Happy families? Really?
Who was it who said that happy families are all alike? It's the unhappy ones that are interesting. Well, if Tolstoy were alive, he might recommend a new book that purportedly can help you have the first kind. That is, if you're a certain stereotype. I had the TV on yesterday afternoon and Katie Couric was interviewing some guy who said what matters most when disciplining your kids is where you sit. What? Apparently, if you sit on a rigid surface, you'll be rigid in your treatment of your kids. If you sit on something cushioned, you will be more flexible and inherently, supposedly, better able to get through to your kids. Works for marriage, too, the writer, Bruce Feiler proclaimed, adding that he and his wife solve their arguments better if they sit side by side on a bench than if he's at his computer and she's sitting at a lower level on the couch. I don't know about that. Seems my husband and I have a hard time of it no matter...