The Daily Dad

By Daily DadSociety & Culture Education Self-Improvement Relationships Parenting Kids & Family

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February 06, 2025 If You Want Their Respect…
When things aren’t working, it’s probably because you are checked out, checking your inbox again, scrolling social media again. They can tell you’re not paying attention.

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4 min
February 05, 2025 How Else Are They Supposed To Get This?
You want them to be independent. You don’t want them to just blindly follow instructions or fall for every confident, powerful person they come across.
The trouble is that right now, though, you just want them to listen.

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4 min
February 04, 2025 Where To Find The Reward
Is the reward supposed to be that they grow up and be successful? Are you supposed to wait for their high school graduation or their wedding to feel like it was all worth it?

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5 min
February 03, 2025 This Is What Completeness Comes From
Parenting, we’ve said, is not about those exciting moments of quality time. Nor, it turns out, is life supposed to be moments of accomplishments or conquest or hedonic pleasure.

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4 min
February 01, 2025 Living With a Stoic | Ryan and Sam Holiday
In today’s episode, Ryan and Sam discuss the impact Stoicism has had on Ryan, both in their marriage and as a parent. Plus, they also share how Meditations by Marcus Aurelius may have unexpectedly shaped the foundation of their relationship.

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14 min
January 31, 2025 Be Ready To Use This
Who knows how much longer this chaos will last? What we do know is that everything we’ve endured, every lesson we’ve learned, every challenge we’ve faced, has been preparing us for this moment.
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Phosphorescence: A Memoir of Finding Joy When Your World Goes Dark by Julia Baird
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4 min
January 30, 2025 They Can Hear You
We know they’re listening, so we ought to use this opportunity.

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4 min
January 29, 2025 Show Them It’s Never Too Late
We’d never tell our kids it was too late for them, that the best is behind them, that they can’t recover, rebuild, or begin again. So why wouldn’t we tell ourselves the same thing?

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5 min
January 28, 2025 Three Rules for Life
“Don’t flinch,” Theodore Roosevelt wrote, “don’t foul, hit the line hard.”

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4 min
January 27, 2025 It’s Happening In Your House Too
They were a baby and now they’re not. Because we’re so busy in our own lives, we forgot about—we lost track of—that thing that’s always happening in the background, the passage of time.

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3 min

About The Daily Dad

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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…