Daily Dad and Emily Oster on Rational Parenting

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

4.6 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Ryan has a wide-ranging conversation with professor and economist Emily Oster. They talk about how to balance your life with children, how to communicate positive messaging, how the American government handled the pandemic, and more.

Emily Oster is a professor of economics at Brown University, as well as the bestselling author of several books. Her most recent book, Cribsheet, aims to help improve decision making during the early years of parenting.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast. During the week, we bring you a daily meditation of the best parenting wisdom we can find drawing on history and philosophy and psychology and literature to inspire you to be a little bit better at the most important job you have.
0:20.2	And then on the weekends,
0:21.2	I have sort of a wrap-up conversation with my friend, fellow dad, and writing partner,
0:25.9	Niels Parker. We just explore what's going on in our lives, what we're struggling with as
0:30.2	parents, what we're doing well, what we want to do better, and what we've learned along the way,
0:34.5	and what we've learned in the last week. So let's go.
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1:38.9	Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast. Today I have a bit of a special episode for you. This is actually an interview I
1:46.8	originally did for The Daily Stoic, but I wanted to sit down with Emily Oster, the author of
1:52.5	Expecting Better and Cribb Sheet. She's just a world-class expert on parenting, but she's got a really
1:59.4	sort of counter-contrarian attitude.
2:03.0	My wife loves her stuff.
2:04.5	I love her stuff.
2:05.4	This was a great conversation.
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