Point Them Towards What They Can Change
We’d love to give our kids everything they want. We’d love to fulfill every wish and eliminate every inadequacy. We can’t. So we must focus on what we control, we must point them to what they control,...
9 Feb 20233min
What Are You Teaching Them?
We can tell them now, we can tell them early, that we’d rather them develop themselves as people, find their project, find their people, than optimize themselves to win such a deranged competition. An...
8 Feb 20234min
It's Still Hard For Them
The good thing is that our kids are smarter and more resilient than we think. With time, they’ll come to understand that hey, we struggled with our issues too as parents, as adults. The fact that we w...
7 Feb 20232min
So Little Is Left Over
Even when our kids get up early, we have, at most, a couple hours with them before school and work. Then after school or sports and work, we have what, maybe a couple more hours? Soon enough they’re a...
6 Feb 20235min
Daily Dad And Scott Hershovitz On Being A Model Parent
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan sits down with Scott Hershovitz to discuss how we can become model parents. Rather than getting angry with our kids for acting out we can identify where ...
4 Feb 202334min
This Is All That Matters
We need to deliberately let all the craziness and mundane tasks of life to fall away. Because all of those things that we allow to stick around, even if just in the background or further down the list...
3 Feb 20232min
They Already Doubt Themselves Enough
It’s not that you don’t think they’re great or talented. You’re a big fan. You always have been. You know they can do it. You just worry. You just want them to be safe. You just want them to find what...
2 Feb 20232min
Be More Than A Hero
From the outside, we can admire people. We can acknowledge and be inspired by their heroism, but we must still strive to learn from their failure to be great and be more than a good parent at the same...
1 Feb 20234min
