Fathers Can Find Great Inspiration In Faith.

If You Tell Your Own Story To Your Children - That Includes Your Positive Moments And Your Negative Moments, And How You Overcame Them - You Give Your Children The Skills And The Confidence They Need To Feel Like They Can Overcome Some Hardship That They've Felt.

I Grew Up As A Fifth-generation Jew In The American South, At The Confluence Of Two Great Storytelling Traditions. After Graduating From Yale In The 1980s, I Moved To Japan. For Young Adventure Seekers Like Myself, The White-hot Japanese Miracle Held A Similar Appeal As Russia In 1920s Or Paris In The 1950s.

One Day, My Daughter Tybee Came To Me, And She Said, ‘i Have So Much Love For You In My Body, Daddy, I Can’t Stop Giving You Hugs And Kisses. And When I Have No More Love Left, I Just Drink Milk, Because That’s Where Love Comes From.’

Love Is A Balance Between Independence And Interdependence. In Love, You Want To Be Independent And Interdependent. You Want To Be A Little Bit Selfish And A Little Bit Selfless. Love Can Be An Antidote To Loneliness, As Long As There Is Some Aloneness In It.

You Don't Need A Grand Plan, You Don't Need To Go Back To The Ancestors And Rewrite The Rules. You Just Need To Take Small Steps And Accumulate Small Wins.