The Daily Dad

As we approach the end of 2024 and look toward the start of 2025, we have an opportunity to take a hard, honest look at ourselves.  What example are you setting for your kids that, deep down, you know you need to change? The Daily Stoic New Year, New You Challenge is 3 weeks of ALL-NEW, actionable challenges, presented in an email per day, built around the best, most timeless wisdom in Stoic philosophy, to help you create a better life, and a new you in 2025. Why 3 weeks? Because it takes human beings 21 days to build new habits and skills, to create the muscle memory of making beautiful choices each and every day.Head over to dailystoic.com/challenge today to sign up. HUEL | Get 15% off with code DAILY DAD at Huel.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

Our job as parents is to help our kids “become who they are.” This is true, but our job is also to expand who they are. 🎙️Listen to Richard Reeves'  interview on The Daily Stoic podcast PART 1: Apple Podcasts & SpotifyPART 2: Apple Podcasts & Spotify 🎥 Watch Richard Reeves’ interview with Ryan on YouTube 📕 We’re excited to announce that we’ve put together a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad just in time for the holidays! Check it out at dailydad.com/leather Aura | Get $35 off with code DAILY DAD at auraframes.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

As parents, we obviously have to provide for them. Obviously we have to protect them. But what is the job? Storyworth | Save $10 on your first purchase at https://storyworth.com/dailydad✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

It’s easy to feel like you’re falling behind when the other parents seem to have it all: nicer cars, stylish clothes, and a picture-perfect life. Today, Ryan and Sam share their experience of moving one of their children to a school in a wealthier area, and how this transition has been a powerful reminder to stop trying to 'keep up with the Joneses' and focus on what truly matters.Loftie | Use code DAILYDAD20 to get 20% off orders over $125! Head to ByLoftie.com✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

It is not too late for us to love our kids. To love them completely. The Daily Stoic New Year, New You Challenge is 3 weeks of ALL-NEW, actionable challenges, presented in an email per day, built around the best, most timeless wisdom in Stoic philosophy, to help you create a better life, and a new you in 2025. Why 3 weeks? Because it takes human beings 21 days to build new habits and skills, to create the muscle memory of making beautiful choices each and every day.Head over to dailystoic.com/challenge today to sign up. Storyworth | Save $10 on your first purchase at https://storyworth.com/dailydad Cheesecakes by Elizabeth | Get 15% off your order with code DAILY DAD at https://cheesecakesbyelizabeth.com/ ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” — Dr. Seuss 🎁 We’re excited to announce that we’ve put together a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad just in time for the holidays! Check it out at dailydad.com/leather 💪 Go to livemomentous.com and get 15% off with the code DAILYDAD15✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

When we hold back some answers, it’s not because we don’t love them—it’s because we love them so deeply.Our Luctor Et Emergo Medallion will help you remember to slow down and take advantage of teachable moments with your children. Grab your Luctor Et Emergo Medallion at our Daily Dad store!Loftie | Use code DAILYDAD20 to get 20% off orders over $125! Head to ByLoftie.comCheesecakes by Elizabeth | Get 15% off your order with code DAILY DAD✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube  

This is our most important job. It’s tough, sure, but it’s a thing that soon enough we will miss. We’re excited to announce that we’ve put together a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad just in time for the holidays! Check it out at dailydad.com/leather 💪 Go to livemomentous.com and get 15% off with the code DAILYDAD15 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube 

Your kids like what they like. But first, they need your encouragement to start somewhere. We’re excited to announce that we’ve put together a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad just in time for the holidays! Check it out at dailydad.com/leather Storyworth | Save $10 on your first purchase at https://storyworth.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

It's our job to show our kids that they have the power to instigate change within themselves and their communities, regardless of external circumstances. Sharon McMahon, author of The Small and the Mighty, talks with Ryan about how parents can instill hope in their kids and show them that making a difference is accessible. Sharon is known as “America’s Government Teacher,” and after years as a high school government teacher, Sharon now runs the non-partisan, fact-based Instagram account @sharonsaysso.  Sharon just released her book, The Small and the Mighty, where she proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn’t make it into the textbooks.📚 You can grab signed copies of The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon at The Painted Porch. 🎙️Listen to Sharon’s FULL interview on The Daily Stoic podcast | Apple Podcasts & SpotifyCheck out Sharon’s podcast Here’s Where It Gets Interesting and follow her on Instagram  @SharonSaysSo  and on X @Sharon_Says_SoKiwiCo | Get up to 50% off your first crate at kiwico.com with promo code DAILY DADAura | Get $35 off with code DAILY DAD at auraframes.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube 

