The Secret to Raising a Curious Kid
The Daily Dad
Daily Dad
4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The goal isn’t to teach your kids more. It’s to make them want to learn. In this episode, Ryan talks with Kenny Curtis about how to spark real curiosity in kids. Not by forcing information on them, but by helping them ask questions, make connections, and actually care about what they’re learning.
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| 1:56.6 | weekend edition of the daily dad podcast where on the, we do a deeper dive and how to get |
| 2:02.2 | better at our most important job, being a parent. Sometimes in these episodes, I talk to best-selling |
| 2:08.0 | authors and elite performers and other guests, but lately I've also been having conversations |
| 2:12.7 | with my wife, Samantha, the co-parent of my two boys. We do it over in the Daily Stoic studio here in |
| 2:19.3 | Bastrop, Texas. She and I talk about things that we're working on as parents, things that |
| 2:24.1 | we're working on as people, and how we are supporting each other, challenging each other, |
| 2:31.4 | and like I said, trying to get better at what we do. |
| 2:34.8 | Guest or not, I hope you hear some ideas here that will help make you a better parent. |
| 2:40.3 | I was better for having the conversation. |
| 2:42.2 | I hope you enjoy. |
| 2:47.4 | Hey, it's Ryan. |
| 2:48.6 | Welcome to another episode of the Daily Dad podcast. So a couple weeks ago, we were in Maui. I was doing some work stuff. I took not just my kids, but also my in-laws. And I was driving up to Haleakala with my father-in-law. He was sitting in the front seat. My wife was in the back. Two boys were there. I was trying to get a |
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