“Hi, Mom, everything’s fine with me, I just wanted to fill you in a little about what’s up with Kevin.” So I told her the whole story. She said she hadn’t really heard of the whole babying thing before so she said she’d put on my father. I don’t think I mentioned this but my dad is a psychiatrist. He’s in general practice, but he does a lot of work with adolescents. Mom figured he might know what this was about.
“Hi, Darling!” my father said. (I think I’m his favorite, but I have a feeling that if you asked any of my siblings, they’d say the same thing.) “How’s everything going with young master O’Neil?”