ABSTRACT

Some friends of ours were supposed to visit us in a few weeks with their three young children. Unfortunately, they just informed us that they were canceling their trip. It seems their two-year-old is not quite ready for the road, as her terrible-twos behavior on a recent weekend had proved to them. Let’s face it: children change your life. Stereotypically, a childless couple has all the time in the world to hang out, pursue their hobbies, see movies, and do whatever they want to. A child comes along, and pretty much all their free time disappears. First, there are diapers, then play dates, then carpools to numerous activities.