31 Books A Parent Should Read (The Ultimate Reading List)
The Daily Dad
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4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Instead of learning by trial and error, you want to learn from the trials and errors of others. You want to learn from the experiences of others. Nowhere is this more important than parenting. So in today's episode, Ryan shares his favorite books about parenting and the lessons that resonated with him.
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| 0:32.4 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Dad podcast, where on the weekends, we do a deeper dive |
| 0:38.5 | and how to get better at our most important job, being a parent. Sometimes in these episodes, |
| 0:43.9 | I talk to best-selling authors and elite performers and other guests, but lately I've also |
| 0:48.5 | been having conversations with my wife, Samantha, the co-parent of my two boys. We do it over in the Daily Stoic studio here in Bastrop, Texas. |
| 0:57.5 | She and I talk about things that we're working on as parents, |
| 1:00.7 | things that we're working on as people, |
| 1:03.3 | and how we are supporting each other, challenging each other, |
| 1:08.4 | and, like I said, trying to get better at what we do. Guest or not, |
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