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.

We were sort of talking last time about, like, not hiding kid stuff, like, not like, oh, I'm running late, but, like, I'm running late because my son was having a really tough morning.

Or, like, I just, like, no, sorry, I can't stay that late.

Like, I have to do, like, making kids not an excuse, but, like, not this, like like they're the reason you do so much of what

you do so it's not like not don't like hide it or pretend otherwise um but i keep thinking back to

that thing that delores told me about how um delis is like sort of my grandmother but she was talking

about how um people would go like,

it doesn't look like you have kids, like because her house is so clean, and she like took pride in that, but in retrospect feels like, why was I like sort of prioritizing that so much? And I think like, it's like, do I have to make sure my kids are quiet, like while I'm on the phone? like it's part of my life. life this is how it is like I don't have like there I think people spend a lot of energy and a lot of like sort of even like parental authority trying to pretend like that's not what their life is like all the time do you know what I'm saying? Like, it's like, you never dress this way.

And then you're dressing this way that's one time in this job interview.

Like, just embrace who you are and what your life is because it's true. And if everyone sort of you, if everyone disarmed at the same time, we'd realize like we're all going through like more stuff at the same time,

but instead everyone's kind of pretending and it makes other people feel insecure.

Masking.

Yes.

Yes.

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