Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street.

We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress and amaze us. Come home, Bod.

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

You are almost never cool to your children.