Lamentations of a Father

[Grouch]

This is quite possibly the funniest, truest essay I've ever read about parenthood:

Laws Concerning Food and Drink

The author, Ian Frazier, has written several books which are collecting dust on my shelves (Great Plains, Family among them), but based on this piece which appeared in The Atlantic Monthly a few years back, I might just have to blow the dust off them.

Enjoy!

[theeye]

OMIGOD! That is positively the most hilarious piece I've read in ages. I just can't stop laughing.

This sort of piece rarely makes it to that length without getting tiresome, but somehow Frazier manages to do it.

I loved "all the cereals that are of bright color and unknown provenance", but then he just kept outdoing himself.

This one will surely be forwarded to all my friends.

Verily it will be so.

[pluckyduck]

OMG!

I about bust a gut!!!

And the funniest thing is that Don could have written that. He's the "food police", etc., in the house.

I just sent the link to half a dozen people, more to follow.



Andrea

[susanwhipple]

Oh thank you Grouch!!
This was a wonderful ending to a horrible day!

What made it even better is just as I finish reading, with the half smile/half smirk of been-there-done-that still hanging on my lips, my 4 year old comes downstairs a full hour after being put to bed. She comes (with her pajamas on inside out- a condition she was not in an hour ago), says she, to 'axe you something'.

What is this something she needs to know at this hour?

"Mommy, what is the problem?"

Huh?

I am sending this link to every parent I know!