Something about napping next to your kids, the feeling of peace and contentment that just gives you the deepest and restful sleep.
My mistake was trying to engineer parenthood.
You canāt.
You see how happy school kids are in America? Now go to Asia and see how miserable they look there.
Their hardcore academic life doesnāt give them the worldās best economy.
So Iāve stopped stressing about my kids.
I read the Bible and pray with my kids every night. Thatās been the main thing. I impress on my kids to love God and follow His commandments.
Then I entrust them to their Creator for a life of integrity, joy and provision for their needs.
Itās been hard to find! I was able to get some 10oz bottles on Amazon in the past, but that supply is drying up as well.
Kinders sells it on Amazon but itās a smaller bottle so itās not cheap
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I have started to use a deck of cards to train my 2nd grader to get faster with multiplication.
It is more fun than dry worksheets. The deck of cards introduces the required random combinations and we go up to 13 instead of 12 (Jack 11, Queen 12, King 13).
We split the deck in half, and we each flip two cards from our deck and multiply the numbers as quickly as possible.
When weāre good at multiplying two cards, I can always extend the game to multiply three cards.
When weāre done, we can use the same cards to play blackjack or deuces, I think thereās a psychological effect here of associating math with fun.
Did a 5th grade Math Olympiad test for fun and one of the problems required fluidity with systems of equations that I developed from grinding engineering problem sets sophomore year of college.
I donāt know how to reconcile these two data points.
Fatherhood has helped me understand the God of the Bible more.
My daughter complains to me that her friends at school have smart watches but she doesnāt.
And one of her friends has $80 while she only has $27.
My daughter is in her wilderness stage - she needs to go through trials like Joseph, Moses, David, Jesus all had to.
If she can hone her character under trials, she will be getting riches and abundance in inheritance from me she cannot even fathom right now.
So to with our personal sanctification and obedience, and our Heavenly Father.
My 7 year old daughter has become a walking joke machine. A happy upside feature of this biological LLM.
What did the cloud wear under himself to school? Thunder wear!
What is a scarecrowās favorite fruit? Straw berries
They donāt teach deal making in schools. But thatās almost the key thing to teach upper echelons of success.
X is the news and what used to be the ānewsā should now be called the āolds.ā
On X you can see trends develop and find it on the WSJ 2 years later.
I have realized you cannot trust people who use phrases like āstudies show.ā
People like that refuse to think through first principles.
When my son sits too close the stairs with this back to the stairs, and he ignores me when I tell him to move away from the stairsā¦
I give him a gentle bump
And he moves away from the stairs immediately
Watch this dad ignore his kid's splash for 5 extra seconds... and teach a lesson Gen Z desperately needs.
(Spoiler: It's brutal, beautiful parenting gold.)
You are about to witness is this video is the entire crisis of this generation in one small moment.
A father tells his son again and againā¦ āDonāt play near the edge.ā
Clear instruction.
Clear warning.
Clear boundary.
But the boy, swollen with feelings and convinced heās invincible, ignores everythingā¦ and the inevitable happens.
DADDDDDD!
And then comes the moment every parent understandsā¦
Do you snatch the child out immediatelyā¦ or do you let those extra five seconds burn the lesson into his soul?
Objectivelyā¦ the father did the right thing.
The boy had a life vest.
He was safeā¦ but shocked.
And shock teaches faster than lectures.
This is whatās missing in Americaās youth today.
No consequences.
No boundaries.
No fathers delaying rescue long enough for wisdom to take root.
So you get emotional children in grown bodiesā¦ outraged by correction, confused by responsibility, and hostile to authority because they never felt the sting of their own choices.
Those extra five seconds were not neglectā¦ they were instruction.
Fatherly instruct.
That father taught the boy in one moment what TikTok, schools, and soft parenting destroy in a lifetime.
Actions have consequences.
Disobedience has a cost.
And ignoring the voice of the one who loves you the most leads to a fall.
Thatās why our youth lack emotional intelligence today.
They never had to sit in the water long enough to feel it.
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I was in my late 30s rising through the ranks of my company when I realized the higher up you go, the less people know what theyāre doing.
Everyone is trying to figure it out.
By definition doing innovative things means you canāt follow an existing path, youāre making new paths.
It made me realize that the best way to educate my kids is to give them the first principles to reason the world by and then give them the courage get out there and figure things out.