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.

And then on the weekends, I have sort of a wrap-up conversation with my friend, fellow dad,

and writing partner, Niels Parker.

We just explore what's going on in our lives, what we're struggling with as parents,

what we're doing well, what we want to do better, and what we've learned along the way,

and what we've learned in the way, and what we've learned in

the last week. So let's go.

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Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Dad podcast. You might

have heard my quick intro a couple weeks ago. I was telling you we were going on this

trip to Big Bend. Well, we came back in one

piece despite visiting a very hot desert in a very small RV, two very small children.

And not only did we survive, I think we had a great time. And so I thought I'd brainstorm some

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