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 bestselling authors and elite performers and other guests.

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. Hey, everyone, welcome to another episode of the Daily Dad Podcast. I am bringing you part two of my

conversation with the one and only Dr. Becky Kennedy. We had a great conversation. Unfortunately,

not in person. I did it from the Daily Stoic Studio here in Bastrop, Texas, and she did it from her

house. But it was one of our most popular interviews of the year, Dr. Becky Kennedy's book Good Inside was one of the best parenting books I've ever read. Also, I think one of the best books I read all year. I really enjoy this conversation. I think you will like it. You can follow her on social. She's great on Instagram. I've gotten a bunch out of her stuff there as well. In fact, I think that's how we found her. My wife probably saw it first and we've been following for a long time. Then the book came out. It's crushing because it's fantastic. And I'll bring in my conversation with Dr. Becky Kennedy. Here we go. Isn't it weird though? Like putting aside whether parents sufficiently prepare their kids for those things,

there really is no mechanism in society or culture to deal with those things.

I mean, yes, some religions say this is a sin, don't do that.

Even beyond that, you know, I think this is what philosophy was designed to do in the

ancient world. And maybe you could say psychology and therapy is one of the only tools that we have for

do it.

But it's not like we have a process or a culture that teaches people how to do that or that those

are skills.

We sort of just expect you're going to figure it out.

And if you're a kid who didn't play

sports or, you know, didn't have like a really strong mentor in your life, I mean, you're just

going out in the world dealing with these things for the first time when, you know, a lot is riding on it.

Yes. I mean, I think it's something I feel so passionately about changing, right? Where I think the reason there's no mechanism. I mean,

there's a lot of reasons. One thing is emotion regulation can't be taught didactically.

It can't be learned in a book. It can't be learned intellectually.

It's absorbed through relationships. And that doesn't mean if you didn't get it in your earliest

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