7 Activities every man must do with his wife:

"He doesn't listen to me" is almost always a volume problem in the wrong direction. Kids tune out noise. They lock in on quiet. Drop your voice instead of raising it and watch what happens to the room.

You two used to be the loudest people at somebody's table. You were funny together. That hasn't gone anywhere. It's just been outvoted by small people for a few years.

Your kid is going to pick up one hobby from you and you don't get to choose which. Might be fishing. Might be how you load the dishwasher. Might be how you swear at the lawnmower. What did you accidentally pass down?

Signs the week is going well: 1. You know what's for dinner on Thursday.

I found a shoebox of my mother's grocery lists after she passed. Nothing on them but milk, bread, the usual. I cried over a grocery list. It wasn't the list. It was her handwriting, and the fact that she fed us on the boring days too.

Hand her the remote. She hasn't picked in a month.

Raising a kid who tells the truth: - The confession gets a calmer response than the discovery - You never ask a question you know the answer to - You don't retell their confession to other adults - You separate what they did from who they are Honesty is a habit you make safe.

She's been running the house on four hours of sleep and nobody's mentioned it. Mention it. Not as a problem to fix, just as a thing you noticed.