As a parent, all we control is what we teach our kids, what we do for and with them. KiwiCo | Get up to 50% off your first crate at kiwico.com with promo code DAILY DAD ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

We can’t just throw up our hands and say, “I’m busy, I can’t deal with this.” Because not only is that not fair to our children, it’s not fair to us.📚 Pick up a copy of Elizabeth the Queen by Sally Bedell Smith at The Painted PorchThis is a paid advertisement by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/DAILYDAD to get 10% of your first month |  https://betterhelp.com/dailydad

Our job as parents is to help our kids “become who they are.” This is true, but our job is also to expand who they are.🎙️ Listen to Richard Reeves on the Daily Stoic Podcast | Apple Podcasts & Spotify📚 You can grab signed copies of Of Boys and Men and Richard’s other book, Dream Hoarders, at The Painted Porch.We’re excited to announce that we’ve put together a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad just in time for the holidays! Check it out at dailydad.com/leatherThis is a paid advertisement by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/DAILYDAD to get 10% of your first month |  https://betterhelp.com/dailydad✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

Walks are parenting magic. Seneca said that the mind must be given over to wandering walks, and so too must you and your kids.Aura | Get $35 off with code DAILY DAD at auraframes.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube 

Our job is not to raise kids at all. Our job is to raise adults.Every Thanksgiving, we encourage our listeners to join us in making a donation to Feeding America. Every $1 donated helps provide at least 10 meals.  We donated the first $30,000, and we’d like your help in reaching our goal of $300,000. If we hit that goal of $300,000, it would provide over 3 MILLION meals for families across the country. Just head over to dailystoic.com/feed✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube 

Every decision we make, big or small, has a ripple effect. Listen in to hear about Ryan's recent experience that reminded him of the importance of encouraging his sons when they show acts of kindness.📚 Books Mentioned:The Road by Cormac McCarthyReading For Our Lives by Maya SmartThe Wright Brothers by David McCulloughEach Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube 

If you want generous kids, you have to show them what a generous parent is. There is no better time than the holiday season to do this. Every Thanksgiving, we encourage our listeners to join us in making a donation to Feeding America. Every $1 donated helps provide at least 10 meals. It only takes a little to make a big difference. We donated the first $30,000, and we’d like your help in reaching our goal of $300,000. If we hit that goal of $300,000, it would provide over 3 MILLION meals for families across the country. Just head over to dailystoic.com/feed and together we can make a significant dent in a big problem. As Seneca reminds us, intention and attitude are central aspects in giving. Your donations show those in need that someone else cares, that someone else is by their side—just like the loved ones around your dinner table who have been by your side over the years.✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube 

Every Thanksgiving, we encourage our listeners to join us in making a donation to Feeding America. Every $1 donated helps provide at least 10 meals. It only takes a little to make a big difference. We donated the first $30,000, and we’d like your help in reaching our goal of $300,000. If we hit that goal of $300,000, it would provide over 3 MILLION meals for families across the country. Just head over to dailystoic.com/feed and together we can make a significant dent in a big problem. As Seneca reminds us, intention and attitude are central aspects in giving. Your donations show those in need that someone else cares, that someone else is by their side—just like the loved ones around your dinner table who have been by your side over the years.HUEL | Get 15% off with code DAILY DAD at Huel.com✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube 

Without awareness there is no choice. How can our kids choose the life they want, if all they’ve really seen is our life?📕 We’re excited to announce that we’ve put together a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad just in time for the holidays! Check it out at dailydad.com/leatherStoryworth | Save $10 on your first purchase at https://storyworth.com/dailydad✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube 

Dial back the criticism. Remember: you don’t need to have an opinion about everything.📕 We’re excited to announce that we’ve put together a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad just in time for the holidays! Check it out at dailydad.com/leatherStoryworth | Save $10 on your first purchase at https://storyworth.com/dailydad✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube