Hey Scott,

Yes, children are a wonderful inconvenience. The Arabic word for child, /Tifl/ comes from a root that means “uninvited guest” – which pretty much sums it up. I’m a boomer too, and was only technically bottle fed – the neighbors had a cow. I got quite fat.

It’s funny how parents are always blamed for their kids malfeasance. One of my son’s math teachers once phoned me to complain, saying that my son was not interested in memorizing the multiplication table. I laughed and asked him on which planet are children interested in doing that? He never phoned me again. (That kid is now majoring in math. Shows how much I and the math teacher know).