The words we say to our kids don’t just disappear. They become part of how our kids understand themselves, what they believe they deserve, and what they carry into the world. In today’s episode, Ryan talks with Jon Gustin, creator of The Tired Dad, about the small comments parents make without thinking, the messages kids hear underneath them, and how to create a home where they feel safe, secure, and fully themselves.

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None of it lasts, and soon enough you will miss it.

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If you’re in a position to spend, to support, to give—well, now is the time.

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Why are you choosing to pick this battle? Why are you on them about something so insignificant?

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As parents, our job isn’t just to raise kids—it’s to raise confident, virtuous humans.

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You don’t know—nobody does—where your kids will find their thing. That thing that lights them up, that makes them think for the first time, I want to do that with my life.

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Our kids are going to love things we don’t understand. They’re going to get into costumes, music, shoes, games, and whole worlds that aren’t our thing. In today’s episode, Ryan talks about taking his kids to the Renaissance Fair, resisting the urge to judge, and why one of the best things we can do as parents is simple: let them love what they love.

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You get them all the time…and then suddenly this is all you get of them.

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