The Fire Is Real
“The last pages of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road are about the hardest thing any father will ever have to read. The man is dying. He knows it. He knows it means leaving his boy alone—alone in a terrible ...
10 Feb 20212min
Leave Them Alone!
“As we’ve said before, people have been complaining of the next generation...since well, generations. It’s an old cliche: There’s something wrong with our kids and their friends. They’re missing somet...
9 Feb 20213min
We’re Doing It Wrong
“When you think of your own school days, what do you think of? What do the days at school of your own children look like? Certainly, very different from what school was ever intended or imagined to be...
8 Feb 20212min
Daily Dad and Jessica Lahey, Angel Parham, Brett McKay, and Dr. Harvey Karp on Parenting
Today’s episode features clips from some of the best interviews about parenting from The Daily Stoic Podcast. Ryan talks to Jessica Lahey, Angel Parham, Brett McKay, and Dr. Harvey Karp about letting ...
6 Feb 20211h 5min
You Got What You’ll Want
“There’s been some iconic father-son moments in sports history. Tiger hugging his son Charlie after winning the Masters. Drew Brees lifting up his son Baylen after winning the Super Bowl. Michael Phel...
5 Feb 20212min
Prepare Them Now. While You Can.
“Life is easy now. We should just let them enjoy it right? Before they have to work for a living. Before they have to care about what’s going on in the world. While they can do whatever they want, whi...
4 Feb 20212min
Let’s Get To The Bottom Of It
“They have questions. You have answers. That’s how this works? Sure, if you want to be a human form of a Google Search.”Ryan explains why you should let your kids figure things out on their own, on to...
3 Feb 20212min
Give Them This Stuff
“The novelist John Steinbeck used to write his novels with pencils. In 1952, he was wearing himself out writing his greatest novel, East of Eden. He was also wearing down his pencils, one by one, as t...
2 Feb 20212min
