"Cool or Stupid, Your Choice"

What do you do when you find that your name is on your ten-year-old child's 'stupid list'? You write about it...

“Cool or Stupid, Your Choice: There I was on my daughter’s ‘stupid’ list. It’s tough to work out a different kind of mothering when your home is like a bus station with a bank machine” “Facts and Arguments,” Globe and Mail, October 2, 2006