- Within two hours of reading Tom Sawyer (assuming your readers can tolerate the gruesome murder scene), you will find your children playing pirates. Possibly naked.
- If I fall on the ice, I will undoubtedly break my arm and have to rely on friends to bring us meals for the next three months. Kids, however, adore ice. Today Benjamin jumped out of the car onto ice on purpose, wiped out immediately, and got up grinning, “That was totally worth it.” Nice bruise, buddy.
- Even if they aren’t quadruplets with some weird telepathy going on among them, siblings have their own language and jokes, mostly created while naked and singing in the shower. Naked helps. (See #1.)
- The more a seven-year-old cuddles with mommy, the more cuddling is needed.
- A five-year-old may or may not include “same hair color as mine” in her list of top 3 qualities of an ideal spouse. And he may or may not sound disturbingly like her brother.
