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. Sometimes in these episodes,

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

been 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. She and I talk about things

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

each other, challenging each other, and like I said, trying to get

better at what we do.

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

I was better for having the conversation.

I hope you enjoy.

Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Dad podcast. I don't know if I've ever won an argument with my kids, probably because when you are arguing with your kids, you have already

lost. It's very clear to me that my two kids respond to things very differently. One of them is

sort of, I guess, what you might call oppositional defiant. The other is almost too sensitive.

And so it's like, I can even see if I'm talking in the tone that one needs to get through.

If I give it to the other, he takes it too hard.

And this idea that there's different types of communication,

but then also as a parent, like,

are you thinking about winning this individual encounter interaction?

Were you thinking about how you build trust,

how you build affinity, how you build connection,

how you build a communication relationship that allows you to tell them

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