2020-02-27
20 分钟Brian Cox (HBO's "Succession") reads an essay about a father grappling with how to protect his child, but also let her live her life.
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All parents have dreams for their kids, but what happens when your children have very different dreams for themselves?
Ronald Berger takes that question on in his essay I saw a playhouse.
My daughter saw a jail.
It's read by Brian Cox.
Brian plays Logan Roy in the HBO show succession.
My year old grandson, Leo, wraps his arm around my neck as we leave the diner in Barry, Vermont, where his mother, Anna, and my wife are having breakfast.
Because Leo will not stop throwing utensils across the table, I offer to take him to a nearby hardware store to explore an environment where he cannot wreak as much havoc after a protracted and chaotic adolescence.
Our younger daughter, Anna, has just begun her final year of college.
This boy, with flax blond hair and light blue eyes, is her gift to the family she's been trying to flee for the last decade.
Toy cars, real trains, and mechanical objects of all size fascinate Leo.
He and I spend our time together exploring lumber yards, railroad depots, and any highway department that possesses a road grader, an excavator, or a dump truck.
As we enter the hardware store, the middle aged woman working the cash register says, oh my lord, can I hold that baby.
After Leo completes his first romantic conquest, we move toward merchandise he cannot destroy metal fasteners, plastic pipes, and rope.
But when I am distracted for a moment, he takes a large two socket switch from a waist high bin.
Hey, buddy, I whisper, returning the socket to the shelf.
This stuff is dangerous.