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

at 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. 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, challenging each other, and like I said, trying to get better at what we do.

Guest or not, I hope you'll hear some ideas here that will help make you a better parent. I was better for having the conversation. I hope you enjoy. So I had this thought when I was dropping Jones out this morning. He needed like, I want two more minutes or whatever before he dropped him off. You just wanted to sit in the car for two more minutes before I dropped him off. And I was like, but I have stuff to do. I have this book to finish. And then I just had this thought like, I already blew up my life. Like I'm already hopelessly late and behind on basically everything. From having kids. From having kids. What is two more minutes? Do you know what I mean? It's like if you're hopelessly

bankrupt, you don't have to sweat every penny because you're not possibly going to ever be made

whole. And that was like actually very free. Like, of course I have two more minutes. It's all,

it's all funny money at this point.

Yeah.

Jones tends to spiral the two minutes, though.

What do you mean? He tends to, he tends to, like, allow his, like, he needs us to contain his emotions a little bit well first off i'm not going to do this absurd

role reversal where you're arguing what i normally argue and you don't actually mean what you're

saying i don't but i would prefer that you given that this is a podcast and we're trying to get

stay on topic here my general point about realizing i don't like the bankruptcy analogy that why not i

don't know you but like here's another it's like bedtime is at seven and then they're like but i want

one more story the seven is a made-up time like you already you already gave up your night what are you trying to what are you trying to

shave five minutes off of this thing for like who cares i'm not the one that's instituting the

role reversal here i'm the one that doesn't have great boundaries with the kids where i'm like

who cares let's just read five more stories let's do five more minutes and you're the one that's

like no we need to have the boundary.

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