“When I was in high school, he said our needs mixed “like fire and oil.” It was a way to understand…

“When I was in high school, he said our needs mixed &ldquo;like fire and oil.&rdquo; It was a way to understand how what was going on with us and explain to me how he viewed parenting. Parenting is like authorship. An author works with language, but language comes charged. Words have their own meaning and associations and the author has to balance shaping that language with the already-charged…