“Honey, these are our kids I’m asking you to spend time with.” He doesn’t sound like a shirker. He’s been doing this for years despite our constant admonition that this is totally weird and gross. ANOTHER MOMIn the words of the country music legend Merle Haggard: “Mama tried.” Mama is also right: Your son’s habit is totally weird and gross. Now that he’s 20, though, it’s unlikely that further words of parental discouragement will help him break this pattern. Still, even though she had a typhoid vaccine and a typhoid test came back negative, she now claims to have had typhoid.

Source: New York Times July 04, 2019 12:56 UTC