For all our grief as parents, in both cases my husband and I took our cues from Jack.

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But neither of my parents had the opportunity to go to college, but as I told the girls earlier, what my parents did for us is that they saved, and they sacrificed everything for us because they wanted something more for me and my brother.

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My parents came to America in the late 1960s for the same reasons as earlier generations of immigrants: in search of a better life for themselves and their family.

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Raising a boy, for instance, is quite different from raising girls. (In our first time as parents, my husband and I had two daughters.) While my girls were emotional, easily upset, demonstrative and clingy, boys often slink into the house after school, trying to avoid all manner of human contact.

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As for my child who is in camp right now, I'm not going to be one of those extreme parents.

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As happened with my family, you can find yourself making the leap from simply being parents to being employers: for federal income tax purposes, a babysitter can be classified a household employee.

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