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 best-selling 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.

There's this age where your kids are suddenly, like, aware of what's happening in the world.

They have their own sense of what's cool or not.

I don't know when I thought this age would be, but it is real fast.

My six-year-old's telling me stuff that he thinks is cool.

He's telling me stuff he thinks it's not cool. My nine-year-old is telling me stuff that he thinks is cool. He's telling me stuff he thinks it's not cool.

My nine-year-old is talking about memes and jokes.

And, God, if you've got a young kid, you know all about six, seven and all this ridiculous stuff.

Like, they're plugged into culture now in a way that I don't think I was when I was six or seven.

A couple of months ago, I had Chuck Klosterman on the podcast. One of my favorite writers writes about so many different topics, but sports, I think, sports and music are his

specialties. And I don't know how, but we had this weird tangent where we were talking about

how being a parent, it reshapes your relationship to music,

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