Sometimes the most important thing a parent can do is sit still and say nothing.
Tag: fatherhood
How Do You Talk to Your Kids About Death?
There’s no right or wrong way. Just better and worse ways to have an already difficult conversation.
Unfinished Business
A week of handling unfinished business.
What’s the Distance Between My Actions and My Words?
A high school check-in, six months of driving lessons, and the gap between what I say and what I actually do.
The Doctor Will See You Now.
Why I’m still learning to be comfortable at the doctor’s office.
The good old days.
I’m living the dream, and sometimes I have to remind myself that these are the good old days, even if they don’t always feel like it.
What Will They Ask Me One Day?
Why I want the girls to copy my favorite morning routine one day.
Stepping up to fatherhood
What a cashier reminded me about fatherhood, expectations, and the bar we set.
A new summer tradition: compromise.
Nobody gets their way all of the time.
Everything is mulch.
A story about mulch, momentum, and getting out of your own way.
