Jun 20 2009
Things I Appreciate About Children
1. They are enthusiastic and (usually) effective elevator button pushers.
2. They provide canvases upon which parents can wage passive-agressive warfare. “What are we doing tomorrow, dada?” “Tomorrow we are all going to see a friend of mama’s that dada has absolutely no interest in seeing.” “Oh. OK.”
3. They can do amazing things with scotch tape and cheese.
4. They render you insignificant on family vacations, so that your sole function becomes grandchild transporter.
5. They are astsute miners of vocabulary. “The dog smells like ass, dada. Yucky ass.”
6. They provide excuses to spend time visiting Toys ‘R Us and watching Tom And Jerry.
7. When you look at them, you see the blend of both parents, and this always makes me happy.
