Stop Doing These 5 Things as a Parent
The Daily Dad
Daily Dad
4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Ryan breaks down five common parenting “don’ts” that even thoughtful, well-intentioned parents fall into. He talks about why these parenting habits backfire, what to do instead, and how everything changes when you stop trying to do everything perfectly.
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| 0:32.6 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Dad podcast, where on the weekends, we do a deeper dive |
| 0:38.5 | and how to get better at our most important job, being a parent. Sometimes in these episodes, |
| 0:44.0 | I talk to best-selling authors and elite performers and other guests. But lately, I've also |
| 0:48.6 | been having conversations with my wife, Samantha, the co-parent of my two boys. We do it over in the Daily Stoic studio here |
| 0:56.1 | in Bastrop, Texas. She and I talk about things that we're working on as parents, things that |
| 1:01.1 | we're working on as people, and how we are supporting each other, challenging each other, |
| 1:08.4 | and like I said, trying to get better at what we do. |
| 1:11.7 | Guest or not, I hope you hear some ideas here that will help make you a better parent. |
| 1:17.3 | I was better for having the conversation. |
| 1:19.1 | I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:24.2 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. |
| 1:25.6 | Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Dad podcast. I wanted to compile something today. As you know, we write these daily emails. And I feel like there's all these things that you're supposed to do as parents. And we have a good intuitive sense of that. But I try to think about the things I need to stop doing that I shouldn't do. Some parenting don'ts. So in today's episode, I'm compiling some of the best lessons, ideas, insights that |
| 1:51.2 | we've gotten, either from podcast guests or the emails over the years, and compiled them |
| 1:57.3 | into some parenting don'ts about not burdening them, don't depriving them of |
| 2:02.3 | this thing that really matters. Don't give them this. Don't hurry them along and don't wish for them |
| 2:08.8 | to be anything but what they are. I think you're really going to like this episode. It's five |
| 2:15.3 | parenting don'ts that I think are worth ruminating on this weekend. Enjoy. |
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