Full time parenting is an incredibly thankless job, mainly because your boss, a child, never has a kind word to say about any of the work you do, no matter how well you do it. Of course, this can also be true of some adults, as they don't always grow out of taking things for granted, nor into the confidence, nor into the ability to articulate clearly what they want. It's not always our fault, though. Sometimes it can be hard to get the kind of healthy variety we need.