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This is All Temporary
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Joan Didion's Parenting Strategies | Ryan Holiday & Evelyn McDonnell
05 May 2024
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Show Them, Don’t Tell Them
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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You Were Built For This
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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The Important Thing Is That You Do This
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Anything Less Than Nurturing
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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It’s A Lot To Be a Kid Nowadays
29 Apr 2024
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Your Family Routine Is Crucial | Ryan and Sam Holiday
27 Apr 2024
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You Find a Way To Help Them Learn
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Have You Given Them The Right Priorities?
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Hold Fast To This
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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What Are You Actually Teaching Them?
23 Apr 2024
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They Don't Know
22 Apr 2024
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How To Make Decisions As A Parent (With Stoicism) | Mike Erwin
20 Apr 2024
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Teach This To Your Kids
19 Apr 2024
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You Have To Leave This To Them
18 Apr 2024
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Can You Do This?
17 Apr 2024
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This is Out To Get Them
16 Apr 2024
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How Many Are Left?
15 Apr 2024
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Getting Your Kids To Put Their Shoes On | Ryan and Sam Holiday
13 Apr 2024
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You Must Seed This Habit
12 Apr 2024
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Are You Building This?
11 Apr 2024
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You Have to Give Them Access
10 Apr 2024
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You’re Not Trying To Raise Well-Behaved Kids
09 Apr 2024
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Never Wish For Less Time
08 Apr 2024
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Morgan Housel and Ryan Holiday on Raising Well Adjusted Children And Being Prepared
06 Apr 2024
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These Are The Best Times
05 Apr 2024
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Try Not To Be This
04 Apr 2024
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This Is A Form of Real Poverty
03 Apr 2024
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What If You Didn’t Hear It Again?
02 Apr 2024
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How To Repair
01 Apr 2024
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Stop Creating Unnecessary Tension As A Parent
30 Mar 2024
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Kids See Through to What Matters
29 Mar 2024
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This is the Most Important Skill To Give Them
28 Mar 2024
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Another Way It’s Tough To Be Your Kid
27 Mar 2024
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You’re Probably Better Than You Think
26 Mar 2024
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This Is How They Feel
25 Mar 2024
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Ryan and Sam Holiday on Advice For First Time Parents
23 Mar 2024
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You Don’t Even Realize How Much You Say It
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
So why on earth do we so often signal the opposite? Literally and figuratively, we send the message that they’re bothering us, that they’re a dist...
Learning is Frustrating
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Being a kid is tough. It’s tough because they’re learning—often by painful trial and error—an endless number of lessons about life. What they’...
You’re Not Trying To Raise Well-Behaved Kids
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We have so many things we need to do as parents. There’s the logistics of it. The survival aspect of it (food and shelter). There’s the education ...
A Much Better Way To Motivate
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s important that we look for examples of people who have done great things as a result of their parent’s ability to believe in them, support th...
Tackle This First
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Connection first,” is Dr. Becky’s advice in Good Inside. Connection as opposed to shame, to criticism, to questions, to doubt, to consequences....
Ryan And Sam Holiday On Raising Well Adjusted Adults Not Well Behaved Children
16 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the Daily Dad Podcast, Ryan Holiday and his wife Samantha dive into the nuanced art of raising well-adjusted adults rather than mer...
This Is The First Step
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As Claire Tomalin writes in her book Jane Austen: A Life, we can trace the beginnings of Jane Austen’s greatness to her father’s library. “Their...
You Have To See What’s Really Going On
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
All that did happen. It shouldn’t have. It’s not ok that it did. But before you do anything, can you try this? Can you say to yourself, as Dr. Bec...
This is The Cure
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It doesn’t matter how driven you were. It doesn’t matter how much money is on the table. Having kids humbles you. We said recently that having kid...
Easy Like Sunday Morning
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why is your house so stressful? Why is everything such a fight? It doesn’t need to be. Sure, school is important. Rules and respect and basic cleanl...
