Sitemap - 2023 - Dad Explains

The Fallacy of Cessation: Suicide Transfers Pain, It Doesn't End it

Giving Up Is Dumb

Keep Going, Maybe Your Life Is Waiting On The Other Side

Be Uncomfortably Strong, Not Comfortably Numb

The Peril of Playing the Victim

Say Your Piece, Then Find Your Peace

Imperfect Is Perfection

When Words Are Masks, Actions Are Mirrors

Don't Be Used, Walk Away

Stop Letting Them Hurt You

Focus, Kiddo: Creativity Through Constraint

Who Told You Life Was Supposed To Be Easy?

Life's Uncertainties: Preparing for the Unthinkable

Reflecting Embrace

Both Sides of Understanding

Misguided Martyrdom: The Illusion of Being the Exception

Taming the Elephant

Look Beyond Yourself

The Digital Illusion of Closeness

Your Enemy, Obscured

Block Out The Noise, Not Your Stampede, and Think Horses, Not Zebras

See Who You Are

Be True To Yourself and Follow Your Compass

What Matters

Checked Out

Learn To Communicate

Become More Than Your Fear

Confront Your Darkness and Live

On Courage

See Yourself As Worthy

Remember Where You Were

Dad's Learning Volume 26: Resurrecting Rumination

You're a Good Boy and I Love You

Forgive Yourself

Don't Be Mean To My Child

Allow Mistakes

Embody Curiosity, Boring Into Conversation

Speak Less

Emotionally Intelligent

Dad Explains: Permission Granted, Yet By Whom?

Intellectual Curiosity

Check Your Rearview, Then Adjust

Embrace Change, Not Changing Others

Ask the Right Questions

The Illusion of Control and the Power of Adaptability

Embracing Change

On Adaptability

Beholden to Beauty

Dad Explains: Tough Love

Wonder Abounds

Kindness Awakened

Narrative and Life

Generations of Improvement

Alarm System

Entropy Defined & Unmitigated Growth

Idle Hands

The Art of Persistence

Commit To Yourself

Learning is a Choice

Foundational Thought

Freedom Through Structure

Dad Explains: Stupid Is As Stupid Does

On Structure

How It Was Made

Truth In Consequences

Dear Children

Preface

Dad Explains: I Wrote A Book; Crowdsourcing Polish

What Is Marriage #7A

What Is Marriage #6A

Let Me In Chapter 6: The Eternal Now

Dad Explains: Feeling Your Feels

Job Creation Update

Let Me In Chapter 5: The Perks and Pains of Twelve

What Is Marriage #5A

What is Marriage #4A

Job Creation

How Social Media and Analytics Robs Us of Dreams

What is Marriage? 3A

Dad Explains: Deficient Gratitude

What is Marriage #2A

Dad Explains: Lessons From Writing Part 1

Dad Explains: Congruence And Others

What Is Marriage #1A

Let Me In Chapter 4: A Glimpse Of Hell

Let Me In Chapter 3: In Body And Mind

Dad's Learning Volume 25: Emancipate Your Mind

Invite your friends to read Dad Explains

Father's Day Off!

Dad's Learning Volume 24: Teachable Moments

Let Me In Chapter 2: And It Was So

Let Me In Chapter 1: The Salesman

Son, Can't You See?

Dad's Learning Volume 23: Good Guilt

Question Me

An Inquiry, If You Will

Dad's Learning Part 22: Act To Feel

Archetypal Fatherhood

Time For A Warm-Up

1. An Attempt Was Made

Inoculating Against Ideology

Dad's Learning Part 21: Tell Dad He Was Right

The Will To Ignore

Stuck In Stride

Baseball Blessings: The Longest Battery

Dad's Learning Part 20: Channel Surfing

Fatal Equation

The Socratic Oath: First, I Know Nothing

Diverting Thoughts

The Dishes of Redemption

Insight in Inquiry: Investigating Ideas, Instincts, and Illuminating Intuition

Dad's Learning Part 19: A Conversation Of Faith

Passion Projects of Passion

When Cornered We Fight

The Art of Asking Part 2: Honest Inquiry to Write Home About

Cwik Trip: Preparing For The Journey

Gratitude and Bird Noise

The Art of Asking Part 1: Finding Inspiration in Questions

Counter Strike: Anxiety

Join me on Notes <-- Substack Pre-wrote This

Dad's Learning Part 18: My Own Worst Case Scenario

Changes Coming

"No Bad Days" Isn't Real and Core Belief Worksheet: Short and Grim

Anticipatory Anxiety and Examining the Evidence: Core Beliefs

Dad's Learning Post Therapy Worksheet - Challenging Negative Thoughts

Writing, Unobstructed

Writing, Blocked

Growth and Perspective

Pre-Therapy Workshop Follow Up

Pre-Therapy Workshop

Dad's Learning Part 17: Decompression and Leveling Off

Recycled Wordplay

Dad's Learning Part 16: Vicious And Coercive

DISCUSSION: Quotes in written content.

Dad's Learning Part 15 - 2: This Too Shall Pass, Darken The Room (A Continuing Series)

Socrates and Dad

Link To A PDF of "Your Personal Narrative"

The Sacrifice Of The Mother

Personal Narrative Prompts And Gratitude

Dad's Learning Part 15: Old Problems, New Frontiers (A Continuing Series)

"If You Have A Story, Tell Your Story"

The Preservation Of My Life

Dad's Learning Part 14: Take Time To Grieve (A Continuing Series)

Dad's Learning Part 13: Tell Me When A Rule Is Dumb (A Continuing Series)

Words From My Grandfather

Dad's Learning Part 12: Efficacious Interpersonal Skills (A Continuing Series)

Dad's Learning Part 11: Fishing in the rivers of the valleys of my mind (A Continuing Series)

Subscription Update

Dad's Learning Part 10: A Focus On Emotional Intelligence (A Continuing Series)

"IF" by Rudyard Kipling

Dad's Driving Advice

Dad's Learning Part 9 (A Continuing Series)

This Dog Beside Me

On Grief: It's A Bit Hard To Focus

Dad's Learning Part 8 (A Continuing Series)

Dad's Learning Part 7 (A Continuing Series)

Buzzworthy Breakdown Week 1

Dad's Learning Part 6 (A Continuing Series)

A Declaration Of Fortitude In The New Year

Love, Dad... Is taken