HAT 16: Parent Of The Year?!? Today a new age dawns upon my family’s world. The paradigm we have known, and by which we have dutifully operated, has permanently shifted. Much like one’s own mortality, the impending arrival of this new factor set has been looming at the edge of our collective conscious like a specter. And this gray vaporous form holds the scales of balance with joy and renewed freedom countered by categorical terror. Just exactly what is going on around here? Well… HERE’S A THING.