June 21, 2021

Answer Her Question

 

I was out walking with my 4-year-old daughter. She picked up something off the ground and started to put it in her mouth. I took the item away from her and I asked her not to do that. 

"Why?" my daughter asked. 

"Because it's been on the ground and you don't know where it's been. It's dirty and probably has germs," I replied.

At this point, my daughter looked at me with total admiration and asked, "Mama, how do you know all this stuff? You are so smart."

I was thinking quickly. "All moms know this stuff. It's on the Mama Test. You have to know it, or they don't let you be a Mama."

We walked along in silence for two or three minutes, but she was evidently pondering this new information. "Oh... I get it!" she beamed, "So if you don't pass the test, you have to be the dad."

''Exactly," I replied back with a big smile on my face.




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