Foundation Father | M.A. Franklin
@FoundationDads
Become a better father. Practical tips on fatherhood, masculinity, and homeschooling. Writing for 11K+ on Substack. https://www.foundationfather.com/about
A common trope, especially in Westerns and Western-inspired stories, is the damaged man who does what needs to be done, because those actions would sully whoever did them. But the hero is already damaged. He's already going to Hell, in a sense. Might as well save some people on…
You can just keep reading to your kids after they become teenagers. No one is going to stop you. Your apathy or laziness might stop you, but that's on you. Don't blame your kids for "growing up." foundationfather.com/p/you-can-keep…
Gnostic says what?
If you were in another body, having another experience, you would be exactly the same.
Is The Iron Giant the greatest Superman movie ever made? It's already one of the greatest movies ever made, period. Does it also claim this other title? mafranklin.com/p/superman-is-…
Thank you @FoundationDads for publishing this piece. open.substack.com/pub/mafranklin…
If education is about obtaining a credential or degree, then why not have AI handle most of the work? But if education is really about the cultivation of virtue and the transferrence of civilization, then the desire to use AI betrays a shallow soul that will always be shallow.
Education was ruined way before AI came along. AI only exposed the vacuous nature of the current system. The solutions are simple, but not scalable. - In-class discussions and in-class essays. - oral recitations But this also means kids who are disruptive and undisciplined…
Years ago I was driving to summer arts intensive in Fresno and listening to an NPR type show about the drought in California They were interviewing a farmer, he gave an amazing in depth breakdown of the fallacies in short term thinking and understanding by the state legislature,…
What I want to convey is that there is an American tradition harkening to before the Founding and extending far beyond it. That tradition is pseudonymous writing, and it's as American as apple pie. Always has been, and for goodness' sake, let's hope it always will be.
My dad used to lie down in bed foisted up on his elbow reading glasses perched, while mom was sitting at her vanity nearby getting ready for bed, and I would sit on the floor hands around knees listening to him read a story about a Saint. I was 17. Fondest memories. 💕
The audiobook market is $7–11 billion. Over 500 million people will listen to podcasts this year. That's a lot of people who spend time listening to other people talk to them and tell them stories. Yet you think a father reading to his teenage children is absurd? 🧵
There are multiple, giant, Reddit/Facebook/Tik-Tok platforms telling women that their gender atypical kids are trans, that they should feel no need to sexually satisfy their spouse or play any domestic role ("He has two hands!"), that they should get divorced over minor fights,…