Comments on: Books: American Parent http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/06/books-american-parent/ Fresh culture daily. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:58:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: figleaf http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/06/books-american-parent/comment-page-1/#comment-1679 figleaf Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:55:23 +0000 http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/?p=19165#comment-1679 Oh yeah, it's exactly like that too! Funny thing is I still have a lot of similar feelings about my children when they're sleeping even though they're now 12 and 9. This being their last day of school before summer vacation starts I might soon feel less romantic (occasional absence really does make the heart grow fonder) but for now? I just went up to wake them and I just sat there and listened to their breathing and watched the world of dreams passing underneath their eyelids. Sigh. It's definitely one of those "you had to have been there" things, and not everyone wants to go there. But it's pretty deluxe. Nice to hear about the book about straight-up being a dad (compared to, say, Michael Lewis's semi-detached "Home Game: Accidental Guide to Fatherhood") and I enjoyed this excerpt. figleaf Oh yeah, it’s exactly like that too! Funny thing is I still have a lot of similar feelings about my children when they’re sleeping even though they’re now 12 and 9.

This being their last day of school before summer vacation starts I might soon feel less romantic (occasional absence really does make the heart grow fonder) but for now? I just went up to wake them and I just sat there and listened to their breathing and watched the world of dreams passing underneath their eyelids. Sigh.

It’s definitely one of those “you had to have been there” things, and not everyone wants to go there. But it’s pretty deluxe.

Nice to hear about the book about straight-up being a dad (compared to, say, Michael Lewis’s semi-detached “Home Game: Accidental Guide to Fatherhood”) and I enjoyed this excerpt.

figleaf

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