There’s a particular kind of father who is very much there. He shows up. He’s at the games, the parent-teacher conferences, the band concerts. He pays for...
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Read MoreWhen Dad Is in the House but Not in the Room When people hear the words “father wound,” they think of the absent father. The dad who left. The dad in...
Read MoreThe Emotion Everyone Treats and Nobody Understands He punched a hole in his bedroom wall last Tuesday. He’s been suspended twice this semester. He screams at his...
Read MoreYou’re Not Failing. You’re Fighting. I need to say something that the parenting world doesn’t say often enough: mothers of struggling boys are doing more right than...
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