Some of the hardest moments in parenting are the ones where you’ve got to balance your desire to give your kid a moment of simple, uncomplicated happiness with the bigger picture. For instance: when “grappling with the wildly unpredictable inequities of the fairy financial system.”
When Keema Waterfield’s daughter lost her first tooth, catching her off-guard, her biggest problem was that she didn’t have any cash and her debit card had just expired — “thank you, pandemic,” she writes. But it also took her back to a tough chapter of her own childhood: “I found myself briefly paralyzed by this completely predictable parenthood milestone, thrown back to an ongoing heartache from my childhood. Why were the Tooth Fairy, Santa, and Easter Bunny visits at my house so shitty compared to my classmates?”
It’s not just the loose teeth that catch you off guard; it’s how fast they start asking the really hard questions, too.
— Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor |
