Fatherhood, Parenting, Leadership

Many of these are rough outlines, jotted down while in the throes of trying to be a father, and never finished. Someday I’ll get back to them. I leave them up in this rough form because I think there is value in them, but there are sentences that lack context and things I’ll say differently when I get back to it.

• “Socialization”
• “Vanished on the altar of therapy” (Victor Davis Hanson)
• Adult Children: Forgive Your Parents
• Backtalk and authentic prayer
• Bring the toddlers to the Word (Douglas Wilson)
• Do Not Coerce the Heart
• Eden
• Embarassment
• Even a Child is Known By His Doings
• Fatherlessness
• Forgiveness
• G.K. Chesterton on Children at Play
• Glossary: parenting
• Inside-out Versus Outside-in
• Leaders, fear deference
• Like father, Like Father.
• Masculinity
• Modesty of Speech
• Movie: “Searching For Bobby Fischer”
• Notes from Neil Postman: “Amusing Ourselves To Death”
• On Socialization and Homeschooling
• Paradise is Home
• Peter Leithart: Modesty – the Awareness that Knowledge has a Time.
• Portrait of a Good Teacher
• Powerlessness
• Pyramid Religion and Parenting
• Sex and Violence
• Speaking Like a Father
• Studeo: eager to study
• Temptation and Death
• The Essence of Fatherhood Is The Giving Of Gifts
• The Father Gives the Gift of Work to His Son
• The Healthy Ratio
• The Law of Moral Entropy
• The Moral Cocoon versus The Intellectual Cocoon
• The Narrative Arc of Fatherhood
• The Point Of It All Is Friendship
• The Wanter
• The World Behind The Bush
• To a discouraged leader
• To Isaac, On Your Baptism Day, October 7, 2012.
• To Turn, And Toddle: More On Love And Power
• Two teachers, but in this order.
• Why we write memoirs
• Wisdom
• Word-environment