As a parent, you want to be encouraging to your child while also setting boundaries and providng direction in whatever they choose.  This holds true through most of their childhood and, while the boundaries slip away as they mature and can make good decisions for themselves, the encouragement will always be there. Will’s professional career is a perfect example of this parenting ideology:  he can be an astronaut, fireman, policeman, scientist who studies people… or all of them, seemingly and somehow at the same time.  However, should those fall through as his ultimate Plan A career dream, I will be glad to gently steer him back to December 5, 2008.

On that day, Will literally took a spoon that I handed him and immediately, in one fluid motion, hung it from his nose.  And kept it there long enough for me to run downstairs, get my camera, turn it and the flash on, and take a few pictures.  He even managed to nearly defy physics as he tilted his head.  I was ready to put him on Star Search.  That show’s still on, right?

So my point:  I will encourage Will in whatever it is that he chooses to do.  But I will also be there to provide the Plan B option, nasal acrobatics, because man… that kid was born with it.