You Don’t Have To Like It, But You Should Try
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It had been a long day. He was tired. He just wanted his teenage step-daughter Tegan, from the indie pop duo Tegan and Sara, to stop blasting the same...
You Are Your Kids Biggest Fan
09 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the Daily Dad podcast, best-selling author and renowned stoic philosopher, Ryan Holiday, shares an insightful and heartwarming stor...
They’re The Only Ones In There
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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They Need You To Do This For Them
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a story about Queen Elizabeth, told in Discipline is Destiny. After a long day of travel with her late husband, Prince Philip, the Queen fou...
Your Future Is What You Make It
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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What Will Your Kids See?
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As she writes her memoir Suffragette, these incidents illustrate to her “the fact that the impressions of childhood often have more to do with chara...
The Key To Real Happiness
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As we said recently, no parent has ever successfully shielded their child from negative feelings or distress. No parent has done it and no grown adult...
Are Your Kids Having Fun?
02 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad Podcast, Ryan shifts to the basketball court as he attends both of his son's game, unveiling profound lessons...
It’s Part of The Job
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Look, we get it: the iPad is a magical device. It can quiet even the craziest kid. It can take them into a world of learning and exploration that is l...
Deal With It Now
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We all have our issues. We had trauma from childhood. We have bad habits we picked up in college. We have scripts we learned, patterns we’ve repeate...
Watch What Happens
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In her book Good Inside, Dr. Becky Kennedy shares something that a mom wrote to her. “I feel guilty for all those years I punished my daughter and g...
You Are Different Now
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There’s even an expression (one we’ve rebutted before) about how a stroller in the hall is the enemy of great art. Parenting comes with so many ob...
It’s Almost Too Painful to See
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Only when it’s over will we realize it. Only when it’s all been stripped away will we be able to see.How not present we were. How much we took it ...
Ryan Holiday And Nathan Barry On Parenting Advice And Applying Stoicism In Our Routine (Part 2)
24 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks to creator, author, designer, and the founder of ConvertKit Nathan Barry on having kids ear...
We’re In This Together
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When we say “our own” we don’t think Americans or whatever country we live in, we think race. Or we think our blood relatives. That’s awful. T...
It’s Only Been Given For An Hour
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Seneca knew from experience. In one of the most dreadful periods of his life, he lost his livelihood, his home and then his young child. He was exiled...
It’s Like This For Everyone
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We talked about Lincoln recently, who used to bring his “brats” to the office, in the words of William Herndon, Lincoln’s law partner. As much a...
You Won’t Be Able To Do This
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nobody likes it when their kids are sad. It breaks our hearts when they feel lonely, ashamed, or frustrated. We’d like to just make this all go away...
You Gotta Cut Them Some Slack
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s hard to be a kid, as we’ve said many times. It’s hard to make transitions between worlds. It’s hard to come home after a long day of beha...
Ryan Holiday And Austin Kleon On Maintaining Healthy Habits & Growing As Parents (Daily Dad Book Tour Pt 2)
17 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan speaks with his longtime friend fellow father Austin Kleon during a stop along his book tour for The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Lov...
You Can Be A Parent Anywhere
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When we think teacher, we think classroom. When we think leader, we think the corner office or the lectern or a general in front of their troops. But ...
They Don’t Want This
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bruce Springsteen’s childhood was a strange one. His mother worked to support their family. His father was distant and harsh. He spent a lot of time...
Your Calendar Doesn’t Lie
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Marcus even wrote a testament to his love for his wife and their life together in a letter to his tutor Fronto. “I call the gods to witness,” he w...
It’s Not Easy To Be Your Kid
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s not easy for lots of reasons. Gay Talese, who knew the Didion family (who we’ve been talking about a lot recently), speculates in Evelyn McDo...
The Compass That Guides Us
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
These are the Cardinal Virtues, which Zeno laid down in the 3rd Century B.C. as:CourageDisciplineJusticeWisdomWe need these virtues and we need to tea...
