Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Dad podcast, where on the weekends, we do a deeper dive

in 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.

And we do it over in the Daily Stoic studio here in Bastrop, Texas.

And 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, challenge in 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. So when I see how our children have trouble focusing, I'm getting some sense, because they can't

tell me what's in their brain or how they're operating, but watching you draw a note card

on your leg, which you're, I guess you're going to use for writing a to-do list later through a hole in your jeans. It does give me a sense of how their brains must be. Is that, is that our children, do our children take after me in that sense? Well, no, no, I'm, I think you're, you talk to me about weird things that I do and you go, oh, that's why our kids are this way. Well, you're always nagging me about fidgeting and making noise. And so I'm like finding an outlet. Yeah, but you're literally being filmed as you do it. It's so weird. I don't have any shame. Also, everyone who I see today will be able to see it as well and know that I sat here

well you were thinking about doing that you did tell me you were going to do that as a tattoo

yeah so like a week long idea that I had why it's not ideal for my to to like I don't write my

to do list on note cards so why was you doing ideal for me to do a note card tattoo right here

I need it to be like a book page size. Well, you know, I use book. I use literal book pages. I know. That's why I do. That's why I've used to write my on. Yeah, I think you just need a blank square. Yeah, for people who don't know, when you do signed copies of a book, they send you a thing called a tip end page. And they just send you the blank pages of the book,

and then you sign that, and then they bind it into the book. And there was extras. I think what book would have been? Stillness, maybe I had a bunch. And I started using those as to-do lists. So, like, the size of stillness is the key, it was like the perfect size paper. And I had, and I ran out, I had the publisher.

It gave me like many thousands more.

Okay, because I just said it.

And so you just need that.

Like mistake pages.

The what?

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