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.
Episodes
Family vacations: where the plans are made to be broken. In today’s episode, Ryan and Sam prepare for their upcoming summer trip. They talk about the challenges from past family vacations, how their kids thrive when routines are balanced with a touch of novelty, and the importance of letting go of rigid expectations.
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The exhaustion of parenting is real and understandable. But what's harder to justify is why we assume the worst about our kids.
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They’ve been crazy all day. They haven’t been listening. So what do you do? You get upset.
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We have to encourage their interests, without any thought of whether or not they might be able to profit from it.
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Just putting in the time is not enough. You have to put you in the time.
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When we see other parents say or do something that makes us pity their kids, we shouldn’t judge them—we should judge ourselves.
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Right now, we have the opportunity to teach our children about justice not just through words, but through action. In this solo episode, Ryan opens up about taking his kids to a protest and how that moment became a defining lesson in courage, justice, and civic responsibility. He shares how he talked to them about activism, why it’s not enough to tell our kids what we believe, and how real change starts with the example we set.
It’s always a special kind of magic watching our kids “find their people,” as we’ve said. But why then, do we as parents, not cultivate this for ourselves?
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Until it happens to you, you don't really know. You don't know how it completely rewires you, how it rearranges your priorities, how it fills a space inside you that you didn't even know was empty.
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They can see you on the phone…again. They can see you working…still.
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Just as Socrates welcomed young minds and gave them space to wonder, we too should create an environment where our kids feel comfortable bringing their deepest questions and uncertainties.
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How did parents in the past do it? They did it together. They did it as a village.
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Just because parenting is this experience we all share, it doesn't mean that the experience of being a parent is the same. Because what parenting does is it humbles you.
We discover a world we don't control, one that is too much for any one person to do on their own. This isn't something that you can just do by yourself, and that's why we've been working hard on what we're trying to create here at Daily Dad, like a community, a plac...
In today's episode, General Stanley McChrystal sits down with Ryan for a special Father’s Day reminder that you won’t want to miss. General McChrystal shares personal stories from his own parenting journey, lessons that changed his perspective as a father, and what he admires most about his son.
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They’re different. They are like you in so many ways but they are also so, so, different. What is it to you anyway?
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It doesn’t matter what gender your kids are, you have to help them raise above stereotypes, backlash and culture war fights.
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You can let this parenthood thing change you. You can let this make you better.
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We want to feel empowered. We want to be believed in. We want to matter. Every person wants this…and your kid is one of those people.
📚 Book Mentioned: The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault
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Communication expert Jefferson Fisher joins Ryan to unpack why every phase, especially in parenting, is fleeting, share wisdom passed down from their grandparents, and explain why nurturing your kids' quirks might be the smartest thing you do.
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