Not long ago, when I was at the neighborhood playground with my kids, I shamed myself by saying something to my son that I had promised myself I never would.
I called him buddy. My own son!
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My ‘Buddy’ System: The Nickname I Vowed Never to Call My Sons
It’s good to be like a friend to your child, but a father needs to be much more than that.
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Chris Scalia with his sons in 2017
James F.X. O’Gara
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Christopher J. Scalia is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of 13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (but Probably Haven’t Read).
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