Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Dad podcast. During the week, we give you a daily meditation,

drawing on ancient wisdom, giving you timeless advice to help you with your most important job,

being a parent. 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 last week. And here we go. So did I tell you my COVID scare story?

No, I only saw the video.

We've been really good during COVID.

Like, not good because we're crazy about it, but because we have unlimited flexibility compared to most people.

Like I can do my work from anywhere.

My office is like my own space that no one can come into.

And then we obviously live out in the country. You can have things delivered. And our kids are young

enough. They don't have to go to school. So like in March, we were able to pull them out of,

pull my oldest out of Montessori like preschool. And then we've just been, you know,

chilling at the house. And I go

into my office every day, but we've been chilling for like 10 months. Like I really haven't done

anything. We did like two trips. We drove in our RV to Florida. We drove once to see my in-laws

in Southern California. But like, you know, I've not been within like six feet of a,

of a human that I'm not married to or related to in since March, which is, you know,

not exactly how I would like it to be, but it's sort of what we've been sticking with.

And then my son, it's funny, we have this like little, do you have this for your kid, like Like that little like, it's like that sign board and you put like eight months and then you, you know, you take a picture of them next to it. Does your wife have that? We tried to do that and life got in the way. That was that was the plan because all of our friends that did something like that. But we've got the implements for them.

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