The Importance of Being a Parent

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Becoming a parent, not just being one, it's a choice. It produces a change. I don't think I changed the day my wife had our son. And it wasn't until even when we had two kids that I feel like I fully became the parent that I wanted to be. The Daily Dad is now available for pre-order at DailyDadBook.com. If you've gotten anything out of the Daily Dad podcast over the years, anything out of my writing, it would mean so much if you could support me on this.

Everyone says that becoming a parent changes you. The responsibility. The stress. The unconditional love. The cuteness. This is big stuff.

But as the comedian Tom Segura observes in one of his great Netflix specials, it’s wrong to say that it changes people–that’s just not the right language. It’s that having kids should change you. If it doesn’t he says, if you’re still the same person? If you have the same routines, the same behaviors, the same priorities afterwards? That’s a big problem! You’re doing something wrong!

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