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The Daily Dad

8 Honest Lessons Every Parent Needs to Hear

The Daily Dad

Daily Dad

Dads, Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Fatherhood, Education, Wisdom, Relationships, Ryan Holiday, Self-improvement, Parenting

4.6629 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve ever felt like everyone else has parenting figured out, this episode is for you. Ryan shares eight pieces of advice that are honest, imperfect, and actually useful reminders for real life.


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0:32.6

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,

0:43.8

I talk to best-selling authors and elite performers and other guests, but lately I've also been

0:48.7

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.

0:57.6

She and I talk about things that we're working on as parents, things that we're working on

1:01.9

as people, and how we are supporting each other, challenging each other, and like I said,

1:09.8

trying to get better at what we do. Guest or not,

1:12.6

I hope you hear some ideas here that will help make you a better parent. I was better for having

1:18.1

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2:43.4

Our kids are not an interruption from our work.

2:44.4

They are our work.

2:45.4

They are our world.

2:47.4

Let them have their childhood.

2:49.9

Stop trying to change them.

2:52.7

Let them experiment. Let them discover themselves. Let them discover their truths. We're not raising grass. In his induction speech for the baseball

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