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These Are Your Priorities
It’s kind of crazy if you think about it. That we hand off the supervision and the teaching…
What They’ll Remember Is This
They don’t understand the context. They’ll forget that you apologized right after. They can’t possibly conceive the stress…
They Can’t Help It
It’s a remarkable historical what-if. Abraham Lincoln was traveling east to assume the presidency at a pivotal moment….
Why Go Through The Whole Routine?
It’s a timeless childhood memory: a family road trip, kids gazing out the window, spotting something exciting—a quirky…
Help Them Find Whose Children They Are
Sometimes our kids are just like us. They look like us. They talk like us. They like the…
You’re The Weird One
The music they like. The radical politics. The unrealistic expectations about money and career. Their lifestyle choices. The…
Challenge Them Like This
Of course, you want tough kids. You want boys who are active and resilient. You want girls who…
This Part Is Your Fault
It’s the thing that keeps parents up at night: What if their kid turns out bad? Not like,…
What Would You Give Then?
They’re noisy. They’re messy. They do not listen. You love them, of course, but secretly you sometimes look forward to it all being over. When…
They Need You (And You Need Them)
There’s so much we are responsible for as parents—their welfare, their grades, getting them to and from where they need to go. We have to…
Which Would You Rather Be?
Abraham Lincoln could not seem to please his father. Even though his son was brilliant and clearly cut out for something other than subsistence farming,…
Why Does Anyone Care?
It’s mind blowing when you read the stories about it. The father who doesn’t fully accept their child because they’re illegitimate (Da Vinci’s father did…
Show Them This Strength
Asking for help is hard. It feels like weakness. It involves vulnerability. It means admitting that we don’t know something, that we’ve failed, or that…
Don’t Cut It Short (If You Don’t Have To)
He was busy. There was work waiting. They had just spent some wonderful family time together, riding bicycles, picking flowers, just having fun in the…
Don’t Let Them Tell You This
In the 1960s, the young poet Diane di Prima was at one of those legendary Beat parties that movies are made of. Everyone was there….
What’s In Your Greatest Hits?
Imagine there was some way to record and analyze all your interactions with your kids. Imagine if they ran all the words you said, the…
This Is How To Explain Things
Look, the world is complicated. There is so much for your kids to understand, so much for you to explain, so much to teach them….
It’s Brave Of Them
Maybe your kid is a little weird. Maybe they do stuff that you don’t get. Maybe they do stuff that makes other people, other kids,…