Why You Can’t Compare Yourself To These People
These apps are designed to make you feel vulnerable, hook you, and sell you stuff. While that is great for the social media platforms, it’s not so great for your family. And it’s definitely not great ...
12 Jan 20232min
It's Afternoon Now
Don’t be sad. Don’t be delusional. Adjust. Accept. Appreciate. Because, as Lindbergh perfectly puts it, “in our breathless attempts we…miss the flowering that waits for afternoon.”✉️ Sign up for the D...
11 Jan 20234min
Have Them To Teach Them
If we want kids who know their own space, know what’s appropriate and what isn’t, what will hurt other people and what brings a smile to someone’s face, then we’re going to have to show them. ✉️ Sign ...
10 Jan 20232min
Why Not Get Better Here?
If the Stoics have taught us anything it is that we should focus only on the things we can control. We can control what kind of parents we are. We cannot control the outcome of our actions, of course,...
9 Jan 20235min
Karen Duffy on Parenting With The Hand Your Dealt
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad Podcast, Ryan sits down with former actress and stoic Karen Duffy to discuss her latest book stoic inspired parenting book Wise Up and the importance of valui...
7 Jan 202336min
Remind Yourself What Love Is
There are few scenes in literature that capture love and loss and the terrifying but also inspiring moment of becoming a father quite like the end of A Farewell to Arms. And nothing quite captures lov...
6 Jan 20232min
Let Them Write Their Own Script
It seems like it would be easy but as we have found out in the course of our own lives, it’s one of the hardest things in the world: Figuring out who you are, figuring out what your purpose is.✉️ Sign...
5 Jan 20232min
Put Your Focus Here
You’re at the store and you see a parent talking rudely to their kids. Or letting them run around like it’s their house. You read some news story about some terrible parenting strategy that drives you...
4 Jan 20232min
