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You’re an adult, so we assume you can handle this email. Imagine you’re in the middle of the…
Someone once remarked to the famed Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn, that his father hadn’t left him…
A few years ago, the Emmy-winning actor William H. Macy was asked for the best piece of advice…
The famed French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson was a pain in the ass to his teachers. He was bored…
Your daughter gets mad, so she slams the door and screams. Your son makes himself a snack and…
When you’re gone, when they go through your stuff or when they talk to your friends at your…
E.H. Harriman was as rich as they come. A railroad baron. A captain of industry. Everything his children…
Sure, it’s important that you keep up with your friends. You wouldn’t want to be one of those…
You might not think of Tom Hanks as a father, but he is one. He had four kids, two from his first marriage, Colin and…
Winter can be one of the most miserable times for dads with kids. The sun goes down early and, depending on your part of the…
One of the things you have trouble adjusting to when you first have kids is the crying. Not just because it’s loud, but because it…
Douglas MacArthur was a man of routine, most military men are. So it shouldn’t surprise us that he built a family life around routine. But…
Cato the Younger was not an easy man to get to do something. If he felt it went against his conscience or that it was…
One of the best lines from Seneca is that while we can’t choose our parents, we do have the ability to choose whose children we…
It’s a sad sight when you see a dad who has clearly stopped trying. He puts on weight. He checks out of his marriage. Maybe…
It’s hard to picture Fred Rogers as a parent. Of course, we can easily recall him as Mr. Rogers, patiently and lovingly explaining things to…
We’re always in a rush. We have to get them ready for school. We have to get them off to bed. We have to get…
The ubiquity of the word “energy” these days is probably a sign of how pervasive pseudo-science and charlatans have become. We are inundated with energy…
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