You arrive at your parents’ house as whoever you are now. And then something happens and you stop being that person for a while. Dad takes your bag. Mom asks if you ate on the way and puts on the kettle without being asked. And for the next two days, nobody needs you to be capable or competent or in charge of anything.These 17 stories about family warmth, parental kindness and compassion and the particular love that only exists in the home you came from remind us that some places have a way of turning adults back into children — and that’s exactly what makes them worth the drive.