Your Calendar Is Killing Your Kid's Creativity ft. Kelly Corrigan and Claire Corrigan Lichty
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever asked yourself:
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"Am I truly supporting my child's unique passions, or just steering them?"
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"How can I foster real self-confidence and creativity in my kids?"
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"Is our family calendar too jam-packed to allow for true connection?"
If these questions resonate, today's conversation offers a heartwarming and insightful perspective on what children truly need from their fathers.
Larry Hagner welcomes the dynamic mother-daughter duo, bestselling author Kelly Corrigan and her daughter, Claire Corrigan Lichty. While not dads themselves, their lived experiences as loving daughters and keen family observers bring a fresh, invaluable perspective to fatherhood that every dad needs to hear. Kelly shares heartfelt stories of her powerful relationship with her father, George Corrigan, whose unwavering support and willingness to let her "lead" fundamentally shaped her self-confidence and creativity.
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In this candid conversation, we dig into:
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The profound impact of a father's unwavering support and the courage to "follow your child's lead."
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The importance of nurturing a child’s unique interests and fostering their authentic self, rather than trying to mold them.
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The surprising magic of simple, unstructured moments and their role in building resilience, joy, and lifelong self-soothing skills.
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The hidden pitfalls of overscheduling kids and how it can hinder genuine connection and development.
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Valuable lessons from their new children’s book, Marianne The Maker, on helping kids discover and express who they really are.
This episode is packed with wisdom, warmth, and actionable takeaways for fathers struggling with busy schedules or simply searching for new ways to deeply support their kids’ passions.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dad Edge podcast. The Dad Edge movement creates leaders of men, leaders of families, and leaders of communities. We will not only impact this generation of fathers, but the next generation as well. The kids we are raising will have better chances and odds stacked in their favor because of the amazing example |
| 0:21.2 | that their fathers emulated for them. We are here to change the world. We are here to change |
| 0:27.6 | relationships. We are here to positively disrupt this generation of fathers so no man goes to their |
| 0:33.6 | grave with regret. We disrupt the drift of busyness and replace it with razor-focused intention, |
| 0:40.3 | passion, purpose, and direction. |
| 0:43.7 | We are the Dad Edge, |
| 0:45.9 | and we're here to change the game. |
| 0:47.8 | We're here to change the game. |
| 1:11.5 | I don't know. What's up, gentlemen, welcome back to the Dad Edge podcast. I'm Larry Hagner, your host and founder of this podcast, this show, and movement. And today, we are doing something a bit different and really special. What you're about to hear is a heartfelt conversation with Kelly |
| 1:16.6 | Corrigan and her daughter, Claire. They're not dads, obviously, but they both bring some depth |
| 1:21.9 | and some insight that every father definitely needs to hear. These two women are writers, |
| 1:26.7 | their creators, and they're observers |
| 1:28.3 | of fatherhood. They share a kind of wisdom that doesn't come from stats or from strategy, |
| 1:33.3 | but through a lived experience and deep, authentic relationships with their own fathers. |
| 1:37.9 | You're going to hear Kelly reflect upon powerful influence that she had with her father, |
| 1:42.3 | George Corrigan. He was definitely the kind of guy |
| 1:44.5 | that made his daughter feel seen, feel valued and loved for exactly who she was. She's even |
| 1:50.6 | going to share some really, really cool stories about her dad, about just running errands with him |
| 1:55.2 | and how he just literally always just made her feel so special. It was, it was awesome because we really extracted |
| 2:01.6 | that gold as well. You're also going to hear Claire, who is a young adult raised in a house |
| 2:05.9 | that nurtured creativity and self-expression. And she got to unpack that foundation as she |
| 2:12.1 | navigated into childhood, which I'm sorry, adulthood, which has made her an incredible young adult, |
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