Your Job Is To Keep Them Safe
It’s in moments like these—a pandemic or a hurricane or a terrorist attack—that we fathers are thrown back into a more primal role. Yes, there are so many things we are expected to do as dads these da...
27 Mar 20202min
You Have To Help Them Discover This
Almost every talented and successful person can remember their introduction to whatever it was that became their thing. In Mastery, Robert Greene explores countless examples of this beautiful process ...
26 Mar 20202min
Nobody Wins in a War of Attrition
Because you’re in charge, because you’re so much bigger and stronger and smarter, it’s easy to get trapped into a battle of wills with your kids. Don’t do that or else! Because I said so. Oh, you thin...
25 Mar 20202min
If They Don’t Get It From You, Where Will They?
We know that our kids want to feel good, feel safe, feel loved. We know they want to feel that someone is proud of them, that they’re talented, that they’re worth something. We also know that they’ll ...
24 Mar 20202min
It Is Always Scary To Do This
There has never been a father—a good one anyway—that did not at least occasionally look at what was happening around them and question the world they were bringing up their kids in. This is worth reme...
23 Mar 20202min
You’ll Want Them To Come To You With Problems
When your kids mess up, what’s your reaction? Do you freak out? Or are you calm? Do you make the situation better...or worse? Can you actually listen? Or are you halfway through a solution before they...
20 Mar 20202min
What Are They Learning From How You Carry Yourself
From his dad, Bruce Springsteen learned about shame, about broken pride, and struggling with demons that you can’t quite conquer. It’s an all too common story, unfortunately. The lack of a strong role...
19 Mar 20202min
They Feel Bad Enough Already
It happened again. Your kid screwed up. They did something stupid—from drawing on the walls to getting caught drinking. They hurt someone or they lied. They failed a test or broke something important....
18 Mar 20202min
