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You Don’t Know Until You Know Jun 19, 2025

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Until it happens to you, you don't really know. You don't know how it completely rewires you, how it rearranges your priorities, how it fills a space inside you that you didn't even know was empty.

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This Is The Key To Good Parenting Jun 18, 2025

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They can see you on the phone…again. They can see you working…still.

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This Is What The Best Do Jun 17, 2025

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Just as Socrates welcomed young minds and gave them space to wonder, we too should create an environment where our kids feel comfortable bringing their deepest questions and uncertainties.

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📚 Book Mentioned: The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault

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You Are Not Enough People Jun 16, 2025

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How did parents in the past do it? They did it together. They did it as a village.

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BONUS | You're Not Meant To Do It Alone Jun 14, 2025

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Just because parenting is this experience we all share, it doesn't mean that the experience of being a parent is the same. Because what parenting does is it humbles you.

We discover a world we don't control, one that is too much for any one person to do on their own. This isn't something that you can just do by yourself, and that's why we've been working hard on what we're trying to create here at Daily Dad, like a community, a place for parents to come together and share real world parenting stories and hard one wisdom, a community for parents who want to commit to this daily practice.

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The Father’s Day Message You Didn’t Know You Needed | General McChrystal Jun 14, 2025

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In today's episode, General Stanley McChrystal sits down with Ryan for a special Father’s Day reminder that you won’t want to miss. General McChrystal shares personal stories from his own parenting journey, lessons that changed his perspective as a father, and what he admires most about his son.

General Stanley McChrystal is a retired U.S. Army general best known for leading Joint Special Operations Command in the mid-2000s. In 2011, he founded the McChrystal Group, a leadership consultancy that helps senior executives navigate complex change and build stronger teams. His new book, On Character, offers a blueprint for living with purpose and integrity—challenging us to examine not just what we do, but who we become in the process.

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On Character by General McChrystal

Of Boys and Men by Richard Reeves

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What’s It To You? Jun 13, 2025

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They’re different. They are like you in so many ways but they are also so, so, different. What is it to you anyway?

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These Are The Only Labels That Matter Jun 12, 2025

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It doesn’t matter what gender your kids are, you have to help them raise above stereotypes, backlash and culture war fights.

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