Eight ways to use misbehavior as an opportunity to build character.

There's a story about the greatest of all heroes, Achilles.

"[A] program should always respond to the user in the way that astonishes him least." - Geoffrey James, The Tao of Programming

"When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when, but we'll get together then. You know we'll have a good time then." - Cat's in the Cradle, song by Harry Chapin

There is perhaps no greater intimacy possible between men than when a son looks to a father from whom he has learned to be a father himself.

Giving birth is the natural complement and continuation of the marital act.

"The inexpressible sadness which emanates from great cities," says Gabriel Marcel in Homo Viator (1952), "a dismal sadness which belongs to everything that is devitalized, everything that represents a self-betrayal of life, appears to me to be bound up in the most intimate fashion with the decay of the family."

We can help kids understand why it is meaningful to save sex for true love.

Why is respect so important? 

"Friendship helps the young, too, to keep from error." - Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics