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Tooth Fairies and Diaries
Apparently, I really messed up on this tooth fairy business. My 12-year-old daughter just informed me that she still wishes the tooth fairy were real. Not only that, but she wishes that she still believed there was such a thing--even though she knows there isn't. She wishes that I could have made more of an effort to keep her in the dark about the reality of the tooth fairy. (Yes, she's basically upset that I didn't lie to her--can a mother EVER do ANYTHING right?) She's still hurting over the time I told her, "Okay, here. Just give me the tooth and I'll give you a dollar." Wait a minute. Before you all start judging me too, let me tell you, my heart was in the right place. I was dead tired and afraid I'd fall asleep or forget to do the "tooth-fairy thing," and I didn't want her to miss out on the $$--isn't that the most important part? My intentions were the best you see!
So this morning, after her long lament, she begged me to play it up more when our baby (the three and a half year old) starts losing teeth. She wants him to think that the tooth fairy is real. She wants him to have what she "missed out on." I am not making this up. I am so dead serious--and she is too.
Well, at least I'm proud that I'm raising such an amazing child. Such a deep-thinker. Such a caring, sweet girl who wants to make the world a better place for the next generation. But I am ashamed of what a lousy, rotten mothering job I've done. I wonder if she'll ever get over the disappointment. The anger. The resentment. Oh, woe is me!
And that reminds me--now that I know what a bad mother I am, I'm getting worried about this diary she keeps. She writes in it practically every night and has done so religiously since she was at least six years old. I mean, if I messed up so badly on the tooth fairy business, surely I've messed up on a lot of other things as well. And I'm sure she's recorded all my parenting mistakes in that diary of hers. I mean, what else could she be writing in there?
Diaries should be outlawed. Tooth fairies should be outlawed. And from my DD's point of view, bad mothers should probably be outlawed, too.
Apparently, I really messed up on this tooth fairy business. My 12-year-old daughter just informed me that she still wishes the tooth fairy were real. Not only that, but she wishes that she still believed there was such a thing--even though she knows there isn't. She wishes that I could have made more of an effort to keep her in the dark about the reality of the tooth fairy. (Yes, she's basically upset that I didn't lie to her--can a mother EVER do ANYTHING right?) She's still hurting over the time I told her, "Okay, here. Just give me the tooth and I'll give you a dollar." Wait a minute. Before you all start judging me too, let me tell you, my heart was in the right place. I was dead tired and afraid I'd fall asleep or forget to do the "tooth-fairy thing," and I didn't want her to miss out on the $$--isn't that the most important part? My intentions were the best you see!
So this morning, after her long lament, she begged me to play it up more when our baby (the three and a half year old) starts losing teeth. She wants him to think that the tooth fairy is real. She wants him to have what she "missed out on." I am not making this up. I am so dead serious--and she is too.
Well, at least I'm proud that I'm raising such an amazing child. Such a deep-thinker. Such a caring, sweet girl who wants to make the world a better place for the next generation. But I am ashamed of what a lousy, rotten mothering job I've done. I wonder if she'll ever get over the disappointment. The anger. The resentment. Oh, woe is me!
And that reminds me--now that I know what a bad mother I am, I'm getting worried about this diary she keeps. She writes in it practically every night and has done so religiously since she was at least six years old. I mean, if I messed up so badly on the tooth fairy business, surely I've messed up on a lot of other things as well. And I'm sure she's recorded all my parenting mistakes in that diary of hers. I mean, what else could she be writing in there?
Diaries should be outlawed. Tooth fairies should be outlawed. And from my DD's point of view, bad mothers should probably be outlawed, too.
