we wanted to monopolize the attention of a parent, to draw it away from other siblings. This sense of rivalry... makes people compete for the attention. —Robert Greene
What I am about to admit haunts me to this day: I cared about him in the way one human cares for the well-being of any other human. But at the time, I never cared at the level that a son should care for a father. I had built a fortress around myself that protected me from h...
As a parent, sometimes I will ask my children to clean their rooms and they will take one step in and overwhelmed with the mess, throw up their arms in defeat, exclaiming: “Dad, I don’t even know where to start!” As a dad, I am always tempted in this moment to take an “I...