<p>This is multidirectional in my family – my mother and I are grammar/spelling/punctuation fiends, and we look at all kinds of things for our family members. My older sisters had me proofread their papers when they were in high school and I was in middle school. My father sends me drafts of the speeches and articles he writes. I sent drafts of legal writing to my mother, because a good brief or opinion should be clear and readable to a non-lawyer. When I was in legal practice, my father (a lawyer) and I called one another with legal questions all the time. I was fresh from a great education, and he had forty years of real-world experience, and between us we could figure anything out. </p>
<p>So in my family, the question could just as easily be, when does my dad cut the cord to me? :)</p>