It's hard to send your baby off on a plane without you, though that's less reasonable, because sending him off in a car is statistically a bigger risk.

If you're not sure what you want, then hold back from making plans or responding to invitations until you have a chance to think about it.

You can't make someone agree with you, not even when you're 100 percent sure you're right.

Almost no one can take on an entire future in one step, much less while reeling emotionally.

Your job is to be you, which includes being the chief beneficiary of all things you do right, the chief victim of all you do wrong, and the one person on Earth who has to live with every choice you make. As gatekeeper to your life, you’re it.

When you fail to see something, that doesn't mean I'm hiding it.

The only answer that has any chance against against the information saturation kids face these days is to talk openly with kids, early enough and often enough and unflinchingly enough that you set the precedent of being the safe place they can go to ask their difficult questions. It has to happen starting when they're 2 or 3, and they ask you where babies come from and instead of freaking out and deflecting, you give facts commensurate with their ability to understand.