Five Steps to Better Parenting
“Dad, can we throw the football?” Years ago, when the fall football season was in full swing, this was an almost daily request from my youngest son during the week when I got home from work. It was repeated throughout the weekend, especially at commer…
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There’s a venerable tradition in golf known as a mulligan, the rule that allows a “do-over,” a second try after a golfer’s first has gone awry. Alas, there are no mulligans for parents in child rearing, only the ability to look back on their efforts with pride, relief, regret, or typically some combination of all […]
Many years ago, I read a story that went the rounds of the newspapers that deeply impressed me. A little Madison boy, nine years of age, an orphan from his earliest infancy, was adopted by a farmer named Marquette, from a foundling home in Milwaukee. Some time after his establishment in his new family, the […]
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