Our premium leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad is officially available to order. Check out a sneak peak of the updated July illustration below, and head here to get yours!
Sometimes it can feel like you’re all alone as a parent.
Like you’re the only parent struggling to balance work, life, and family (and like you’re always falling short in at least one of those categories, if not multiple).
Like you’re the only one raising absolute hellions, who can’t help but misbehave and cause a ruckus wherever they go (and always at the worst times, too).
Like your family is the only one in the neighborhood or at school full of dysfunction and chaos (those picture-perfect influencer families on social media don’t help either!).
But this is wrong. One of the oldest pieces of evidence of humans in America is the footprints of a parent, probably a mother, walking in what is now White Sands National Park, carrying and then setting down, carrying and then setting down, a young child. Near Cairo in Egypt, archaeologists have discovered a papyrus letter written from a son to his father, complaining that his father didn’t bring him along to Alexandria. “If you don’t send for me,” he writes, full of pubescent scorn, “I shan’t eat, I shan’t drink. There!” There’s a story about Lincoln, seen carrying his young son through town and neighbor telling him that the boy was too big for that. “Oh, don’t you think his lil’ feet get too tired?” Lincoln said. And there were the glances and the judgment at the White House from people who thought his kids made too much noise and made too much of a mess, frustration from cabinet members when the boys burst in during meetings.
Any of this sound familiar? Of course it does! We tell these kinds of stories in The Daily Dad (new leatherbound edition below!) because if there is one experience that links us all as humans in an unbroken chain across time and space, it’s parenting. Kids have always been little rascals and we parents have always been doing our best to keep up. Raising a family has always been a wild, chaotic daily existence—one filled with joy and difficulty, love and labor—that has humbled and inspired every parent.
And that’s why you can find practical parenting advice from every philosophical and religious tradition. Plato, Confucius, and the Stoics have lessons for raising kids, as do the lives of Lincoln, Queen Elizabeth II, Douglas MacArthur. Why wouldn’t we learn from these past examples? Don’t parents, no matter where we are on our journey, need all that help we can get?
That was the idea in putting together The Daily Dad—to give parents a way to access this advice one piece at a time, one day at a time. And now we’re excited to announce that we’ve put together a special leatherbound edition of the book just in time for the holidays.
Like the wisdom inside, the book is designed to stand the test of time.
After hearing from countless readers who crack open their hardcopies every day, we decided to create a version with a level of quality not possible on mass-produced books.
This limited edition of the book is bound in genuine and luxurious leather with a new gold foil logo depicting a father holding a child’s hand on the cover. It’s also printed on premium Munken cream paper, which is one of the top papers available for books.
There’s all-new illustrations for each section of the book to make the most important concepts more memorable and a sewn red ribbon to mark that nugget of wisdom you want to share with a friend or partner.
This special edition of the Daily Dad comes protected and beautifully displayed in a custom-designed box, with unique foil logos and a quote from Ryan, making it perfect for both gifting and collecting.
Head here to grab yours today!
