Brass Check Spring breathes freshness and renewal into our world with warmer air, sun-filled days, and bursts of new foliage and colors. And after a long winter, we can’t wait to rush outside and enjoy it all. But in our eagerness, in all those spring activities—from baseball games to camping trips—we may miss the gentle reminder inherent…
We’ve all felt the judging eyes. We’ve felt the embarrassment. We’ve asked in whispers or over text, “Is it ok?” “Do they mind?” “Are you sure?” We’ve held our breath, crossed our fingers, been desperately anxious, hoping that our kids wouldn’t cry or misbehave or cause problems. But you know what? Screw them. If you want…
It must be bewildering to be a kid. The world is a confusing and illogical place…and so little of it is explained to them at first. And their brains are still developing, to boot. Imagine what things would feel like if you didn’t have object permanence (and kids don’t until they’re around a year old)!…
It’s just soccer practice. It’s just math class. It’s just whatever. They can miss a day, ok? You are not going to raise a lazy, entitled failure because you let them take a mental health day, because you gave them an extra day to recover, because you extended the family trip or you took them…
It’s kind of crazy how crazy things are right now. All that you have going on. All the stress that raising a family entails. The places you have to get to, the appointments you have to make, the illnesses you have to treat, the problems you have to solve. One thing after another, everything all…
It’s a video game. It’s a YouTuber who makes unwatchable videos about video games. It’s drama at school. It’s an argument about politics you don’t agree with. It’s a TikTok dance their friends are doing. It’s a new boy band that sounds awful. But you know what it also is? It’s interest. Your kids are interested in…
You might think that every little boy would want to be king, but Marcus Aurelius didn’t. That’s the opening line in our fable The Boy Who Would Be King (we’re celebrating its fifth anniversary this month—you can get your signed copy here!), and it’s true. Marcus Aurelius supposedly wept when he found out he would be emperor…because he…
A 10-year-old Jim Lawson was walking down the street when, as he passed a car, a small child looked at him and called him the n-word. Stunned by the hate and the meanness of it, Lawson reached into the car and slapped the boy in the face. When his mother found out about this, she…
Sometimes it feels like it, sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes it feels like our lives are moving very quickly, but often in the day-to-dayness, it doesn’t. We are going from appointment to appointment, practice to practice, living from school break to school break, moving towards each milestone and grade level and accomplishment. In Meditations (our favorite edition here),…
It doesn’t matter that you’re on the other side of the world. It doesn’t matter that you’re in the middle of some crazy period at work. It doesn’t matter that you don’t have custody this week. It doesn’t matter that your schedule has you working opposite hours from your family. Just because you’re not physically…
We’re going to tackle all the big themes of our time and of all time: Grit. Resilience. Curiosity. Compassion. Character. Unconditional love. Finding purpose. Dealing with stress. Masculinity. Female empowerment. Loss. Stillness. Truthfulness. Initiative. Creativity. Passion. Family. Fun.
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