We're dropping our last email of 2024 before we go dark for the holidays. (Let's be real - we'll be assembling toys at 2am).

Before we clock out for the year, we want to hear your thoughts on these emails. What sections are hitting? What's missing? What do you want more of in 2025?

Hit reply and let us know - we started this thing to help us all be better dads, and we want to make sure you're getting real value from it (even if it's just one solid nugget a week).

We'll be back in January with some fresh heat. Until then, may your batteries be included and your allen wrenches never strip. Cheers gents! 🍻

Why December Hits Different

Watching them arrange cookies for Santa or practice their lines for the school play, you can almost see next year's Christmas - the one where they might be "too old" for this stuff. The one where maybe they know.

To all you dads out there: Whether you're in the trenches of midnight feedings or watching your teenager pretend they're too cool for traditions - this exact version of them? This Christmas? You only get it once.

So take the video. But maybe watch it through your eyes instead of your phone screen.

And grab that extra cookie while you still can. Time moves faster than we think. 👊

The Best Quotes on Fatherhood

We’re mixing it up today with a bunch of quotes on being a dad. Enjoy.

• “You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.” – Walter M. Schirra, Sr. 

• “Some dads liken the impending birth of a child to the beginning of a great journey.” – Marcus Jacob Goldman

• “One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.” – George Herbert

• “The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.” – John Green

• “One of the greatest things a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” –Howard W. Hunter

• “That is the thankless position of the father in the family—the provider for all, and the enemy of all.” – J. August Strindberg

• “Parenthood remains the single greatest preserve of the amateur.” – Alvin Toffler

• “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglass

• “A girl’s father is the first man in her life, and probably the most influential.” –David Jeremiah

• “Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.” – David Gottesman

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• Works inside (winter) or outside (summer)

• Glassdoor for pizza-watching entertainment

• Foolproof controls

• Makes you look like you know what "Neapolitan" means

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Why New Year’s Resolutions Keep Failing

Remember when you swore this was the year you'd eat better, sleep more, AND hit the gym 5 times a week? Turns out trying to overhaul your entire life on January 1st is why most resolutions fail before February.

Here's a better way: Pick one thing. Just one. Make it specific (like "one starchy carb per meal" instead of "eat better"). Master it for a month. Then move on to the next.

Get some more tips here.

Why This MD Isn’t Saving for His Kids’ College

A doctor from North Carolina crunched the numbers: $225,000 for state school by 2035. $400,000 for private. With three kids, that's potentially $1.2M in college costs.

His solution? He's not saving for it - at least not in the traditional sense. Between trade school options, entrepreneurship paths, and some smart financial moves you might not know about, he's taking a different approach to the college question.

→ Read his full breakdown here. 

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