Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables.

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

successful parenting was like log rolling, and she'd often landed in the drink.

One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

The French would eat anything that couldn't outrun them.