Once a month we send our five kids out to dinner together. No parents.

And I LOVE IT.

Sibling Dinners. Highly recommend.

I wrote more about it in today’s Father Time 2.0 newsletter and on my blog. Link in bio. ...

If you have high-performing, high-achieving teens, they’re grinding for the entire school year.

Grades. Sports. Clubs. Social stuff. Pressure. Looooooong days.

So encourage them to enjoy summer and get some real rest as Priority #1.

I’m giving my kids three buckets to fill this summer, in order of importance:

1. Fun / Relax
2. Self-Improvement
3. Earn some $$

Go to the pool. Hang with friends. Stay up too late once in a while.

Train. Read. Work on your sport. Build a skill.

Get a job. Mow lawns. Lifeguard. Babysit. Make some walking-around money.

Don’t optimize your way out of childhood.

The best parts of summer rarely make the resume, and your kids can’t get these summers back. ...

College drop-off has a funny way of making you think about all the years that came before it.

The little kid. The playgrounds. The sports. The vacations. The complaints about my cooking.

And then, somehow, you’re weeping with your wife in a parking garage after saying goodbye.

I think the thing I’m most grateful for is that we got to this point with nothing important left unsaid.

That’s probably the best I could’ve hoped for.

Your turn now, son. ...

I’m not pretending to understand all the complexities of women’s healthcare or insurance.

But I do know this: the more I learn about what the women in my life have to navigate, the more I realize how little I’ve ever had to think about it.

Fellas, we can probably do a better job paying attention. ...