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The audio companion to DailyDad.com’s daily email meditations on fatherhood, read by Ryan Holiday. Each daily reading will help you find the wisdom, inner strength, and good humor you need in order to be a great dad. Learn from historical figures and contemporary fathers how to do your most important job. Find more at dailydad.com.
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It Doesn’t Happen All At Once
No one is the parent they want to be. That’s the bad news. The good news is that most of us are better parents than we were.
We’ve talked a lot about the big choice we all have to make. Are we just somebody who has kids? Or are we a parent? And while this is a choice, it’s also more of an aspiration. You don’t magically, suddenly become the perfect parent. How could you? There’s so much you don’t know, so many lessons you haven’t learned, so many gifts you haven’t been given yet. So much stuff hasn’t happened yet.
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This Will Make Your Life (And Kids) Better
Most times, we’re in need of all the help we can get. We read parenting books, or watch parenting videos, trying to find those keys to make our lives just a little bit easier. That’s why we created the Daily Dad email, after all. Seneca said that we ought to acquire one thing per day – whether that’s a quote, a story, a relationship that makes us better, it doesn’t matter. We try to deliver that one thing in each email.
But of course, we couldn’t do it alone. When trying to deliver that one thing to you each day, we often need one thing ourselves to inspire us, to help us become the best people and parents that we can be. Some of these things are books. Some are items to carry with you, or to keep on your desk. Some make for great holiday gifts. Some you might want to share with new or expecting parents.
In any form, check them out…and pass them along if they work.
The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Love, Parenting, and Raising Great Kids by Ryan Holiday
In each of his letters to his friend Lucilius , Seneca would include a quote, something to chew on, a thought to guide the day. “Each day,” he told Lucilius, you should “acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes, as well.” Just one thing.
Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be by Dr. Becky Kennedy
When we talk about parenting books that completely change your perspective about raising your kids, we’re probably talking about this one. We’ve talked about it plenty of times before (like here, here, and here), and will inevitably keep returning to it, not only because it’s a book about becoming a better parent, but it’s also about simply becoming a better person. It’s about building empathy.
How to Raise Kids Who Aren’t Assholes by Melinda Wenner Moyer
At some point, we’ve all been scared that our kids will be bad people, that they won’t be the respectful and hard-working person we thought we raised them to be.
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They Are Doing Their Job
We’ve been talking about Dr. Becky’s wonderful book Good Inside recently (a must read!), and she has a great little section where she’s talking about a parent who ends up having to pick up and physically remove their child from a situation where they are hitting their younger sibling. There’s guilt and frustration and fear and so much that comes up in these situations.
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They Deserve To Know
It’s dark stuff. It’s not pleasant. We wish it wasn’t true.
But that doesn’t mean we can hide it from our children. Because it did happen. And it can easily happen again if we’re not careful.
John G. Burnett knew this. That’s why on his birthday in 1890, he finally told his children what happened when he was in the army in 1838. He told them what he saw at what’s become known as the Trail of Tears.
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Ryan And Sam On Who Makes The Decision
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on understanding the alternatives later and making the decision, while teaching our children the correct instincts while their away from home.
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You’re Making Them Hungry
It does work. We have to concede that. For generations, some parents have tried withholding praise, withholding pride, withholding approval so that their kids don’t feel entitled to it. The idea is that this will make them hungry, make them really work for it. No participation trophies here! You’ve got to earn it in my house!
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Customer Reviews
Wonderful And Insightful
Ryan speaks insightfully to his readers, giving thought provoking strategies and wisdom in a World were a lot of the “Parents Raising Kids” are “Kids Raising Parents.” This podcast has helped me grow and mature while still learning to be as playful as a child! Gratitude my friend!
You Need To Calm Down
“As the GREAT Taylor Swift tells us”
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Never Disappointing
Ryan makes a difference. His art reveals a complex but compassionate and caring voice. That voice is evident in his podcasts and books. We’re all fortunate he’s used his talents the way he has. Listening to this and his other forms of media will not disappoint. He may push you a bit but this is likely needed if you’re listening to these kinds of podcasts. But no one is perfect. Thank you Ryan 🙏🏽❤️