Discipline in Boys & Girls

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The Homeschool Dad Job Description Nobody Hands You

You don't have to teach fractions at 10am. But you do have to own a subject, run the discipline, and keep the whole thing from eating your wife alive.

GuideDadsCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

Show up on the ordinary Tuesdays, not just the big games

Your daughter isn't keeping a highlight reel. She's keeping a pattern, and the pattern is built on the nights nobody else remembers.

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How to keep your temper when it actually costs you something

Losing it's rarely about the thing in front of you. The fix is mostly decisions you make long before the moment arrives.

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You get about 936 weekends, so spend a hundred of them well

The hundred-item dad bucket list is only a guilt trip if you never do the math on it first.

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Where does your phone charge overnight?

GuideDadsCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

The 11pm kitchen shift is where your daughter talks

Your teenage daughter won't open up on your schedule, so build a week where she can open up on hers.

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Keeping your temper is a skill you can practise

Anger isn't the problem. The gap between feeling it and acting on it's where the whole thing is won or lost, and that gap can be trained.

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GuideDadsCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

Put Your Daughter On The Calendar Before Her Friends Do

A standing hour with your daughter isn't sentimental. It's the cheapest way to show her what a man's full attention actually looks like.

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Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.

GuideDadsCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Your daughter should never have to audition for your attention

Love she can't locate is love she doesn't have. Here are the habits that make it findable, from age four to the week she leaves.

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Keeping your temper is a skill, not a personality trait

The gap between what provokes you and what you do about it can be widened on purpose. Most men never try.

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GuideDadsCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

She'll measure every man against your average Tuesday

Your daughter isn't grading your best day. She's building a standard out of how you talk to her mother, how you keep small promises, and how you handle a bad morning.