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It was a dark time. The world was falling apart. School was a distant memory. All they had…
We know our parents sacrificed for us. That’s what history is… people giving stuff up for future generations,…
They’re only going to ask you so many times: to get in the pool with them, to sit…
Yeah, it costs money to heat a house warmer than it needs to be. Yeah, rooms should be…
You want to put them to sleep, so you read them the first book off the shelf. You’re…
Are there differences between boys and girls? Of course. Anyone that tells you differently either isn’t a parent…
This didn’t used to exist, you know. Kids had it way harder before. Not just a hundred-plus years…
In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates tells the story of the god Theuth approaching the King of Egypt, hardly able…
Maybe you remember when your kids were really young—or maybe they still are really young so you know this even better—what you could do to…
Theodore Roosevelt lived an incredible life. He was an author. A naturalist. A rancher. A police chief. A cowboy. A hunter. A governor. A soldier….
If you’re not paying attention, it’s easy to slip into a habit of almost invariable negativity: Stop doing that. Don’t touch this. No, you can’t…
The emperor Hadrian never had a son so he devised a very specific succession plan. He adopted a fifty-one-year-old man named Antoninus Pius on the…
They say that the reason people have long shaken hands with their right hands was to signal that we came in peace and we’re not…
Maybe you don’t love where you live. Maybe if you had more money or a different job, you’d live elsewhere. Maybe it is too liberal…
If you haven’t watched the TV series Friday Night Lights since you’ve become a father, you should watch it again. There’s a reason that Coach…
There is so much on your plate. So much you have to worry about as a parent: keeping your kids safe; getting them to school…
You want them to listen. You want them to respect your rules. You want them to do what they’re supposed to do, the things that…
Choose a Cato, Seneca told Lucilius, “choose a master whose life, conversation, and soul-expressing face” you can hold up as an example to regulate your…
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