To Have A More Peaceful Home, Have Fewer Of These

This is an excerpt from Ryan Holiday’s latest book The Daily Dad (which you can preorder signed copies of now!).

To Have A More Peaceful Home, Have Fewer Of These

“These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.”

-Marcus Aurelius

At the core of most of the conflict between parents and children—and so often spouses—is one thing: judgment. We have opinions and they have opinions, and these opinions are the source of disagreement. If we, as parents, would like to have a better relationship with our children, there is one simple thing we can do: we can have fewer opinions.

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