Murphy Must Have Been a Mother! [antikvár]

Introduction"If anything can go wrong, it will. "Murphy's LawTrying to raise a child today is a little like trying to put a tricycle together on Christmas Eve. Few of us are trained for the job; we never seem to have the proper tools; the darn thing keeps trying to get away from us; we have a tendency to keep blaming our spouse for suggesting this ridiculous idea in the first place; and there is never enough time to do the job to our satisfaction.Yet we persevere, and somehow, either by trial and error, or by researching the subject (which is a waste of time; the directions are always for another model), or maybe just by doing our best and trusting our own judgment, the job does get finished. Because of their parents (or maybe just to spite them), most children do grow up to be sensible, well-adjusted, even charming adults, at least until they try to put together a "trike" of their own.For the past two decades-plus I have been working on ten such "projects," and to my amazement, they all seem to be turning out well. I suppose I should attribute my success as a parent to my own parents, my husband, and my God; but actually, 1 owe a lot to Mrs. Murphy.You know Mrs. Murphy; she's the lady who wrote that law: "If anything can go wrong, it will." (No, Mr. Murphy did not write it; if Mr. Murphy had written it, it would have read: "If anything can go wrong, don't try it.")1 love Mrs. Murphy's Law, for until I read it I felt that I was the only one for whom everything seemed to go wrong. But things go wrong for everyone, especially, it seems, those of us who are raising children, or loving a spouse, or making ai