After a few months away, I'm back and I have something to show for it.
Tomorrow, two episodes of Raising Geniuses drop. A podcast about how history's greatest minds were actually raised and what their parents did differently.
Episode 1: The Wright Brothers
Episode 2: Einstein
Links tomorrow.
While you wait, here's something I've been thinking about:
We get mad at our kids. They act out and we react.
Every mistake becomes a lesson we beat them over the head with. Every outburst met with another outburst.
But here's what we forget: they're still figuring it out. Their brains are still developing. They don't understand their own feelings yet. They're learning what it means to be a person.
The last thing they need is a parent who makes them feel worse for it.
They need the opposite. A parent who absorbs the chaos instead of adding to it. Who forgives quickly. Who models what calm actually looks like.
Because here's the hard truth: how we act is how our kids will act.
We are the example whether we want to be or not.