As Cheryl Strayed writes in Tiny Beautiful Things, “You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt.”

📕 Grab a copy of Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed at The Painted Porch! 

Tinker, create and innovate with KiwiCo! Get $15 off at KiwiCo.com with code DAILYDAD

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

📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

It could be easier. But we do have it good. We really do.

 Tinker, create and innovate with KiwiCo! Get $15 off at KiwiCo.com with code DAILYDAD

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

📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

The ancients knew that character was fate and we need to remember that with our own kids.

📕 Grab a copy of Right Thing, Right Now as an ebook for $2.99 or grab a hardcover copy signed by Ryan Holiday over at the Daily Stoic Store today!

Aura Frames | Save on the perfect gift by visiting https://auraframes.com/ to get $35-off plus free shipping on their best-selling Carver Mat frame with promo code DAILYDAD

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

📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

They need us to be the adult right now. They need us to love and support them. They need us to encourage and inspire them.

Aura Frames | Save on the perfect gift by visiting https://auraframes.com/ to get $35-off plus free shipping on their best-selling Carver Mat frame with promo code DAILYDAD

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

📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

Make the decision today that you would want another parent to make. To spare you weeks of runny noses and sneezes. 

Aura Frames | Save on the perfect gift by visiting https://auraframes.com/ to get $35-off plus free shipping on their best-selling Carver Mat frame with promo code DAILYDAD

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

📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

It can be so frustrating to be a kid. The corrections. The confusion. Which is why we ought to make a little more effort to balance this asymmetry in wisdom and experience with our children.

Aura Frames | Save on the perfect gift by visiting https://auraframes.com/ to get $35-off plus free shipping on their best-selling Carver Mat frame with promo code DAILYDAD

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

📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

As parents we have a lot of power over the lens that we bring to each parenting situation, each crisis, each potential frustration. But there is one specific thing as parents that we should try to see, something that’s beyond just the good in things.

🎉 Celebrate Marcus Aurelius' Birthday this month by reading Meditations with us and the Daily Stoic community. On April 26th, 1905 years after the day of his birth, Ryan Holiday will host an invite-only LIVE Q&A to talk about all things Marcus Aurelius and Meditations.

Get 20% off with a Meditations BOOK & GUIDE bundle. Join the LIVE Meditations Q&A with Ryan Holiday by purchasing before April 26th!

Get all our Meditations offering and learn more at our official Meditations Collection at dailystoic.com/meditations today. 

📖 Looking for a Mother’s Day gift? Check out Storyworth and save $10 on your first purchase here: storyworth.com/dailydad

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

📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

This season of life, as exhausting and relentless as it feels, is also fleeting.

📖 Looking for a Mother’s Day gift? Check out Storyworth and save $10 on your first purchase here: storyworth.com/dailydad

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

📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

While so much of parenting feels out of our control—schedules, tantrums, illness, life's constant surprises—we can always control one critical thing...
 

🎙️ Listen to George Raveling's FULL interview on The Daily Stoic Podcast

🎥 Watch George Raveling’s FULL interview on The Daily Stoic Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ-ZQ2p0WhY

📕 You can grab copies of What You’re Made For by George Raveling at The Painted Porch: https://www.thepaintedporch.com/

MasterClass | Get 15% off any annual membership at MasterClass.com/RYANHOLIDAY

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

📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

There are some things that do not respond well to pressure. There are some things we do not control as parents. So let’s back off a little.

MasterClass | Get 15% off any annual membership at MasterClass.com/RYANHOLIDAY

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

📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube