If you're thinking of becoming a parent, here's something about it.
It is likely that you will develop an ever-expanding and uncomfortably close knowledge of the details of television and toy culture. You will know the Star Wars Clone Wars ships that Lego has available. You will fall asleep to the endless looping of the Wow Wow Wubbzy theme song. You will know without blinking that you are holding Dr. Freeze's helmet between your thumb and index finger.
This ever-widening knowledge is secret, except to your children, who are of course your leaders in learning here. You can't share this junk with your friends who don't have children, because it looks like you yourself are a child. Which is in and of itself not untrue, given the amount of kid culture that you absorb as a byproduct of caregiving. And you certainly don't want to share with your friends who do have children, because they've got enough competing theme songs in their head already.
It is a burden best borne alone.
PS Mr Freeze is from the amazing Zakka, a block from where I work.
