Regarding parenting, it's easier to feel sure you're trying you're best than it is to feel sure you're doing passably well, and there are no mulligans. Parents therefore tend to pay close attention to every clue concerning the kind of people their kids are turning out to be, and it was with some interest that I observed our 13-year-old when she condescended to be alone with me in the TV-viewing room for a few minutes last night. MSNBC, to which I am addicted, was covering the rollicking Republican presidential race. Without sitting down, she watched, leaning against a wall, arms crossed in front. There was a clip of a Trumpean riff on Rubio's over active sweat glands and possibly related dry-mouth syndrome. Then of course Rubio's suggestion, on the stump, that in the last "debate" Trump had wet himself during a commercial interlude. She pushed off the wall and headed for the kitchen, the freezer, and the ice cream. As she passed by me she spoke what to my knowledge were her only words of the evening. "Effing disgusting," she said.
So that was encouraging. We seem to be doing okay with her so far.
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