Table of Contents

• Author's Note
• Preface
• Part One
  • Crossing into Thirty
  • Pacem in Terrors
  • Tykes Bearing Gifts
  • Rag Time
  • Food for Thought
  • Drive, They Said
  • Tube or Not to Tube
• Part Two
  • Something Happened
  • It's Better to Receive
  • Birth of a Nation
  • A Christmas Diary
  • Masculine/Feminine
  • Love Thy Neighborhood
  • Hoping Cio-Cio-San Will Die before the Kickoff
  • The Ice Cometh, Man
• Part Three
  • Firstborn
  • Middle Child
  • Three's Company
  • Fathers and Sons

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Mackintosh describes the delights and terrors of living with little boys who are determined to be boys, despite the nonsexist childrearing practices of the 1970s.

About the Author

A contributing editor of Texas Monthly magazine, Prudence Mackintosh is a popular author and public speaker, whose commentary on family life, schooling, Texas women, and Dallas architecture has also appeared in such magazines and newspapers as McCall's, Ladies Home Journal, Redbook, D Magazine, Parenting, and the Dallas Morning News. She lives in Dallas with her husband, John A. Mackintosh, Jr., with whom she looks forward to completing the conversations interrupted by their sons thirty years ago.