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.

But lately, I've also been having conversations with my wife, Samantha, the co-parent of my two boys.

We do it over in the Daily Stoic studio here in Bastrop, Texas. 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 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 was on Scott Galloway's podcast last week or a week before, and he was saying something that made sense to me, which was that he said there's something important about activities

with your kids as far as like bonding goes where you're not looking in the same direction.

So he was saying like, there's something about commutes or walks where, you know,

he's like, I'm got my 13 year old in the car or driving somewhere and kind of things just come up.

Whereas if we were sitting across from each other at a dinner table, it might be too intimate or the pressure

might be high. And it's, it's been interesting with this commute we've been doing because just

spending a ton of time in the car with the kids. On the one hand, it's costing us an hour at home

that we used to have in the mornings spending together. But weirdly, it's actually, I know I try not to make a distinction in quality time and

garbage time.

It's weirdly like high quality garbage time.

Yeah.

Well, I think there's some study that was done about like high school kids that had higher

self-esteem and a better relationship with their parents.

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