You can schedule naps and you can have regular pizza nights and your child should expect consistency with love and discipline.

But you can’t plan for the wardrobe conflicts, the naked painting, the totally developmentally-appropriate yet unexpected “let’s do this instead” moments that can throw parents into a tizzy.

But that's okay, because some rules are meant to be broken. Sometimes...

Still, assuming that the rain was going to continue made no sense to me. If I had meteorological instruments available to me, then I could find out if it’s a weather system that would be around for a few days. But generally speaking, looking at one day’s rain shouldn’t predict the next day’s weather.