My husband and I were having a discussion one day. I told him about a problem I was having. As soon as I laid out my problem, he began trying to solve it. That’s what we are wired to do, I think, is solve problems. I remember saying to him, “I don’t need you to…
Category: parenting
On The Increasingly Complex Algorithm of Parenthood
When I was 15 or so I asked my dad to help me with some algebra homework. I was not good at algebra way back then (she notes, as though she might be much better at algebra now) but my father was purported to be quite handy at math so who better to ask? My…