He did it in a cartoon. But his observation of our adjustment to dealing with grown children is the equivalent of a thousand-worder. The late, great William Hamilton, the New Yorker cartoonist who skewered the oblivious among us, drew a cartoon with mom and dad and two adult children sitting around a restaurant table having cocktails. The tag line spoken by one of the parents: "It’s so much easier now that the children are our age."
