Stream of Consciousness

I think the "nuclear family" isn't the best setup for young kids. That is, a household comprised of only mom, dad, and their children. If you look at family configurations in Asia, the grandparents lived with the "immediate" family.

(I always found "immediate" to be a hilarious term. Growing up, my grandparents, on my dad's side, lived with us. I would find it insulting if someone pointed them out as not "immediate" family. They are family as much as my parents are. It's all of us or none of us.)

My take on the nuclear family came kinda randomly this week as I, again, thought about Lauren and I raising our daughter. “Isn't it kinda crazy we just decided to have a kid and then had one?” I asked her. “The staff at the hospital just let us go home with this her... they have no idea if we know what we're doing.”

Of course we have pediatricians and family checking in on us, but for the most part we've been entrusted with raising a human as FIRST time parents. In school you at least had a teacher to guide you through the curriculum. At a new job, you're assigned a mentor and/or go through onboard training.

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