You Can’t Choose Your Parents, But You Can…

The Daily Dad · Dec 30, 2019 · 2m

One of the best lines from Seneca is that while we can’t choose our parents, we do have the ability to choose whose children we will be. In ancient Rome this was even more true than it sounds, because it was common for people to be adopted into families. Seneca’s brother, Lucius Annaeus Novatus, for instance, was adopted by a man named Gallio, whose name he eventually took (and if that name sounds familiar, it’s because Seneca’s brother is in the Bible).In any case, this idea is worth thinking about now that you’re a parent. Instead of thinking about how you parents were, and using that as an…