The first rule of Knight Club: you must talk about Knight Club.

In the comments on my first Knight Club post, my friend Jor Bratko talks about “raising adults”, and points out that:

the legitimacy of my authority like all legitimate authority comes from love: the care of the other

He is absolutely correct.  I actually knew this, but I didn’t understand how it applied to fatherhood. Part of the problem is that the English word “love” refers to (at least) three different phenomena, which in this context I call Baby Love, Bro Love, and Boss Love — loosely inspired by the four loves described by C.S. Lewis.

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