Getting Ready to Fail As A Parent

Published: Aug. 9, 2018, 4 a.m.

Sometime in my early 20s, I read a quote in Esquire Magazine that said: “Raising teenagers is like trying to nail Jell-O to a tree.” The quote was in a special issue all about fatherhood. The advice in it made me reflect on my own childhood. For the first time, it really registered just how incredibly challenging parenting is. Since then, whatever fears I had about becoming a parent have only grown in magnitude. Read the original article here: https://goodmenproject.com/families/getting-ready-to-fail-as-a-parent-cmtt/