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The Tenets of Dad: (1) Unconditional Love. Your kids are persons of sacred worth deserving of your unconditional love, even when they are not like you and even when you don’t understand who they are becoming.

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(2) Patience and Presence. Stay calm through their tantrums, hold them through their tears, listen to what interests them, laugh at their jokes, and bear witness to their growth.

And yeah, these tenets are a very conscious effort to steer away from our culture’s caricatures of manhood, fatherhood, and masculinity and speak to what being a dad means to me.