I used to mock, in the privacy of my mind, those parents who were
chained to their kids' beds, chained to an endless nightly routine of
lying down wth the kid, lying down in silence and stillness, hardly
daring to breathe, sometimes for hours until said kid finally fell
asleep, sometimes not until the wee hours of the night.
"Stupid jackasses," I'd mutter (in my head). "How do parents become such suckers?"
Then, one day, I became one of Those Parents. And now I understand:
Sometimes You Do What You Have To Do.
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