All Joy And No Fun: The Paradox Of Modern Parenthood - Plot & Excerpts
He loves the fact that this boy can almost guess the wishes of dogs from the variety of expressions at a dog’s disposal. —Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (1992) THE FIRST TIME I was in a room with Sharon Bartlett, it took a long time for me to notice her, even though she was older than almost everyone around us by a factor of two. Unassuming and unadorned, she chose a place at the far end of a long table in her ECFE class, and she said nothing until the last ten minutes of the discussion, at which point it finally became clear that she was raising her three-year-old grandson, Cameron, alone. Even then, she didn’t say much, but what she said was so moving that it prompted me to write her a note a few weeks later, just as I had written to Jessie and Angie and Clint, to ask if I could come visit. “Sure,” she wrote back, the very same day. “I have no problem talking about parenting my grandson. I think there are many of us grandparents parenting the children of our deceased children, and while it is not the aging plan we had in mind, it has its joys and sorrows.”
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