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Especially in the early days, it can seem like being a dad is to assume the role of…
Maybe you have to travel a lot for work. Maybe you take an occasional vacation. Or you’re on…
How do you tell your kids how you feel? How do you say what needs to be said?…
Do you remember the best piece of advice you got from your dad? Are there sayings from childhood…
In 1952, Margaret Thatcher’s father was driven out of office when a rival political party won a majority…
It’s a touching scene. The father in The Road is giving the last of the hot chocolate they…
In the spring of 1921, a young ballplayer named Louis Gehrig had a tryout for the great John…
You have things you want to do in this life. Maybe you want to write a book or…
If you have a good marriage, everything else seems perfect. But if your marriage is struggling, then it doesn’t really matter what else is good;…
Ed Stack was a great kid. He worked for the family business, Dick’s Sporting Goods, quietly and loyally. He saved up enough money that eventually…
At her sentencing hearing earlier this year, Felicity Huffman finally had to face the consequences of what she had done. She had attempted to manipulate…
What are you supposed to teach your kids? Are you preparing them for the real world? These are the questions that keep dads up at…
There are a couple genres of gooey viral videos out there. There are the ones of soldiers returning home from deployments. There are the ones…
“There is nothing more important than an example,” Leo Tolstoy writes in his brilliant page-a-day book, A Calendar of Wisdom. An example, he says, leads…
There’s a story attributed to the baseball player Harmon Killebrew about a time he was playing in the front yard with his father and his…
You drive around mindlessly for an hour in the middle of the day, every day, because it’s the only way your son will nap. You’ll…
That the children of successful fathers turn out spoiled and lazy is a cliche that has proven itself true through time more often than any…
The man who believes they are indispensable is always always wrong, William Manchester once wrote. It’s a fact that runs counter to the sense of…
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