For those of you who would like to turn to topics having nothing to do with elections, I offer one on parenting. I recently came across an email that went viral a couple of years ago. In it, a father castigates his adult children for his "disappointment" in them. I don't want to revisit that email itself, in hopes that the furor has died down and his family has picked up the pieces. But I do want to use it as a jumping-off point for some observations, both because it disturbed me and because I like another chance to stick up for the underdog. In this case, I side with the children. They had neither career nor relationship success, so their dad was disappointed in them. I'm sure they were also disappointed in themselves.
Family Entanglements, photo provided by elfling