Great chat about engineering parenting vs shepherded parenting. There’s a lot we can’t control. But there are some things that we can.

Luke plans to take Everleigh to the Symphony once a month. Gomer already showed The Dark Knight to to his wonderful and impressionable children.

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• Russell Barkley greatest 5 mins about #Parenting - YouTube — Engineering parenting vs. Shepherd parenting
• Tips for Managing Adult ADHD - HelpGuide.org — There are skills you can learn to help control your symptoms of ADHD. You can improve your daily habits, learn to recognize and use your strengths, and develop techniques that help you work more efficiently, maintain organization, and interact better with others.
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• ‘The Dark Knight’: Ten Scenes That Are Still Extraordinary – Screen Mayhem
• Democracy in America, Part I. by Alexis de Tocqueville- The Project Gutenberg eBook — Amongst the novel objects that attracted my attention during my stay in the United States, nothing struck me more forcibly than the general equality of conditions. I readily discovered the prodigious influence which this primary fact exercises on the whole course of society, by giving a certain direction to public opinion, and a certain tenor to the laws; by imparting new maxims to the governing powers, and peculiar habits to the governed. I speedily perceived that the influence of this fact extends far beyond the political character and the laws of the country, and that it has no less empire over civil society than over the Government; it creates opinions, engenders sentiments, suggests the ordinary practices of life, and modifies whatever it does not produce. The more I advanced in the study of American society, the more I perceived that the equality of conditions is the fundamental fact from which all others seem to be derived, and the central point at which all my observations constantly terminated.