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Teach Them How to Devour Like This
Some parents want their kids to know how to read. We want more than that. We want our…
Don’t Tie Down Your Eagle
Florence Nightingale was a precocious child. As a toddler, she always went her own way. Then, unlike many…
Keep Your Head Up and Take Another Swing
No person has a perfect track record. Certainly, no parent does. We all mess up. We all fall…
Make Your Name Mean Something
When Cato’s son Marcus fell at the second battle of Philippi in 42 BCE, his final act was…
It’s Not Over for You
The writer Susan Straight was helping her mother move, when she found an old painting thrown in the…
Don’t Be Mad at Good People
You’re a patient person. You don’t get road rage. You don’t snap at your employees. You accept apologies…
Just Be a Fan. Just Be a Fan.
Maybe your kid is into weird stuff. Maybe their heavy metal band sucks—or their talents as a white…
The Struggle With Struggle
We all know that what we went through in life is what made us who we are. The…
What Will You Regret?
On their deathbeds, fathers think about a lot of things. They think about the world they’re leaving to their sons and daughters. They think about…
What You’re Doing Is Important
These are strange times to be a father. Fathers have never been expected to do more—around the house, in their children’s lives. This is wonderful….
You Have One Job Today
Your job today as a father is to do one thing. It’s to read this poem, which dates back to 1895, and then to think…
Tell Them of Cincinnatus
Do you know the story of Cincinnatus? He was a Roman general who had retired to his farm until he was called to rescue his…
Here’s The Only Silver Lining
People are freaked out. Events are cancelled. Schools have been let out. You’re working from home, or, at least, not going out like you used…
Imagine What This Is Like For A Kid
Seeing your own parents now, as an adult, is stressful. There’s a great Ram Dass line that the comedian Pete Holmes has used in relation…
Nobody Wins in a War of Attrition
Because you’re in charge, because you’re so much bigger and stronger and smarter, it’s easy to get trapped into a battle of wills with your…
You Have To Help Them Discover This
Almost every talented and successful person can remember their introduction to whatever it was that became their thing. In Mastery, Robert Greene explores countless examples…
Your Job Is To Keep Them Safe
It’s in moments like these—a pandemic or a hurricane or a terrorist attack—that we fathers are thrown back into a more primal role. Yes, there…
It Is Always Scary To Do This
There has never been a father—a good one anyway—that did not at least occasionally look at what was happening around them and question the world…