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 bestselling 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 weekend episode of The Daily Dad podcast.

I was driving my son to school the other day.

And he goes, hey, dad, can we have a lemonade stand?

And I was like, yeah, I mean, maybe why?

Why do you want to do it? And I assumed, because a lot of his ideas come from YouTube videos, like, oh, let's do a challenge

day or let's do this.

He sees little things.

He wants to, like, imitate what he sees online.

So I assumed it was like, oh, did he hear like a Mr. Beast thing or something?

No, he'd heard that two kids at his school had done a lemonade stand to raise money for

victims of Hurricane Helene. And he wanted to do his own version of that. He'd also heard about

like a friend of one of his school friends who was poor. And he wanted to help them. Like I was just,

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