Why, you’re asking yourself, does this guy think he’s an expert on the topic of fatherhood? Forget the fact that I hosted a network show on parenting—I only did that for the catering. The fact is that as a longtime professional journalist I have been  observing my father for fifty years, not counting the twenty years I’ve 
chronicled my own children, for a sum total of seventy years, which is remarkable for a fifty-year-old guy. This is the same math logic I use to calculate my taxes.