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It’s All Part Of The Process

21 Jun 2024

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You Do What You Gotta Do

20 Jun 2024

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The Trip Is Part of The Trip

19 Jun 2024

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All Parents Can Meet This Standard

18 Jun 2024

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Value This More Than That

17 Jun 2024

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Happy Father's Day Weekend! | Fatherly Advice From Top Athletes And Coaches

15 Jun 2024

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How Would You Feel?

14 Jun 2024

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It’s Not Fair That We Do This

13 Jun 2024

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It’s a Tough Choice

12 Jun 2024

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Don’t Destroy This

11 Jun 2024

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It’s Not An Excuse

10 Jun 2024

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How To Be More Present With Your Kids | Dr. Michael Gervais’ Parenting Wake Up Call

08 Jun 2024

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It’s An Opportunity To Show Them This

07 Jun 2024

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Hold Up This Kind of Person

06 Jun 2024

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Remember The True Value of This

05 Jun 2024

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They’ll Resent You For This

04 Jun 2024

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Send Them This Message

03 Jun 2024

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Feeling Guilty as a Parent | Ryan and Sam Holiday

01 Jun 2024

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Work With Them To Find Their Lane

31 May 2024

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There Are Limits

30 May 2024

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Those Things Don’t Matter

29 May 2024

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This Is What We’re Here For

28 May 2024

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A Wonderful Way To Think About It

27 May 2024

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School's Out For Summer | Ryan and Sam Holiday

25 May 2024

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What Our Kids Need To Hear

24 May 2024

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Can You Do This Right?

23 May 2024

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But Do You Really Care?

22 May 2024

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Wish This Into Existence For Them

21 May 2024

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How Would You Like Them To Describe You?

20 May 2024

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10 Stoic Parenting Tips | Tom Segura's Parenting Reflections

18 May 2024

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It’s Ok To Have Conditions

17 May 2024

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You Can Do This

16 May 2024

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It’s Simple (But Also Out of Their Hands)

15 May 2024

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It Works, Just Not How You Think

14 May 2024

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This is Out To Get Them

13 May 2024

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Create Your Own Parenting Legacy | Adrian Grenier

11 May 2024

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You Can’t Get Around This Math

10 May 2024

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The Important Thing Is That You Do This

09 May 2024

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What Would You Do More Of?

08 May 2024

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This Is Your Main Job

07 May 2024

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This is All Temporary

06 May 2024

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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

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You Were Built For This

03 May 2024

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The Important Thing Is That You Do This

01 May 2024

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Anything Less Than Nurturing

30 Apr 2024

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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

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Have You Given Them The Right Priorities?

25 Apr 2024

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Hold Fast To This

24 Apr 2024

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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They Need You To Do This For Them

07 Mar 2024

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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

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What Will Your Kids See?

05 Mar 2024

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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

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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

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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

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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...