It can be easy to question your parenting. But it’s important, when you start to feel this way, that you step back. Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Become a Founding Member of The Daily Dad Society here: https://dailydad.com/society Acorns Early | Head to AcornsEarly.com/DAILY DAD or download the Acorns Early app to help your kids grow their money skills today! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram ...
Jun 30, 2025•4 min•Ep. 1707
Family vacations: where the plans are made to be broken. In today’s episode, Ryan and Sam prepare for their upcoming summer trip. They talk about the challenges from past family vacations, how their kids thrive when routines are balanced with a touch of novelty, and the importance of letting go of rigid expectations. Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Become a Founding Member of The Daily Dad Society here: https://dailydad.com/society Protect your famil...
Jun 28, 2025•13 min•Ep. 1705
The exhaustion of parenting is real and understandable. But what's harder to justify is why we assume the worst about our kids. 📚 Book Mentioned: The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Become a Founding Member of The Daily Dad Society here: https://dailydad.com/society Protect your family with life insurance from Ethos. Get your free quote at Ethos.com/DAILYDAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com...
Jun 27, 2025•4 min•Ep. 1706
They’ve been crazy all day. They haven’t been listening. So what do you do? You get upset. Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Become a Founding Member of The Daily Dad Society here: https://dailydad.com/society Vuori is an investment in your happiness! Get 20% off your FIRST purchase at vuori.com/DAILYDAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube...
Jun 26, 2025•4 min•Ep. 1704
We have to encourage their interests, without any thought of whether or not they might be able to profit from it. Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Become a Founding Member of The Daily Dad Society here: https://dailydad.com/society Artkive | Go to ArtkiveBox.com and use code DAILYDAD for 25 DOLLARS off your box ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube...
Jun 25, 2025•4 min•Ep. 1703
Just putting in the time is not enough. You have to put you in the time. Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Become a Founding Member of The Daily Dad Society here: https://dailydad.com/society Vuori is an investment in your happiness! Get 20% off your FIRST purchase at vuori.com/DAILYDAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube...
Jun 24, 2025•4 min•Ep. 1702
When we see other parents say or do something that makes us pity their kids, we shouldn’t judge them—we should judge ourselves. Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Become a Founding Member of The Daily Dad Society here: https://dailydad.com/society Artkive | Go to ArtkiveBox.com and use code DAILYDAD for 25 DOLLARS off your box ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube...
Jun 23, 2025•4 min•Ep. 1701
Right now, we have the opportunity to teach our children about justice not just through words, but through action. In this solo episode, Ryan opens up about taking his kids to a protest and how that moment became a defining lesson in courage, justice, and civic responsibility. He shares how he talked to them about activism, why it’s not enough to tell our kids what we believe, and how real change starts with the example we set. Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and c...
Jun 21, 2025•21 min•Ep. 1699
It’s always a special kind of magic watching our kids “find their people,” as we’ve said. But why then, do we as parents, not cultivate this for ourselves? Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Become a Founding Member of The Daily Dad Society here: https://dailydad.com/society PESTIE | Protect your home from bugs with Pestie. Go to pestie.com/dad for an extra 10% off your order! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter...
Jun 20, 2025•5 min•Ep. 1700
Until it happens to you, you don't really know. You don't know how it completely rewires you, how it rearranges your priorities, how it fills a space inside you that you didn't even know was empty. Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Become a Founding Member of The Daily Dad Society here: https://dailydad.com/society Tinker, create and innovate with KiwiCo! Get $15 off their Summer Adventure Series at KiwiCo.com/DAILYDAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad emai...
Jun 19, 2025•4 min•Ep. 1698
They can see you on the phone…again. They can see you working…still. Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Become a Founding Member of The Daily Dad Society here: https://dailydad.com/society 🏛 All time can be quality time. Get your own Tempus Fugit Medallion to remind yourself of this at The Daily Dad Store: https://store.dailydad.com/ 💪 Go to livemomentous.com and use promo code DAILYDAD to get 35% off your first subscription! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily ...
Jun 18, 2025•5 min•Ep. 1697
Just as Socrates welcomed young minds and gave them space to wonder, we too should create an environment where our kids feel comfortable bringing their deepest questions and uncertainties. Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Become a Founding Member of The Daily Dad Society here: https://dailydad.com/society 📚 Book Mentioned: The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault 💪 Go to livemomentous.com and use promo code DAILYDAD to get 35% off your first subscriptio...
Jun 17, 2025•4 min•Ep. 1696
How did parents in the past do it? They did it together. They did it as a village. Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Become a Founding Member of The Daily Dad Society here: https://dailydad.com/society ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube...
Jun 16, 2025•4 min•Ep. 1695
In today's episode, General Stanley McChrystal sits down with Ryan for a special Father’s Day reminder that you won’t want to miss. General McChrystal shares personal stories from his own parenting journey, lessons that changed his perspective as a father, and what he admires most about his son. General Stanley McChrystal is a retired U.S. Army general best known for leading Joint Special Operations Command in the mid-2000s. In 2011, he founded the McChrystal Group, a leadership consultancy that...
Jun 14, 2025•18 min•Ep. 1693
Just because parenting is this experience we all share, it doesn't mean that the experience of being a parent is the same. Because what parenting does is it humbles you. We discover a world we don't control, one that is too much for any one person to do on their own. This isn't something that you can just do by yourself, and that's why we've been working hard on what we're trying to create here at Daily Dad, like a community, a place for parents to come together and share real world parenting st...
