By Mo Larson

Sometimes life cruises along smoothly with nary a roadblock in sight.  And then one morning you wake up and your 10-year-old is doing air quotes.  And he’s not even doing them correctly.  I know where he got it from—I went through a good 6 months to a year where I was quite liberal with the air quotes.  He recently came out of his room that he shares with his 8-year-old brother Jake and said,

“Sheesh, Jake is like (begin air quotes) obsessed with (end air quotes) Legos”.

The problem with that statement is that Jake actually IS obsessed with Legos and since his obsession has kept him from joining a gang or becoming a Green Day groupie, we are fine with his obsession.
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