Father's Day

Instead of buying your fella something he either doesn’t want or could more easily buy himself, consider giving him a project. Have him spend Father’s Day assembling a new swingset for the kids, or whatever your version of that is. If he falls asleep on Sunday night feeling like he did something good for the family, you will have made it a successful Father’s Day because you will have prioritized his mental health.

My friend’s baby was born a full two months premature after his wife had undergone ten rounds of IVF over eight years. Their son spent the first three months of his life in the NICU, unable to suck, swallow, or breathe on his own. Instead of happily cuddling and bonding with their baby, my friend and his wife spent many sleepless nights in the NICU watching helplessly as he lay in an incubator with tubes down his throat and up his nose and various doctors and nurses standing