The fourth time
You asked him three times. The fourth time, you yelled. It worked. And you saw his face: it wasn’t respect, it was fear.
Sound familiar?
Lecture number five
You explained one more time why we don’t lie. He nodded at the floor, waiting for you to finish. Nothing got through.
Same house, separate screens
You spent all of Sunday next to him. You weren’t with him for a single minute.
His tone
One day he answered you in a tone you know all too well. It was yours.
The closed door
Your fourteen-year-old doesn’t tell you anything anymore. You hear about his life from other people.
What you inherited
You swore you’d never talk the way you were talked to. And sometimes, when you’re tired, you hear yourself sounding just the same.
You don’t lack love. You lack a method.
Why the Stoics
The Stoics didn’t write parenting manuals. They wrote about something deeper: how character is formed.
Marcus Aurelius, the most powerful man of his time, opened his notebook with a list: what he learned from his grandfather, his mother, his teachers and his adoptive father, Antoninus. Almost none of it was explained to him. He saw it. Years later he wrote himself an order: “Do everything as a disciple of Antoninus.”
Seneca left precise rules for raising a child without making him hot-tempered: no harshness that breaks him, no indulgence that makes him insolent. And one worth its weight in gold: a child should get nothing by means of anger.
Epictetus and his teacher, Musonius Rufus, held that virtue isn’t learned from theory, but from practice.
“Long is the road through precepts; short and effective, the road through examples.”
Seneca, Letters to Lucilius, 6, 5
What The Stoic Father Is
A method for raising your kids firmly, without yelling. Example, not lectures.
It fits in one line: with each child, one conversation a week and some time alone together, no screens.
The handbook gives you five principles (example, not lectures · firm, without yelling · what is up to you · love with a firm hand · really being there), the method for talking without lecturing, and what to do when you yell, because you will.
And it gives you 30 conversations, ten for each age: 4 to 8 (what I’m in charge of, anger can wait, the broken glass, losing well…), 9 to 12 (what they think of you, who’s in charge: you or the screen?, the one who mocks and the one who watches…) and 13 to 17 (who you want to be, saying no, the image and the life, what I want you to know about me…). Each one tells you how to open it, the questions to keep it going, something to do together and your part that week.
Everything you get
The Stoic Father isn’t a lone PDF: it’s a 7-piece kit, ready to download.
- I
The Stoic Father handbook
The guide, the five principles and the 30 conversations by age, with a log and a weekly sheet.
- II
Quick Start
2 pages
Your first conversation this very week.
- III
Progress tracker
Excel and Google Sheets
Your kids, the 30 conversations checked off automatically, a log of what they told you and your weekly quality time, with charts.
- IV
Printable tracker
3 sheets
To fill in with a pencil.
- V
Pocket cards and poster
“Before You Yell,” how to talk, making it right, the father’s evening examination, the house code and the “They Watch You” poster.
- VI
5 phone wallpapers
A reminder every time you pick up your phone.
- VII
Commitment sheet and certificate
You sign today; you fill it in with your child when you finish the ten conversations for his age.
Everything arrives as downloadable files, in order, for your phone, your computer or on paper.
How it works
Three steps. The first one, today.
I
Today, in five minutes
You open the Quick Start, read the principle of example and sign your commitment with your three rules as a father.
II
One conversation a week
For each child, you choose the conversation from their age group they need most, read it alone first and ask more than you talk.
III
Two minutes every Sunday
You log the conversation, the one-on-one minutes, the meals without screens, the yelling and the making amends.
Who it’s for, and who it isn’t
It’s for you if…
- The father of kids between 4 and 17 who wants to stop yelling without going soft.
- The father who feels his lectures don’t get through anymore.
- The father who wants his kids to learn from what they see him do, and is willing to start with himself.
- The father who can give each child one conversation and some screen-free time a week.
It’s not for you if…
- The man looking for a technique to make his kids obey without changing anything himself.
- The man expecting a child psychology manual or a treatment.
- The man who isn’t willing to apologize to his child when he gets it wrong.
Your copy
One payment. You download it today and it’s yours.
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- The Stoic Father handbook
- Quick Start
- Progress tracker
- Printable tracker
- Pocket cards and poster
- 5 phone wallpapers
- Commitment sheet and certificate
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Everything is digital and you download it from the Hotmart download email. The texts and printable sheets come as PDFs; the tracker is an Excel file (.xlsx) that also opens in Google Sheets; the phone wallpapers are high-resolution PNG images.
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Does it work on my phone?
Yes. The PDFs read well on any phone, and the tracker works in the free Google Sheets or Excel apps. The wallpapers are sized exactly for your phone.
How much time does it take?
One conversation a week with each child and two minutes every Sunday to log it.
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Someday your child will write his own first book, even if he never puts it on paper. He’ll write down what he learned from you. Not what you told him: what he saw.
One conversation a week. Some time with no screens. Your example first.
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