Learning to Love the Screwdriver

While second-guessing yourself every day forever

[The final installment of my accidental four-part series on parenting, trying to be a good father, and my relationship with my son.]

My son, for reasons that are a tangle of nature and nurture impossible to fully unravel, does not, and has never, responded well to the simple mechanism of a hammer…

…and that has led me to thinking a whole damn lot about h…