Laura in New York said, “I’ll be out of town for work, and I’ll call my husband at ten at night, and our son, who is four, is still up. And I’ll say, ‘Why is he awake?’ And my husband answers, ‘He told me he wasn’t tired.’ If I suggest to him that this isn’t acceptable, am I nitpicking, or am I asking him to behave like a responsible adult? It’s hard putting a kid to bed when he doesn’t want to go. Accepting that our son is not tired is a good excuse. It’s complete self-absorption. They prioritize themselves.”
