At the the post office today I saw identical twin toddlers that were in that irritable hyper state any parent who who’s reading this will understand. There was a time when I would’ve been annoyed by this. I would have been inwardly critical of parents who didn’t have a tight rein on their kid(s). Having now experienced parenthood, I now realize that this is an unrealistic expectation. Kids are not adults as my wife reminds me every time I’m annoyed that our son isn’t behaving the way I want him to behave.
And seeing those twin toddlers surprised me, because I’m so completely different from that person I was not too many years ago. Go figure.