"How to Raise a Conservative Daughter" by Michelle Easton
Nebraska Conservative Parents Bookclub Podcast
Release Date: 07/17/2025
"The Anxious Generation" by Jonathan Haidt
Nebraska Conservative Parents Bookclub Podcast
Joe's wife joins as this week's guest to talk about Jonathan Haidt's latest book, "The Anxious Generation". What are phone-based childhoods doing to our kids, and how can we better encourage our kids to play outside with friends like we once did?
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"How to Raise a Conservative Daughter" by Michelle Easton
Nebraska Conservative Parents Bookclub Podcast
How do you raise a young woman with strong values in a culture that often challenges them? In this episode, two girl-dads, Wade and I discuss How to Raise a Conservative Daughter by Michelle Easton, a book aimed at helping parents instill character, confidence, and conviction in their daughters. We reflect on what the book gets right—and where it misses opportunities—especially when it comes to the role of dads in shaping a daughter’s political and moral worldview. We cover everything from family structure, work ethic, and religious upbringing to abortion, American exceptionalism, and...
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"Abolition of Man" by C.S. Lewis
Nebraska Conservative Parents Bookclub Podcast
In this episode, we dive into C.S. Lewis’s prophetic book The Abolition of Man with a blend of deep thought and lighthearted commentary. Joined by my brother-in-law Michael, we explore Lewis’s concept of “men without chests,” the importance of virtue over values, and how the decline of objective morality shapes modern society. Along the way, we unpack subjectivism, the role of education, the rise of transhumanism, and what Lewis might say about drag queen story hour, Mr. Beast giveaways, and the Shopping Cart Theory. It’s part book club, part cultural diagnosis — and surprisingly...
info_outlineHow do you raise a young woman with strong values in a culture that often challenges them? In this episode, two girl-dads, Wade and I discuss How to Raise a Conservative Daughter by Michelle Easton, a book aimed at helping parents instill character, confidence, and conviction in their daughters. We reflect on what the book gets right—and where it misses opportunities—especially when it comes to the role of dads in shaping a daughter’s political and moral worldview.
We cover everything from family structure, work ethic, and religious upbringing to abortion, American exceptionalism, and how to raise daughters who are both capable and grounded. Expect candid stories from our own upbringing, reflections on parenting young kids today, and thoughts on what it means to raise daughters who are truly independent—not because the culture says they don’t need a man, but because they bring strength, values, and purpose to whatever path they choose. The values are "more caught than taught".
This is an episode for parents who want to be intentional, raise strong girls, and push back against the modern culture of victimhood with a message of gratitude, service, and moral clarity.