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Austin Kleon: “Our Kids Need Bullsh*t Detectors!"

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Daily Dad

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

4.6630 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Bestselling author and artist Austin Kleon joins Ryan to discuss the challenges of raising kids in the digital age of social media and AI. He shares a recent Stoic lesson he taught his child about handling online validation, his strategies for making the most of car rides with his kids, and the key parenting advice he would offer to new parents.

 

📚Grab signed copies of Austin Kleon’s books, Steal Like An Artist:10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative, Show Your Work!, Keep Going, at The Painted Porch: https://www.thepaintedporch.com/

 

🎥 Watch the FULL episode with Austin Kleon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEYhYi27QqY

 

You can follow his work at austinkleon.com, Instagram @austinkleon, and Twitter @austinkleon.

 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Dad podcast, where on the weekends, we do a deeper dive and how to get better at our most important job, being a parent.

0:12.6

Sometimes in these episodes, I talk to bestselling authors and elite performers and other guests.

0:17.6

But lately, I've also been having conversations with my wife, Samantha, the co-parent of my two

0:22.6

boys. We do it over in the Daily Stoic studio here in Bastrop, Texas. She and I talk about things

0:29.0

that we're working on as parents, things that we're working on as people, and how we are

0:34.8

supporting each other, challenging each other, and like I said, trying to get better at what we do.

0:41.6

Guest or not, I hope you hear some ideas here that will help make you a better parent.

0:47.1

I was better for having the conversation.

0:49.0

I hope you enjoy.

0:56.7

None of us have enough hands as parents.

0:58.2

I know I didn't.

1:01.4

They want you to carry stuff and they want you to carry them.

1:02.8

And you've got your keys.

1:03.4

You've got your phone.

1:04.2

You've got all this stuff.

1:04.9

You've got to carry.

1:08.1

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