For a long time, I thought that I was an enlightened parent by virtue of being an enlightened person. What a fool. Rumaan Alam Read Quote
Children are weird. I was going to say ‘most children,’ but I think this a rare universal law. Rumaan Alam Read Quote
Truly smart people and truly smart dressers share one thing in common: They make it look easy. Rumaan Alam Read Quote
With respect to parenting, biological age is not, for men, the concern it is for women. Rumaan Alam Read Quote
Parenting is love, sure, but it’s as much about receiving love as it is giving it. Parenthood is a kind of vanity. Rumaan Alam Read Quote
The culture looms much larger than you do as a parent, and one can hardly rely on the culture to impart the lesson that womanhood is valuable. Rumaan Alam Read Quote
When we had our first son, four different people gave us the same present: a copy of Ezra Jack Keats’ ‘The Snowy Day.’ A new child often inspires duplicate gifts – we were given a dozen mostly useless baby blankets, just one more thing to spit up on – but this one was different. Rumaan Alam Read Quote
Wishing there were more children’s books like ‘The Snowy Day’ is a bit like wishing there were more grownup books like ‘Anna Karenina.’ There are only so many masterpieces out there. Rumaan Alam Read Quote
