I read this recently from a wise friend:

Some happy homes have boisterous, energetic, passionate, imaginative,  playful, noisy parents and children with lots of shouting up and down the staircase, thunderous romping and stomping, wrestles and tussles breaking out all over and children who never walk down the middle of a hallway but carom off the walls instead, etc. 

So I want to say that some home-life ideals that we latch onto in our imaginations are a little anemic and tightly-wound by comparison to the richness of real life with children–at least in some families. 

cklewis on January 10th, 2007 | File Under Love | 3 Comments -