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 lead 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 at Bastrop, Texas.

And she and I talk about things that we're working on as parents, things that we're working on as people.

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 remember how yesterday when I turned

off P. Holmes's comedy special without enough warning and you're like, hey, like you were a six-year-old.

Yeah, I also needed the prep.

Yeah.

It's funny because Dr. Becky talks about this in the book.

She calls it emotional vaccination, which is the idea that you talk about the emotions before they're going to happen or the event before it's going to happen, sort of building

up your exposure to it, which obviously

it makes sense for your kid when your kid, but it also, there's kind of a stoic idea in there

too because I feel like you doing it so transparently made me think, oh yeah, of course a six-year-old

needs it. Like if it bothers, and it bothers me. Like if people do so, like, hey, I was watching that or like, hey,

I'm not ready yet.

Like, without the warning, you have stronger emotions than you do if you get warned first.

Like, if we were just in the house together existing and you got up and left without saying

anything to me.

I mean, like, what? Remember, I'm leaving in 30 minutes, and then I'm like, okay, I'm going to get ready. And then you sort of putts around before you go. It's like a, it's a process. Excuse you. Not you. I'm saying to me. You definitely do it. You are, you and your, your, your family are notoriously slow at leaving. But there's actually a psychological, emotional reason to do it.

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