Adulthood comes soon enough, with all the responsibilities, decisions, sorrows, and burdens that it brings. Even if it seems as though kids want to decide everything, to know everything, to control everything, they don’t. So we take on that hard role. In the following essays I’m going to address four particular areas in which we can protect our kids and give them the sweet relief of knowing, “There is a grown-up around, and it is not me.”
