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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Every parent has a choice: Will we be an ancestor to our children…or a ghost?
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The everyday magic. The special little expressions only they make. The priceless moments that make up childhood.
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In today’s episode, Ryan shares 10 powerful reminders that every parent needs to hear. Drawing from the lives of Queen Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill, and Archie Manning, he shares what it really looks like to put your kids first, even when the world is pulling you in every other direction.
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For all time, parents have had to figure out ways to explain the reality of the world to their children—to make their children strong and resilient in a world which will try to break them down.
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They need us. To stand firm. To stand with them. To stand closer.
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Let's make a commitment today: to put down our phones, to be fully present, and to give our children what they truly want and need—our undivided attention and love.
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They don’t need our cynicism. They need our affection, our belief, our interest.
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Books are a wonderful way to slip past your children’s defenses. A wonderful way to indirectly give them advice. A wonderful way for you both to learn about something.
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We often think it's the big events that shape our kids, but bestselling author Daniel Pink reminds us it's the ordinary moments that leave the deepest impact. In this episode, he opens up about minimizing time away from home and why being there, even when nothing special is happening, might just be the most important thing of all.
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We're gonna mess up as parents. There are going to be things that don't go the way we want them to go. That's not ideal, but if we can focus on doing great repair after that's at least a start.
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As Cheryl Strayed writes in Tiny Beautiful Things, “You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt.”
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It could be easier. But we do have it good. We really do.
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The ancients knew that character was fate and we need to remember that with our own kids.
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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.
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Make the decision today that you would want another parent to make. To spare you weeks of runny noses and sneezes.
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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.
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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.
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This season of life, as exhausting and relentless as it feels, is also fleeting.
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While so much of parenting feels out of our control—schedules, tantrums, illness, life's constant surprises—we can always control one critical thing...
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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.
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