Dad Entry #148

Megan spiked a 105 degree fever yesterday. I imagined her brain cells simmering, as if in a sauce pan. I was concerned. Someone - who loves Megan dearly, believe it or not - suggested that, with luck, her 'crazy brain cells' would be accordingly affected (meaning, I assume, boiled away and destroyed), and the rest of her lovely grey matter spared. (At least this alleged loving relative added that part, the bit about some of her brain surviving). Megan is okay, and therefore we can jest. But we'll know soon enough if her crazy brain cells.... kidding. Megan isn't any crazier than the rest of us. She is, however, very energetic and excitable, and beautiful, and occasionally, if not often, moody. In a word, she's a woman.

I saw this quote recently: "Parenthood immediately makes you a hypocrite." Maybe. But another quote comes to mind: "Hindsight is 20/20." We have the benefit of retrospect and replay. Even college football uses replay now, despite a foolish tournament-less system to crown a national champ. So does hindsight excuse hypocrisy? Absolutely! We parents have been there! Intoxicants, lies, laziness, love triangles, betrayals as both perpetrator and victim, broken laws, brain-killing substances and behaviors and television shows on networks like the CW and the WB... the more we've experienced, the better! Okay, that's not exactly right, but as parents we wear a different hat now, and hypocrisy is the least of our worries.