Inner Child

No use fighting it. Boys will be boys ... but it is important to remember that sometimes they have to be the dad, too. So boys, try to have a little more sense than to drag your son behind as you are running with the bulls in Pamplona. And if you get it in your head to start banging around inside the house to build a new bedroom for the kids, try not to saw through beams holding up the roof.

Not only can a dad's stupidity damage a kid now, but it's impossible to know what a slip of sense might lead to: Sharon Osbourne blames her need to send excrement to critics on learning of her dad's affair — when the (Mensa-material) mistress brought her a "really ugly monkey statue."

** Dadding is not always acting, sometimes it requires at least a tidbit of thought. **