My son’s basketball coach is new, and, I think, because of that, we actually got to spend some time together as a family over Thanksgiving.

It was a great thing. For the first time in his 17 years, I actually got a chance to do what I wanted with my kid(s), and that, though she smiled and watched, was to my wife’s chagrin - as I stood in the kitchen on Wednesday evening and loudly declared that we …