Podcast Episodes

Challenge Them Like This

You can’t just want tough kids. You have to make tough kids.

💡 The Stoic Parent: 10 Commandments for Becoming a Better Parent | Take the first step to…

1 year, 3 months ago

This Part Is Your Fault

As parents, our job is to help them learn how to do the hardest but most important thing in the world: To deal with frustrations and our limitations.…

1 year, 3 months ago

See It from an Angle of Appreciation | Timm Chiusano

When they mess up or do things they’re not supposed to do, do as Epictetus says and grab the situation by the other handle. What they did may seem no…

1 year, 3 months ago

What Would You Give Then?

No matter how loud, how messy, how onerous it may seem. We have it now, as loud and messy and exhausting as it is. Enjoy it.

📚 Sorrow and Blissby Meg …

1 year, 3 months ago

They Need You (And You Need Them)

A world where people are indifferent to the fates of people different from them is a dangerous world to send your kid out into. Our fate—our kids—are…

1 year, 3 months ago

Which Would You Rather Be?

Who would you rather be? Imperious and impossible to please? Or fun and proud and loving?

📓 Pick up a signed edition of The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations…

1 year, 3 months ago

Why Does Anyone Care?

You’re going to feel bad that you were so hard on them. Love them. Support them. Accept them.

✉️  Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com

📱 Follo…

1 year, 3 months ago

Show Them This Strength

Just like the saying goes: you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. In the same way, you only receive the help that you ask for.

📚 Grab a copy of Th…

1 year, 3 months ago

Don't Forget to Stick to the Facts

Reminder to all parents: stick to the facts and stop catastrophizing. It's a universal problem parents have had throughout history, Marcus Aurelius a…

1 year, 4 months ago

Don’t Cut It Short (If You Don’t Have To)

Of course, sometimes we have to cut family time short. But most of the time? It’s not necessity that motivates us. 

🏛 All time can be quality time. Ge…

1 year, 4 months ago