7 Activities every man must do with his wife:

I found a shoebox of my mother's grocery lists after she passed. Nothing on them but milk, bread, the usual. I cried over a grocery list. It wasn't the list. It was her handwriting, and the fact that she fed us on the boring days too.

Hand her the remote. She hasn't picked in a month.

Raising a kid who tells the truth: - The confession gets a calmer response than the discovery - You never ask a question you know the answer to - You don't retell their confession to other adults - You separate what they did from who they are Honesty is a habit you make safe.

She's been running the house on four hours of sleep and nobody's mentioned it. Mention it. Not as a problem to fix, just as a thing you noticed.

DADS: The question they'll ask at twenty-five isn't what you earned. It's whether you were in a good mood when they came home.

Ways to make her feel backed up with the kids: - You say "we decided," not "your mother said" - You don't overturn her call to be the nice one - You tell them to ask her when it's her call - You say thank you where they can hear it They need a united front more than a ruling.

Nobody is coming to inspect your house. Sit down.

She tells you about something somebody said at work. You don't know these people. You never will. You ask who said what to whom anyway. That's the whole marriage, right there.

Things she'd like you to decide without her: 1. Dinner. Tonight. All of it.