Jun 14, 2025•4 min•Ep. 1694
They’re different. They are like you in so many ways but they are also so, so, different. What is it to you anyway? MasterClass | Get 15% off any annual membership at MasterClass.com/RYANHOLIDAY ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube...
Jun 13, 2025•4 min•Ep. 1692
It doesn’t matter what gender your kids are, you have to help them raise above stereotypes, backlash and culture war fights. Check out Richard Reeves episode on The Daily Stoic Podcast | Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube 📚 You can grab copies of Of Boys and Men by Richard Reeves at The Painted Porch | https://www.thepaintedporch.com/ 🎥 Watch How To Be A Man (Lessons From The Stoics) on The Daily Stoic YouTube Channel HIYA HEALTH | We've worked out a special deal with Hiya for their best selli...
Jun 12, 2025•5 min•Ep. 1691
Enter a world different than yours, without the problems of yours, the responsibilities and the cynicism of yours. 📖 Looking for a Father’s Day gift? Check out Storyworth and save $10 on your first purchase here: storyworth.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube...
Jun 11, 2025•4 min•Ep. 1690
You can let this parenthood thing change you. You can let this make you better. 📕 Tomorrow is the LAST DAY to get the leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad in order to receive it in time for Father’s Day! 📖 Looking for a Father’s Day gift? Check out Storyworth and save $10 on your first purchase here: storyworth.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube...
Jun 10, 2025•5 min•Ep. 1689
We want to feel empowered. We want to be believed in. We want to matter. Every person wants this…and your kid is one of those people. 📚 Book Mentioned: The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube...
Jun 09, 2025•3 min•Ep. 1688
Communication expert Jefferson Fisher joins Ryan to unpack why every phase, especially in parenting, is fleeting, share wisdom passed down from their grandparents, and explain why nurturing your kids' quirks might be the smartest thing you do. Jefferson Fisher is one of the most respected voices on communication and arguments in the world. He is a Texas board certified personal injury attorney and law firm owner of Fisher Firm. Millions of people and some of the world's leading brands come to Je...
Jun 07, 2025•13 min•Ep. 1687
It’s fitting that Marcus’ biggest Stoic influence was his step-father because Father’s Day is just 9 days away! The Dads on the Daily Dad team put together a list so that you don’t have to go on a hunt to find a good gift for the Dads in your life👇 📕 The leatherbound editions of: The Daily Dad, The Daily Stoic, and The Obstacle Is the Way 📚 A signed copy of The Gunfighters by Bryan Burrough, Hello, Cruel World! by Melinda Wenner Moyer , or Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat 🏛 Tempus Fugit Me...
Jun 06, 2025•7 min•Ep. 1686
In honor of Father's Day this month, we're featuring some of our favorite entries from The Daily Dad book—like this one about developing resilience in our children. The book makes a perfect gift for the father in your life. Grab signed copies and our new leatherbound edition here ! ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube...
Jun 05, 2025•3 min•Ep. 1685
Let’s stop getting so hung up on whether this or that really happened. Let’s focus on what it means . 📚 Looking for stories to teach your kids about Stoicism? Check out Ryan Holiday’s books: The Boy Who Would Be King and The Girl Who Would Be Free: A Fable About Epictetus ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube...
Jun 04, 2025•3 min•Ep. 1684
For all time, having kids has forced parents to make changes. But does that mean we have to lose ourselves, lose all our freedoms? ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube...
Jun 03, 2025•2 min•Ep. 1683
Specially planned days can be special. It’s great to go to cool places. It’s fun to treat our kids. But you know what’s best? Tinker, create and innovate with KiwiCo! Get $15 off at KiwiCo.com with code DAILYDAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube...
Jun 02, 2025•4 min•Ep. 1682
As parents, we worry about having all the answers. Being a great parent is actually more about asking the right questions and not necessarily even of our kids, but of ourselves. In today's episode, Ryan shares 15 powerful questions that any parent can ask to become better at their most important job. Because the right questions at the right time can change how we think about things. They can change how we understand things. They can give us a new perspective. 🎥 Watch this episode on The Daily D...
May 31, 2025•18 min•Ep. 1681
Our children and grandchildren will live in the world created by your choices. 📕 Grab a copy of the leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad and learn how you can provide the structure and support to help your kids discover who they are today! Tinker, create and innovate with KiwiCo! Get $15 off at KiwiCo.com with code DAILYDAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube...
May 30, 2025•4 min•Ep. 1680
You don’t have the average kid. You have your kid. They have their own timetable, their own schedule, their own journey. 🎥 Watch Dr. Edith Eger’s interview on The Daily Stoic Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZHbBxW07ME 📕 Grab a copy of the leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad and learn how you can provide the structure and support to help your kids discover who they are today! Vessi | Get an instant 15% off your first purchase at Vessi.com/DAILYDAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email:...
May 29, 2025•5 min•Ep. 1679
Our kids don’t grow up at some point , they are growing up. Vessi | Get an instant 15% off your first purchase at Vessi.com/DAILYDAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube...
May 28, 2025•4 min•Ep. 1678
