What do you want to accomplish?

Where your power ends, so does your freedom. Increasing your power expands your freedom. Discipline expands your freedom because it increases your power.

My wife and I are raising two kids—one boy and one girl. Beyond the basics of keeping them alive and healthy, our chief responsibility is to prepare them to care for themselves. Because one day, they will leave the structured freedom we provide and enter the environment of full freedom. Adults like...

What does integrity have to do with freedom? Everything. But not how you might think.

You are responsible for what you do with your freedom. Responsibility does not mean you must do or not do anything in particular. It means you are responsible for what you do with your freedom, where it leads, and its consequences.

Let’s discuss freedom and our relationship with it.

I want these messages to influence not only your discipline but also how you think — not what you think, but how you think. Because bad thinking is a big problem.

Do not try to avoid failure. Try to achieve excellence. The only failure to avoid is destruction and death. All other failures are just part of the process.

It should not be controversial to say:

“It is hard to believe our baby is all grown up and graduating. Raising you has been the joy of our lives. We want the best for you, but we know you must make your own path and live your own life. We do not want to give you too much advice, so we will keep this short and sweet: