4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Family vacations: where the plans are made to be broken. In today’s episode, Ryan and Sam prepare for their upcoming summer trip. They talk about the challenges from past family vacations, how their kids thrive when routines are balanced with a touch of novelty, and the importance of letting go of rigid expectations.
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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 |
0:08.4 | and how to get better at our most important job, being a parent. Sometimes in these episodes, |
0:13.9 | I talk to best-selling authors and elite performers and other guests, but lately I've also |
0:18.5 | 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 supporting |
0:35.8 | 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. |
0:47.2 | I was better for having the conversation. I hope you enjoy. |
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1:58.1 | Are you ready for this trip, by the way? |
2:00.0 | No. |
2:00.5 | How do we make it not a disaster? |
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