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.

Waking up requires willpower certainly but you know if you go to bed earlier if you have a good sleep routine if you slept well getting up early is easier that's why we love our lofty

clock we have one on my wife's side of the bed.

Our nighttime wind-down routines make a huge impact on how much we sleep. Not having the phone

in the room is important, right? The white noise that it plays, the way it wakes us up. The Lofty wakes you up with this kind of

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get up in the morning, feeling refreshed and not frazzled, which, you know, on the days that our

kids don't run into our room and do it for us, it's very

nice. Lofty comes with a bunch of awesome features that you will love, and you won't get jolted

awake again, except for the days your kids rush in. It's got a library of daily meditations,

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Our kid is going to a fancier school now.

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