Arrive Before Their Explanation

Arrive Before They Are Understood

is telling your kids they can’t eat brownies for breakfast, then eating brownies for breakfast after they leave for school.

Parenthood is: Telling your kids they can’t eat brownies for breakfast, then eating brownies for breakfast after they leave for school.”

is a gradual process that turns a bright son of fourteen into a foolish father at forty.

Parenthood is a gradual process that turns a bright son of fourteen into a foolish father at forty.

is that state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage.

is not losing ourselves. It is finding parts of ourselves we never knew existed.

We don't lose ourselves in parenthood. We find parts of ourselves we never knew existed.

Parenthood is a lot easier to get into than out of.

is 75% eating the flavors in variety packs that no-one else in the family likes.

is the most even digit of all odd digits.

is the greatest single preserve of the amateur.