Well, I used to feel the way you do about my parents. They always treated us kids like kids, despite our professions. No matter what advice we gave them, we were idiots. But now my kids are in their twenties. I think I do a good job believing them when they talk about things and give advice. But in a lot of other ways, I still look at them and see kids, maybe about 12 years old. If I accept that they are adults, then what I am? An old woman. And I can't accept that. So, yeah, the kids have to stay kids, or I have to stop being me.
