Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Tell the truth but tell it slant.
If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it you just feel that...
No matter how good you are at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.