Friday, May 22, 2015

"It said his favorite thing that I make are cookies; I’ve never actually made cookies"

When your elementary school children answer questions about your favorite things:
Anyway, I asked him why he made so many things up, and what he said was devastating: He said he didn’t know the answers. I am normally someone who feels the upper ranges of working mother guilt. This made me take to my bed.

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But the one you’re contacting me about is the one I posted on Twitter. It was my 4-year-old’s, which included many of the same questions. His answers, while not wholly inaccurate, were problematic just the same.