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It’s quite wonderful being a kid, isn’t it? You see it now that you have them, how oblivious…
You want them to be safe—that’s understandable. You are busy and tired from work and life—that’s perfectly reasonable….
You read an old book and it’s pretty common: Dads didn’t used to be present for the birth…
You work hard for your family. You know how you sweated for each dollar, which can make it…
If you haven’t read Emily Oster’s work, then your wife probably has. She’s a wonderful, brilliant economist (who…
You check the ingredients in their food to make sure they are ingesting needless chemicals. You make sure…
It was one of those nights. The boys would not go to sleep. They had that contagious energy…
A lot can go wrong. You and your spouse could split up. You could get cancer and die…
It’s interesting to think about the steady decline in expectations for kids when it comes to reading. Not long ago, kids were taught Latin and…
Rules and regulations are important. A child needs to learn what behaviors are and aren’t acceptable. They need structure and guidance. They need to learn…
One of the things Napoleon advised his generals against was “forming a picture” of the battle. What he meant was that your preconceived notions, your…
When you read parenting books, it’s hard not to get the distinct sense that there is a right way to parent. That being a dad…
A couple weeks ago, we talked about the sobering exercise of trying to observe other people getting upset or losing their temper at their kids….
Right now, you’re thinking about what all the other parents are doing. What schools they’re getting their kids into. What the best strollers are. You’re…
As we’ve written about before, Ted Williams was not a good father. He was a great baseball player who totally neglected the responsibilities of being…
We’ve talked before about David Epstein’s wonderful book Range, which advises against premature specialization—in athletes, in kids, in intellectual development. It tends to be better,…
Kids are crazy, right? When they’re hungry, they are rude and difficult to manage. They are demanding and seem incapable, most of the time, of…
The great physicist Richard Feynman had a father who instilled his brilliant son with an interesting perspective about the world. Sitting down, he would lay…
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