Matt Damon gave “beautiful” parenting advice to fellow dad Jason Kelce during this week’s episode of the “New Heights” podcast, leaving at least one listener crying on the way to work.

The actor was promoting his upcoming movie “The Rip” and shared behind-the-scenes information about filming next year’s “The Odyssey,” but seemed to leave the biggest impression on listeners as he reflected on his children’s growth while chatting with the former Philadelphia Eagle and his superstar brother and co-host, Travis Kelce.

Damon has three daughters with his wife, Luciana Barroso: Isabella, Gia and Stella. The “Good Will Hunting” star also helped raise her stepdaughter, Alexia, whom Barroso had from a previous relationship before marrying Damon in 2005.

Damon left a mark on “New Heights” fans after saying he still sees “his baby face” when he looks at his kids, and recalled receiving some much-appreciated advice from “an old friend” when Gia was still a little girl: “Don’t blink. Don’t blink.”

“And that shit is real,” Damon said. “My daughter broke her collarbone and this morning she was getting ready to go to school; she’s 17. She asked me to brush her hair. So I brushed her hair, and man, it was a moment. I haven’t brushed her hair for, I don’t know, eight, nine years?”

He then addressed Jason Kelce directly, whose four daughters with Kylie Kelce are still quite young: Wyatt, 6; Elliott, 4; Bennett, 2; and Finnley, 9 months.

“Now you’re at that stage where you’ve got them ready, they’re lined up!” Damon told the father. “I don’t remember when I last brushed his hair. It just happened and life went on.”

Damon said the aging changes were “so incremental” that he only realized how much time had passed when he “ran the brush” through Gia’s hair. He then admitted, “He bent me, man,” before giving some old advice: “So don’t blink.”

Matt Damon's wife and youngest daughters in 2023 at the premiere of his film in Los Angeles
Matt Damon’s wife and youngest daughters in 2023 at the Los Angeles premiere of his film “Air.”

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Jason Kelce took those words to heart and said, “I like that.”

While that response was pretty stoic, Damon’s thoughtful anecdote reduced some podcast listeners to mush. As their candid reactions on social media suggested, they too seem to have discovered that parenting moves too quickly.

“Matt Damon made me cry with this one, it goes too fast,” wrote one user on

Another user confessed: “I’m not crying. You’re crying.”