I stopped being so sentimental about the homes we’ve had to move from when I realized that the feeling of warmth, familiarity, and security I associated with those places was actually coming from my own family
The easiest way to filter for good advice:
1) person has what you want
2) person has more disadvantages than you
People skip the second part. They just filter for the first one. If someone grew up with a trust fund, his advice isn't going to work
as i get older i realize the biggest epidemic is dudes with no real identity
if running gets cool they become runners. if tattoos get cool they cover themselves in tattoos. if being sober trends they become born again monks, mullet, coffee snob, golfer, carnivore, cowboy, whatever the algorithm tells them
whole personality built out of social contagion
thats why these dudes get smoked at everything. everyone can smell the fraud
no weight behind anything they do because none of it came from their soul. just trend hopping
be something real even if its ugly
Currently in Oslo alone, wife and kids back home. When I yearn for a day alone, I cannot grasp the emptiness that comes dwelling when I’m not with them. Every toy store I pass, every café with ice cream counter I glance at, I think of the joy that would lit fire in their eyes.
I always just thought sleep training meant that you start establishing a firm bedtime for your baby.
I’ve never not co-slept.
People who let their kids cry in the dark without comfort are sociopaths.
I've got 3 kids under 10 so I'm right into the thick of parenting season in my life.
And my biggest piece of advice or takeaway is this:
You can never spend too much time with them. It is literally the best thing you can do for them (and yourself).