Ryan Holiday And Casey Neistat On The Purpose Of Parenthood (Daily Dad Book Tour Pt 1)
10 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While on tour for his new book The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids, Ryan met up with his longtime friend and occ...
Aren’t You A Little Old For That?
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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It Should Be Part Of Who You Are
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There’s an interesting passage in Evelyn McDonnell’s fascinating biography of Joan Didion (who we have written about many times and we also just h...
Do It While You Can
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We all feel a little self-conscious about it. Our kids don’t behave as well as we’d like. They make a mess. They make an incredible amount of nois...
You’ve Done Your Job
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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It’s A Window. See It As A Window
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The tantrum. The whining about going to school. The punch that’s thrown. The slipping grades. The sneaking out. The lie. The shouting. The moping ar...
Ryan Holiday And Nathan Barry On Simple Parenting Techniques
03 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks to creator, author, designer, and the founder of ConvertKit Nathan Barry on having kids ear...
Your Character Determines Everything
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
These are challenging, uncertain times, no question. What’s at the root of it? How did we get here? And what can fathers do about it?The answer come...
This is Power
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rich is how much you get to see your kids, we said recently. We were redefining wealth away from material items and salary—although these things are...
You Ain’t Got Time
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Maybe you did before, but you can’t now. Before you could afford to get sucked into drama, to gossip, to get into long arguments with your buddies, ...
It’s Never Too Late To Do This
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve said before that it’s never too late. It’s never too late, as a parent, to follow your dreams—to show your kids that they can too. It’...
You Have To Come Down
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a wonderful state—being in flow. Getting caught up in your work. Getting caught up in the moment. And before you had kids, you lived for this...
Ryan and Sam Holiday on Protecting Your Headspace
27 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on how Sam prepares for writing Ryan, Integrating his routine in a wel...
Make Them Do It On Their Own
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There is a great story about a young Spartan woman, Gorgo, who would one day become queen. Despite her royal status, like all Spartans she was raised ...
Help Them Understand This Distinction
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We have emotions. We experience stressful situations. We have intrusive thoughts. So really what we have to teach our kids, Dr. Becky writes in her i...
You Can Go In A Different Direction
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our parents weren’t everything we needed. Maybe it was more time we needed. More understanding. More kindness. More support. More love. More just th...
You Gotta Let Them Do The Rest
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
George Dewey was a kid who got in trouble a lot. His father was always bailing him out. Finally, as a last ditch effort, he secured his son entrance i...
All They Wanted
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The bike was nice. So was the trip to Disneyland. So was being able to graduate from college without student debt. They appreciated the presents. They...
Ryan Holiday And Dr. Becky Kennedy On Emotional Vaccination (PT 2)
20 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad Podcast, Ryan talks with clinical psychologist Dr. Becky Kennedy on how we emotionally vaccinate, the ability...
It’s a Long Run We’ve Signed Up For
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The career opportunities are hard to turn down. It’s hard in the moment, as we’ve talked about, to be able to think too far into the future. It’...
Rules Are Important
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You didn’t like rules when you were a kid. Your parents had too many. Your school was a prison of pointless, arbitrary ones—how you could dress, w...
Show Them Like This
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There are lots of ways to read, ways that have improved the experience and opened up the world of literature to people who otherwise would have missed...
You Owe Them This
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You know your kids are good. You’ve seen their sweetness, their cuteness since the beginning. You’ve seen them try. You’ve seen them feel shame ...
Being This Young Is Art
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Ryan and Sam Holiday On Creating Better Systems In 2024
13 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on Their word for 2024 being systems, designing the system around people...
They’re Doing What They Do
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The late Paul Woodruff told a wonderful story in his episode on the Daily Stoic podcast. Before he died, he loved birdwatching and had a bird feeder i...
Help Them Become Who They Are
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bruce Springsteen has three children: Evan, Jessica, and Sam. One of them is an Olympic-level equestrian (which can not have been a cheap or easy inte...