Teach Them That They Decide the End of Every Story
"As dads, one of the hardest things to think about is our kids experiencing hardship. So maybe we teach them to turn away from the things that are hard, to take the easy way, to forgo difficulty whenever possible. Maybe we teach them to look at hardship as failure, as unfairness, as the end of the story. It just wasn\u2019t meant to be, we might say, there\u2019s nothing you can do about it. What if we taught them\u2014trained them\u2014to see hardship another way, a better way?"Ryan highlights an exampl...