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Why Taking a Pause To Reflect Is Good For Our Kids

Let’s enjoy good moments. It’s not something I do well. At least not for myself. I’m a great enjoyer of the wins, big and small, of my wife…

Doug Emhoff’s speech at the Democratic National Convention wasn’t just another way to show his wife Kamala Harris as a three-dimensional…

How to vacation while working and work on a vacation – I’ve been thinking about this for the past month since interviewing a fascinating…

Every business trip has downtime, which few Lead Dads or Working Moms have in their day-to-day life. So my advice: don’t squander it! I…

I slept on the couch on Saturday night. No marital spat – I was playing golf super early on Sunday, and I didn’t want to wake my wife up…

What’s the one thing you’d want if you got to go away for a few days with just your spouse? This is something my wife and I agreed on…

Contrary to what this photo might evoke, this is not a late April Fools’ joke. It’s a call for a different model to inspire fathers to…

This is a story about why we should be mentors – that begins with a pizza run. In the car, just the two of us, my middle daughter said: “I…

Priorities shift. When I was in my 20s, my birthday was my favorite holiday. I’d take the day off and celebrate, well, me. As my kids were…

This is our second Thanksgiving spent at an inn in northeast Florida, and there are some lessons in it for adapting to change more broadly…

“Congratulations on your retirement.” Two years later this comment still sticks with me. When I wrote a final column about why I was…

Ten years ago today, I became a Lead Dad. It wasn’t a role I anticipated taking on, but it came at a moment of urgency for my family. On…