There's Something Very Refreshing About

The Jewel In The Baby Product Crown Is The Stroller. And If In America You Are What You Drive, Then In Parentland, You Are What You Push.

I've Come To Realize That Making It Your Life's Work To Be Different Than Your Parents Is Not Only Hard To Do, It's A Dumb Idea. Not Everything We Found Fault With Was Necessarily Wrong; We Were Right, For Example, To Resent, As Kids, Being Told When To Go To Bed. We'd Be Equally Wrong, As Parents, To Let Our Kids Stay Up All Night. To Throw Out All The Tools Of Parenting Just Because Our Parents Used Them Would Be Like Making Yourself Speak English Without Using Ten Letters Of The Alphabet; It's Hard To Do.

When You Realize You Would Consider Not Having A Child Just So You Could Take An Occasional Snooze And Be Available To See Batman Retires The Same Weekend It Comes Out, You Have To Take A Good Hard Look At Yourself And Acknowledge, I Am A Shallow, Shallow Person.

We All Hold On To Some Image Of The Family We Want, Based One Way Or Another On The Family We Had. Lots Of People Are Thrilled About The Families They Came From, Others Couldn't Get Away Fast Enough. Most People Fall Into That Vast Middle Ground: Great Affection Mixed With A Few Ideas For Improvement. A Couple Of Things They Wish Could Have Perhaps Been Done Differently.

Two Or Three Times A Week, I Drive By The Houses Of Numbers 78-100 Just To Rub It In.