Tears: Four fears

1: My son's about to turn 4 and he cries. Not because he's fragile, mind you. He's single-handedly ruining our heart pine and slate floor with his assorted antics and prat-falls. He cries when he's pissed, denied privileges and/or tired. 

My problem as a daddy, is not knowing how to teach him _ from this day forward _ that no one's sympathetic to your cries.

2: When he cries _ and it's not that often, since he prides himself on big boy antics _ is he saying something I can't grasp?

3: Am I just a moron who thinks little boys can merely told not to cry so much when they don't get their way and expect them to respond accordingly?

4: This kid's top notch: So is it write or wrong to harden him for the hard knock ahead?

("Step out of it baby, people are jealous of you. They smile in your face but behind our back they his. What's a sweetheart like you doing in a place like this. BOB DYLAN, "SWEETHEART LIKE YOU, C. 1998)

Just wondering...