These Things Don’t Matter
However much they seem to be prioritized by other parents, by certain cultures, perhaps by your own parents, or your instincts, in the end, it doesn’t matter.It doesn’t matter what color they dye thei...
23 Touko 20233min
This Will Haunt You
We parents are collectors. We have the photos from the day they were born. We have the first drawing they did. Their first pair of shoes, the tickets to that first flight. We have their high school di...
22 Touko 20233min
Ryan Holiday And CBS Morning Talk Daily Dad Book Release and Garbage Time
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks to CBS Morning in depth on applying stoicism, Garbage Time versus Quality Time & unforgettable family moments during a rainy weekend in NYC. ✉️ S...
20 Touko 202313min
You Don’t Have To Be Perfect. You Do Have To Do This.
None of us will be perfect parents. Our children will not agree with and understand with every choice we make–now or later. We are going to make mistakes. We are going to do things we regret. We are ...
19 Touko 20234min
Only Later Will You See This
“Only later,” Joan Didion wrote of her daughter, “did I see that I had been raising her as a doll.” Grieving, heart broken over the sudden and tragic loss of her family (detailed in the moving books A...
18 Touko 20232min
It’s You You Know
They are so like you. So like their mother. They have the same affect. They have the same bad habits. The same hopes, the same fears you did when you were their age. This helps you be patient with the...
17 Touko 20232min
Now’s The Time To Get It Together
Look, when you were young, you could get away with it. You could spend more than you had–knowing you’d figure things out later. You could be selfish because you were the only person that really counte...
16 Touko 20233min
The Kind of Marriage You Need To Build
There is a famous line we have posted many times here at Daily Dad, one that’s always popular on Instagram whenever it goes up. The most important thing you can do for your kids, it reads, is love the...
15 Touko 20235min
