Parenting pop quiz
- Oral exam: Give me 100 words on why you put that dish on the top shelf of the dishwasher instead of the bottom shelf. Please do so despite the 2-year-old blasting away at an old raisin with the Dustbuster.
- That thing that just rolled across the floor: Is it a blueberry or a roach?
- A fellow parent is smoking a cigar in the outdoor viewing area at swimming lessons. Do you:
- Politely ask that he do so at a far more distant remove from the facility?
- Leave it to the staff of teens to notice the infraction and take the appropriate action?
- Stare longingly at him until mustering the courage to inquire as to whether he's got another one on him?