How to Be a Great Father

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One meditation a day inspired to help you do your most important job, which is be a great father. These are meditations inspired by ancient wisdom, psychological research, and just great strategies from normal dads just like you. Show them how to use that energy. Kids don't always understand that they have the tools to fix their own problems. They don't fully realize the latent capacities inside them. Our job, as we have said many times before, is to help them become who they are. This will not only change their lives, it may well change the world.

Joan Didion was bored. She was four or five. She was bothering her mother. She was asking for something to do.

Her mother could have sent her away. Told her to stop. Told her to figure it out for herself. Instead, she went over to a drawer and pulled out a notebook. Here, she said, if you’re bored “then write something. Then you can read it.” The little girl was taken aback. “I had just learned to read,” she later explained, “so this was a thrilling kind of moment. The idea that I could write something–and then read it!”

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