I love you, Xena. You know I do. You are the coolest, and if I wasn't a married man........
Uh, nevermind.
But, unless you can point to one of those critters and say "That one's mine," you cannot possibly understand.
Hate to be the middle child here, but you both are correct.
I knew absolutely everything there was to know about parenting before I became a parent. Now I know I was sadly mistaken.
That being said, sometimes an "outside" point of view helps us see things we wouldn't otherwise see. Like the old Indian proverb goes: if you want to know what water is, don't ask the fish!