The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.
In my old neighborhood, a boy stopped playing when he began to lose his pulse. And then he became the referee.
Fatherhood is asking your son to make up a name rather than tell anybody who he is.
Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
The essence of childhood, of course, is play.