Letters to the Editor
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Better With Age
I wish the babies well. They will have to grow up rapidly to fit the parents' stage of life. No noise, no shrieking, not too many other children in the house. No this or that or the other.
Above all no patience for the child.
My aunts and uncles all told me my grandmother had far more patience for my childhood antics than she'd ever had for theirs. I got away with stuff that they would have been tarred and feathered for when she was younger. And since I was an only child, she was under far less stress than she'd been as a young mother raising five kids at once.
It's difficult to say how age is going to impact parenting. Some people mellow with age, some people become bigger assholes than they ever were. I think it depends more on the individual than on a calendar.