Sometimes I wonder about having children. The act of parenting a fifth grader seems so disconnected from parenting the baby. Here I am sitting with my fifth grader making him comlete his homework, making him write down all of the assignments that are due in the calendar that he has with him at school so that he can keep up with his homework, double checking for the third time if he has finally turned in homework that was due last week. When he was a baby all I had to do was hold him and feed him. I guess what I am saying is that this just seems like so much more work than I thought.