Teach Them It's Figureoutable
There’s a story that occurs constantly in the biographies of many creative and brilliant people. It goes something like this: As a kid they had a question—maybe it was about how car engines work, or w...
16 Des 20192min
Don’t Just Protect Yours
We take care of our own, we say. Family is family. Blood is thicker than water. These are noble sentiments that have encouraged beautiful sacrifice, forgiveness, and accomplishments. One problem with ...
13 Des 20192min
There Are Things Better To Just Not Think About
Emily Oster is a writer and a thinker after our own heart. Frustrated with all the bad parenting advice—most of which seems to be based on old wives’ tales and ridiculously bad data—she set out to app...
12 Des 20193min
They Don't Feel as Old as They Look
Do you remember when you were in fourth grade and you looked across the playground and saw the sixth graders? They looked so much older. So much bigger. Their lives seemed so much different than yours...
3 Des 20192min
Let ‘Em See You Work
One of the unusual side effects of our modern lives is how siloed work is for most people. “Work” is a place you drive to in the morning and come home from in the evening. It’s what you’re doing while...
3 Des 20192min
Don’t Give Them an Ego
You love your kids more than anything. You think they’re God’s gift (which they are, to you!). You want them to know how you feel about them, and you feel bad when they feel bad about themselves. Thes...
3 Des 20193min
Curb Sometimes, Spur at Others
Seneca was a father, though we don’t know much, if anything, about his son. We know he was a wonderful uncle, and that he struggled valiantly as a tutor to reign in the impulses of Nero. What kind of ...
3 Des 20192min
Who Cares What That Idiot Thinks?
There are going to be moments in fatherhood—when you’re dancing to Baby Shark to entertain your kid, or you’re way into the third book in the Twilight series for your daughter or you’re making the lam...
3 Des 20192min
