Don't badger people without children into admitting the secret desire for children you're sure they have to you! Don't badger anyone! Leave the badgering to the badgers.
Mallory OrtbergYou, too, will someday die, perhaps under inconvenient circumstances, at a time when you do not particularly wish to, and for causes that you cannot yet predict.
Mallory OrtbergWorrying seems like a fairly natural state of being for a parent, so feel free to worry as much as you want.
Mallory Ortberg