I loved this article.  Turns out little boys need to hammer on each other and their parents.

Fortunately, The Reverend Doctor Vinoski Sweetness, Bug and I are way ahead of the game here.  “Meting out some punishment” and “savage beating” are regular phrases for us.  My boys think little of unleashing a storm of pummeling on me or each other.  It’s a beautiful thing.  (Not so beautiful when they also unleash such on Sweet Miss ViVi, but a) she’s the one who “bored” them, so she has only herself to blame, and b) they’re young, so they still have time to learn.  On the other hand, the article says roughhousing is good for “parents” too, so maybe Mom just needs to man up a bit.  (But, please, dear, not so much that it would be visible — because you look really, really good the way you are.)

But I also loved this:  the reference to the “roughhousing workshop in New York.”  If that isn’t ample proof that I’m dead-on right in finding big cities distasteful and disgusting, especially for their effect on the menfolk, I don’t know what is.  “Roughhousing workshop” — why doesn’t China just invade us and get it over with?  (Oh, yeah, that’s right — because as soon as they got past the coasts, they’d encounter that wall of deer hunters…)