If it was going to be easy, it never would have started with something called ‘labor’ The best way to keep kids at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere – and to let the air out of the tires. The joy of motherhood: What a woman experiences when all the children are finally in bed. Life’s golden age is when the kids are too old to need baby-sitters and too young to borrow the family car. Any child can tell that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he’s really in trouble. Grandparents are similar to a piece of string – handy to have around and easily wrapped around the fingers of grandchildren. There are three ways to get something done:Do it yourself,hire someone to do it, or forbid your children to do it. Adolescence is the age when children try to bring up their parents. Oh to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, and half as …