re: #49 ggt

The more BORING a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being GOOD PARENTS — because they have a TAME CHILD-CREATURE in their house.

Charles, we really need a way to up-ding Frank!

I must have been a terrible parent then, because my kid was not tame by any stretch of the imagination, and is still … well-loved but difficult, let me put it that way.