Tuesday, July 17, 2001

Polylog

Marek keeps giving us something to talk about. The whole Cluetrain list is pretty damn interesting too.

And loving the crap out of him seems to be working fine.

For fun Jeffrey just pressed a cold glass of orange juice against my sweaty back. I cringed and let out a yowl. Jeffrey laughed. He's a trickster, and loves it when people emote. Always has. I had just told him not to do that. This, of course, was even more reason to do it anyway.

How, short of all the wrong moves, do you parent a disobedient kid who is amused by the effects?

One of the graces of being an old parent (I'll turn 54 at the end of this month) is giving a much smaller shit than I used to. Maybe that's because every "bad" kid I ever knew (and I've known a busload) have all turned out to be A-1 adults. They also bring to mind what Ed McCabe once said: "I hate rules. They only rule out the possibility of brilliant exceptions."