These Are Three Wonderful Words
"Before you had kids, 'I love you' was that powerful three word phrase. You said it to your future wife or your future husband and you loved hearing it. But now there is another phrase even more beaut...
30 Huhti 20202min
You Have to Listen
"...As parents, we tend to do a lot of talking. There are all the things we tell our kids. The things we remind them about. The lessons we try to teach them. The books we read to them. But it’s worth ...
29 Huhti 20202min
Now Is The Time For Wisdom
"It doesn’t matter how old you are or how old your kids are. You have more experience than them. In some cases, that’s a couple decades. In other cases, it’s many decades. But whatever the age differe...
28 Huhti 20202min
Lift Them Up, Don’t Hold Them Back
"Family is wonderful. None of us would be here, the writer Aaron Thier once put it, if people hadn’t taken care of us when we were small. Somebody birthed us, raised us, drove us to school, kept us sa...
27 Huhti 20202min
This Is the Main Lesson
"There is so much we want to teach our kids—so much that fathers are expected to teach their kids. How to ride a bike. How to swim. How to throw a punch. How to tie a tie. How to read. How to get up t...
24 Huhti 20202min
Character Is Fate. Never Forget That.
"These are challenging, uncertain times, no question. What’s at the root of it? How did we get here? And what can fathers do about it?The answer comes to us, as it often does, from an ancient prescrip...
23 Huhti 20202min
How Will You Use This Time?
"Right now, most of us are stuck with what you might call dead time. We’re trapped indoors. We’re working from home… or not at all. Kids are out of school, and who knows when it will be back in. We’re...
22 Huhti 20202min
You Have To Treat Them The Same
"Does your dog’s gender matter to you? Like have you ever once thought about whether they were capable of this task or that task because of their sex? Has your understanding of their gender changed ho...
21 Huhti 20202min
