Winter: A Time for Noble Joy

Winter: A Time for Noble Joy

What does it take to form virtue—or to ‘educate’ in the most important sense? This perennial question concerns all of us, at all stages of life. Aristotle offers a simple but surprising principle that should focus us on what we’re doing at home in these winter days....
What Keeps a Father Up at Night

What Keeps a Father Up at Night

Sleep deprivation is recognized as a form of torture, with good reason. Being kept up at night or inability to sleep is often a serious suffering. Yet being kept up, sometimes in the form of choosing to stay up, is a part of parenting. The arrival of a newborn in a...
A Divine Plan for Changing Diapers

A Divine Plan for Changing Diapers

There is always a reason for the way things are, even when this is not apparent. An easily missed aspect of the natural order of household life offers a standout example of this truth. In short, the things we must do to address our bodily needs offer a perfect context...
Manners: A Lost Key in Raising Children

Manners: A Lost Key in Raising Children

Although the lack of manners today is generally noted with disapproval, we often do not think of manners as a central feature of how we raise our children. But manners are arguably the major instance of a concrete, tangible thing we are failing to pass on, to the...
3 Ways Children Can Grow Our Friendship

3 Ways Children Can Grow Our Friendship

It is proverbial that children are a unique bond between spouses. More than just a psychological bond, raising children (in the broad and rich sense, which takes a lifetime) is the single greatest natural catalyst, context, and cause of growing marital friendship. A...

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