When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.
I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up.
With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.
I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.
