<p>That's because he hasn't seen how real lawyers really live. ;)</p>
<p>I think my kids realized early on that they were losing something in the "attention" department from having two parents who spent all their time talking about law and overworked/overstressed and exhausted. When my d. was a very little girl, perhaps 5 or 6 years old, she came up with a dinner-table game in which she played the "judge" and we parents were supposed to be the lawyers and argue our cases in front of her. We thought it was cute at the time, but it's rather pathetic in hindsight. </p>
<p>(She made a really good judge, though -- later on she started holding court on the playground at her elementary school, and she was quite well respected for her fair approach and wise adjudication of playground squabbles). </p>
<p>I have a friend with a musical family, and their evenings were spend with the kids gathering in the den with their dad to play music with assorted instruments every evening. My kids were quite envious -- a nightly jam session seems like a lot more fun. My d's boyfriend is a musician, pursuing a BFA at a music school.</p>