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.

Never say these things to your kid.

Look, the things that we say to our kids, they stick.

Even if the words don't stick, the vibe of the words, the sense memory of it,

especially if it happens over and over again. We've talked about how like the voice in our heads that comes from somewhere. And it usually comes from our parents or a teacher,

someone we spend a lot of time with who said a specific thing many times or a type of things

or or used a certain tone over and over and over again.

These things, they stay not just in the mind of a child, but they stay there even when that

child becomes an adult.

That's what I wanted to get into in today's episode.

John Gustin is the creator of the Tired Dad. You've almost certainly seen

his reels on TikTok or Instagram over the years. I got past a bunch of them. We've shared some

on Daily Dad. He just wrote a really sweet new book called The Tired Dad. A hundred reflections

on showing up for what matters most came out on May 5th.

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