02T12:00
You’ll hear other dads talk about the need for “quality time” with their kids. It’s sort of a strange phrase, if you think about it. Because it implies a kind of hierarchy of time that nobody ha...
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Why Kids Like Their Grandparents from 2019-12-02T12:00
Even if it wasn’t such a relief for overworked dads and moms, it’d hurt a little to think about how much our kids love their grandparents. It almost seems like they prefer grandma and grandpa so...
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What a Good Sport Looks Like from 2019-12-02T09:00
As we’ve said before, Seneca was a father and a father figure to many people. E...
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What a Good Sport Looks Like from 2019-12-02T09:00
As we’ve said before, Seneca was a father and a father figure to many people. E...
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No, This is the Special Part from 2019-12-02T09:00
In her wonderful book On Looking, Alexandra Horowitz takes a series of walks in different environments. What does a geologist see on a city block? ...
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An Important Rule for Dads from 2019-12-02T09:00
The economist Russ Roberts is a guy who understands how the world works. He knows about the laws of the economy and government. He knows about philosophy and he knows about history. He Listen
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