Quick Links
Menu
Featured
Latest Articles
Would They Want to Be Your Kid?
You’re polite to strangers. You’re encouraging to your employees. You’re forgiving to your friends. You are tolerant and…
They Are Why You Do This
What gives you the right? What’s your purpose on this planet? Why do you work so hard, why…
But What If You Saw It Differently?
Well, of course those parents can be at every field trip and attend every performance. Of course they…
No One Cares About Your Kids
While comedian Pete Holmes and his wife Valerie were expecting, he ran into Rob Riggle, another comedian who…
These Things Are Meant to Help You
Sure, you want your car to be nice. You want your walls to be clean. You want your…
This Is What You Can Save On
How quickly it wears off, eh? The lovely time with family. The reminders to be grateful. The simple…
You Can Show Them What It Means
Here at Daily Dad and Daily Stoic, we’re trying to come together to feed THREE MILLION people! Rather than…
You’ll Want This Crowded Table
It can sometimes be helpful to sit back and really think about what parental success looks like. Is…
Stop Questioning Yourself Like This
It can be easy to question your parenting. To feel like you’re not doing good enough, that you’re not nearly enough. You see what other…
You Don’t Know Until You Know
You can imagine it. You can see it happen to other people. You can read about it, hear about it, see it captured in great…
Let Them Like What They Like
Theodore Roosevelt was a big tough guy. He grew up reading about the greats of history, one biographer wrote, and decided he was going to…
It Is Solved By Walking
It’s been rough at the house. The kids are crazy. You’ve got this conflict that you keep going round and round with your spouse about….
You’re Making Them Hungry
It does work. We have to concede that. For generations, some parents have tried withholding praise, withholding pride, withholding approval so that their kids don’t…
Are You The Splendid Or The Vile?
In 1940, as Nazi bombs rained down on London, an observer noted the contrasts between the “natural splendor and human vileness.” This idea (which inspired…
Remind Yourself What Love Is
Ernest Hemingway was not a great husband or, as often as he should have been, a great father. He had four wives, at least one…
Everyone Has Something Going On
As NFL teams opened training camp for the 2022 season, there was all sorts of speculation about Tom Brady. Why had he retired and unretired?…
They’re Not Just Playing
It’s funny how twisted we seem to have gotten things over the years. “Epicurean,” for instance, means “hedonist” to most people…even though, as a philosophy,…
You’ll Never Be Proud Of This
There are very few things that are universal to parenthood, but here’s a big one: You have never once lost your temper at your kids…