I found a page stuffed into a drawer that had been ripped out of a book—it explained how to tell your kids that Santa wasn’t real.
Shades of what happened when I found the secret hidden volume of my beloved Childcraft set, the “Guide to Parents”! Only in my case, that’s how I found out what teenagers were supposed to be like and that’s when I decided never to go there.
I read similar books when I was a kid, but my parents never tried to keep them secret from me. I don’t think they ever saw my reading about parenting or child development as something to be worried about, and they were aware of my commitment never to go through all the troubles of a typical teenager. Unsurprisingly, I found my own ways to be difficult.
Shades of what happened when I found the secret hidden volume of my beloved Childcraft set, the “Guide to Parents”! Only in my case, that’s how I found out what teenagers were supposed to be like and that’s when I decided never to go there.
I read similar books when I was a kid, but my parents never tried to keep them secret from me. I don’t think they ever saw my reading about parenting or child development as something to be worried about, and they were aware of my commitment never to go through all the troubles of a typical teenager. Unsurprisingly, I found my own ways to be difficult.