When I was insisting that Aaron eat something he didn’t want to eat, John observed, “She’s fattening you up, Aaron, just like she did to Hansel and Gretel.” Sure you can laugh, they’re not your kids. We like to peek in the window at other people’s families and laugh or sigh, then go on home to our own. That’s why I wrote this book—so you could take a look at two families, mine and yours.