Aren’t they precious?

Smiley Anders for September 17, 2011

Smiley Anders, Advocate columnist

Aren’t they precious?

Dear Smiley: Of course (as you said) most of your “cute kid” tales come from grandparents, not parents.

In the relationship between parent and child, the cuteness is expended mostly to ensure the child makes it through the early years — as in, through gritted teeth, “Oh, how cute! Junior just washed the remote in the toilet.”

J.R. MADDEN
Baton Rouge