I said to him, then: "You can't talk to her like that. Neither can I—remember that I stopped and apologized as soon as I noticed. I was cruel, and I was cowardly, and now I'm REALLY TRYING to make amends. Don't imitate what I do wrong—copy the ways I try to be and do good, not the ways I sometimes fail to. Copy the trying. Learn from the mistakes like I'm trying to, instead of repeating them. OK?" !parenting
... and putting our own kids to bed at the end of yet another exhausting day, I consider how much easier it is to make babies than it is to make adults. !parenting
Read the #ThingExplainer chapter on nuclear bombs to my son @rafael this weekend. He thinks most things in that book are dumb, but sat rapt for this one. So did I. It's less like "up goer 5" and more like how #DrWho describes the Last Great Time War, and utterly terrifying in its real-ity. !parenting