I am just thankful that my husband works for the law firm Clearwater Fl office. He may not be one of the lawyers, but being a paralegal assistant who gets to hear about the cases, it sure helps to convince his adventure-seeking boys to be extra careful in everything they do. And for a mother, that is a relief. But I guess, try as hard as parents may, there are just some kids who wish to learn the lesson the hard way—the kind of lesson that involves them directly.

I don’t want to believe that middle kids are problematic, but I guess there’s a grain of truth in all that psychology stuff. And although I wanted to burst in anger when he got into an accident recently, my husband and I thought it best to leave the learning to him and the Clearwater injury attorney his father worked with. The hospital stay and the evident scar of his lesson have truly ingrained what his father and I have been teaching them for years. Deep down, I’m just glad he was given the chance to learn and change. I’d rather have that than for everything to be too late.