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It’s not easy to do when they’re hitting or biting or waking up ten times a night. When…
In the beautiful children’s book, Each Kindness, Jacqueline Woodson tells the story of a young girl named Chloe…
Look, there’s just no way your kids can understand. It’s impossible for a person that young, that free…
Certainly, someone would have needed him for something. His wife, one of his thirteen kids, a courtier, the…
Your kids can drive you nuts. They’re crazy. They’re struggling. They can be ungrateful. They can test and…
You know that your kids are monsters when they’re tired. You know they don’t make good decisions when…
All kids have had a hard time this last year. Of course, for many less privileged children the…
Maybe you do it because you’re in a hurry. Maybe you do it because you hate to see…
What kinds of books do dads like? Well, according to the displays at Barnes & Noble and Costco, it’s almost exclusively books about war and…
Sometimes, when parents fall down on the job, it falls to someone else to do the job. The primary and most important influence on Queen…
In August 1933, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a letter to his young daughter Frances who was away at camp. It’s a beautiful, personal letter from…
There are a few versions of history you can tell your kids. You can tell them the propaganda version—the fables, the self-serving myths, the lies…
One thing you quickly learn about being a parent is that your opinions, your limitations are irrelevant. Oh, you’re exhausted and need to sleep? Well,…
There is a reason that this metaphor keeps popping up. Cormac McCarthy talked about “carrying the fire” in his haunting novel The Road, which he…
We’ve come to call them “Karens”, but the truth is that being an entitled, obnoxious ass transcends gender. It has nothing to do with the…
We tell our kids a lot of things. We tell them that we love them. That we’ll support them no matter what. That they can…
Especially in the early days, it can seem like being a dad is to assume the role of perpetual third wheel. You can’t nurse. You…
Maybe you have to travel a lot for work. Maybe you take an occasional vacation. Or you’re on the road a lot with one of…
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