This Is A Tough Balance
“We’ve talked about being a fan of your kids. We’ve talked about believing in them. We’ve talked about encouraging and supporting them. We talk about these things because they’re important.”Ryan descr...
28 Apr 20213min
Your Family Was Given A Gift
“There have been incalculable losses over the last year. The death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic is staggering. The economic devastation is generational. And that is to say nothing of the missed gra...
27 Apr 20213min
Don't Just Assume It Will Work Out
“In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius takes a moment to remind himself of the “malice, cunning and hypocrisy that power produces,” and the “peculiar ruthlessness often shown by people from ‘good families.’...
26 Apr 20212min
Daily Dad and Nils Parker on Resiliency and Fragility
On today’s podcast Ryan talks to his friend and writing partner Nils Parker about the contradicting ideas of resiliency and fragility and the role that they’ve played in children’s lives during the CO...
24 Apr 202131min
Don't Forget How Small They Are
“There’s a wrenching scene in the haunting novel The Sweet Hereafter (not to be read for the faint of heart). A widowed husband is folding up the clothes of his late wife. He’s struck, holding her thi...
23 Apr 20212min
What Are You Making Them Do?
“There’s a line adapted from Aristotle but given to us by the historian Will Durant: We are what we repeatedly do. Therefore, excellence is not an act but a habit. The real question as parents then is...
22 Apr 20212min
This Could Be The Moment
“You’re busy. It’s just a trip to the store. They have been a pain all day. You’re trying to get ready to give them a special surprise. ”Ryan explains why every second with your kids counts, on today’...
21 Apr 20212min
What Game Are You Teaching Them?
“There are two types of games in this life: Finite and Infinite games. Finite games are things you do once and then they’re over. Infinite games are more like life itself—it goes on and on and everyth...
20 Apr 20212min
