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Of course, you want tough kids. You want boys who are active and resilient. You want girls who…
It’s almost incomprehensible. The parents were rich. They were powerful. Their kids had access to the best tutors…
The Spartan Agesilaus was the toughest of the tough. Like all Spartans, he had been trained in the…
You tell them to be good. To be honest. To follow the law. To care about other people….
You’re a dad, so you know a lot. You’ve been alive a while. You’ve read a thing or…
As we’ve talked about before (see our other emails about this if you missed them!), F Scott Fitzgerald…
Brett Favre had a tough father. He never let his kids have it easy. He pushed them. He…
While there are certainly people out there for whom the pandemic or our political environment have brought out…
We take care of our own, we say. Family is family. Blood is thicker than water. These are noble sentiments that have encouraged beautiful sacrifice,…
There are moments when you think: I just can’t do this anymore. After countless nights without sleep when they’re little. After other nights when they’re…
It’s easy to know what a Dad should say: Do your homework. Be a good sport. Write your thank you notes. Keep your elbows off…
The pressure to do is one that rests heavy on all parents. We plan that big family vacation to Disneyland. We put everyone in the…
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…
“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 are a couple genres of gooey viral videos out there. There are the ones of soldiers returning home from deployments. There are the ones…
What are you supposed to teach your kids? Are you preparing them for the real world? These are the questions that keep dads up at…
At her sentencing hearing earlier this year, Felicity Huffman finally had to face the consequences of what she had done. She had attempted to manipulate…
Ed Stack was a great kid. He worked for the family business, Dick’s Sporting Goods, quietly and loyally. He saved up enough money that eventually…
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