When you lose your temper. When you mess up. When you aren’t present. When you forget something important. When you can’t be two places at once. When you get burned out. When you can’t give your kids what they need.
At the root of it, it’s always the same thing. All these situations have one thing in common.
In the middle of a disagreement with his wife, the author Kurt Vonnegut—who had always envied her large, close-knit family—realized that she (and he) were expecting something impossible from each other. “When a couple has an argument,” he said, “they may think it’s about money or power or sex, or how to raise the kids, or whatever. What they’re really saying to each other, though, without realizing it, is this: ‘You are not enough people!’”
How did parents in the past do it? They did it together. They did it as an extended family. They did it as a village. They didn’t wall themselves off from each other like we did. They didn’t expect one or two people to do the job of dozens of people.
For many reasons it’s probably for the best that most of us don’t live in villages anymore. But there are consequences to this development—one that every modern parent feels acutely on a daily basis. Even more so if you’re one of those people who moved away from home for a job, a partner, or have some kind of digital or hybrid profession. We are fortunate to have such opportunity and freedom. But this has not been without its costs or stresses.
We are not meant to be parents alone. We are not enough people to possibly handle this alone.
That’s why Daily Dad wanted to create a society for parents to come together and rediscover that level of support network. A community where we could share the wins and the hard days. Swap book recommendations and hard-won wisdom. And remind each other to slow down and actually be with our kids.
It’s something we’re calling The Daily Dad Society.
The Daily Dad Society is for people like you. It’s people like us. We’re all choosing to show up and do this together (and we just kicked it off, and the more the merrier).
We’re about showing up and doing your best to improve day by day, with the support and structure you not only need but deserve.
It takes a village raising kids. And with The Daily Dad Society, we’re trying to create a new kind of village, one that fits within your busy schedule as a parent and exists outside any toxic social media environment.
But we need your help to build this community into something special.
If you join from now until June 30, you will be an official “Founding Member” of The Daily Dad Society—with a special gift to show that (learn more about that here).
Parenting is hard. In fact, it’s the hardest thing you’ll ever do. But it’s also the most important.
That doesn’t mean you have to do it alone. Let’s do it together—deliberately, and with purpose.
Head to dailydad.com/society to become a founding member of The Daily Dad Society today!
