A lot of us are very lucky to have gotten the parents we were born to or adopted by.  Some are extremely lucky, such as Randy Pausch, author of The Last Lecture, who claims he won the lottery when it comes to parents!  However, most of us didn’t get perfect parents, and a lot of us got some extremely dysfunctional ones.  When my husband and I recently heard Randy Pausch claim he had won the parent lottery, my husband Jim put this spin on it:  “He may have won the lottery; I got a scratch off ticket that said, ‘Thanks for playing; try again!’”

We may as well laugh, huh?