Sorry, but it clearly wasn't: he goes on to say that his kid had to steal the books back from the author's bedroom. Not sure why the kid would need to do that if the author hadn't quite seriously taken the books away.
"she", not "he". The author is a woman.
Ah, the pedantic bait and switch, one of my favorite rhetorical foibles!
It's not a bait and switch, it was my only comment here. But it's reasonable to expect people to get the genders correct for the subjects of their sentences. Use a neutral term like "they" if you don't know and don't want to or can't find out.
The great thing about threaded discussions is that you can ignore the branches you don't consider worth a discussion.
True, but the rest of the story says that it was a mistake:
> I’ve read my fair share of parenting books, but I’d put “Calvin & Hobbes” at the top of the list of required reading. It reminds me to change my point of view.