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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…
There is so much you want to teach them. When they’re little. When they’re teenagers. When they are…
There is a great story about a young Spartan woman, Gorgo, who would one day become queen. Despite…
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…
At the core of most of the conflict between parents and children—and, of course, spouses—is one thing: judgment. We have opinions and these opinions are…
Spend any time around parents and inevitably the quality of the neighborhood schools comes up. One mom complains about Common Core. One dad laments the…
If you haven’t read George Packer’s fascinating and terrifying essay on what the culture war has done to education in some circles, you should read…
Do you remember hating the vegetables that your parents tried to serve you growing up? Broccoli. Green beans. Brussels sprouts. Cauliflower. You hated them and…
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