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. And we do it over in the Daily Stoic studio here in Bastrop, Texas. 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 hear some ideas here that will help make you a better parent.

I was better for having the conversation.

I hope you enjoy.

Wendy Cummings, who's on the Daily Stoad podcast recently, better for having the conversation. I hope you enjoy.

Wendy Cummings, who's on the Daily Stoog podcast recently, she asked me for some parenting advice. I showed you what I said. But tell me, so, okay, so I said, number one, walks are magic,

just always be walking with the baby. It's good for you. It's good for them. Basically,

I said this before,

but like the oldest evidence we have for humans is basically in the United States or in North America.

It's like a person walking with their baby. So walking is magic. Routine and structure is everything.

I think you and I struggled, would you agree that like we tried to keep our old routine for too long? Like, like.

Not our own routine, but our own unstructured life.

Well, that, but I just meant like we just kept doing things that were part of your old

life that in retrospect aren't that important but have a very high cost.

So like I just think about all the times that we went out to dinner when we had little kids

in retrospect for no real reason that screwed up bedtimes or nap times or caused arguments

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