I asked you to name classic books that are "must reads" with your kids
Here are 15 of the top answers you gave, with brief synopses and discussion lessons from each (save this and reference it with your kids):
27 microhabits that will change your life:
1. Follow the One Minute Rule: If something takes one minute (responding to a text, hanging a jacket etc..) or less to complete do it immediately.
"The whole universe is in a glass of wine" by Richard Feynman ✍️
A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe.
There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the wind and weather, the reflections in the glass, and our imagination adds the atoms. The glass is a distillation of the Earth's rocks, and in its composition we see the secrets of the universe's age, and the evolution of stars. What strange arrays of chemicals are in the wine? How did they come to be? There are the ferments, the enzymes, the substrates, and the products. There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. Nobody can discover the chemistry of wine without discovering, as did Louis Pasteur, the cause of much disease. How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it!
If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts — physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on — remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!
-- as mentioned in "The Value Of Science (1955)"
33 lessons every father must teach his son:
1. Do not gloat in victory.
Everyone already knows you have won. Gloating turns defeated opponents into lifelong enemies. Being gracious in victory creates lifelong friends.
Point out something they did well, and ask how they did it.
1. Drink water this morning. Do that for your kidneys.
2. Eat at least an egg today. Do that for your brain.
3. Use your legs. Exercise. Take a walk. Do that for your heart.
4. Stay hydrated through today. Do that for your body.
5. Get morning sunlight. Do that for your skin.
6. When you sit, sit straight. When you stand, stand straight. Do that for your spine.
7. Repost. Do that for others.