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Every evening at bedtime, I pick one of my 4-year-old's numerous kitty stuffed animals and do an extended call-and-response of meows and "I love yous" in high-pitched feline voices. Even though she has so many plush toys perched next to her she can barely fit on the bed, I know every single animal's name. Kiki, Giselle, Lottie, Leona and Hope are the current favorites, and I know the order that she wants them arranged and trotted out during our extended bedtime ritual. |
This perhaps seems like a small and insignificant part of my parenting day, but it always makes me proud, because it tells my daughter: I hear you. Because you are 4, your kitties are essential to you, and so they're important to me, too. |
For Mother's Day, we commissioned a series of essays on this theme: moms saying something nice about themselves, for once. Especially this year, it seems as if all mothers do is talk about our perceived failures: how we're failing at remote schooling, or making the wrong choices for our kids when all the options are bad, or not being the "fun mom." |
Finally, there's Lisa Thompson's review of the graphic novel "Allergic," written by Megan Wagner Lloyd and illustrated by Michelle Mee Nutter, about a girl named Maggie who cannot get a puppy, because of her severe allergies. I will definitely be buying this one for my 8-year-old, who has tree nut allergies and also is extremely jealous of her friends who got pandemic puppies (it's not happening in this house, honey). |
P.S. We are continuing the Primal Scream project, which looks at the experience of parenting during the past year, and we want to hear from you if you have made major life changes because of the pandemic. That could mean moving to a new location, becoming more or less ambitious at work, developing an entirely new point of view on motherhood or deciding to have that second kid … or not. |
Please email us here if you would like to be interviewed for this follow up, and include your name, age, location and a paragraph about what has changed for you. We will not publish anything without permission. |
| Parenting can be a grind. Let's celebrate the tiny victories. |
After running out of ideas and struggling to get my 2-year-old to sit the right way in her car seat, I randomly asked her, "What are my eyebrows doing!?" She was quite intrigued and turned around to watch as I made my eyebrows do a funky dance of sorts. I've never buckled her in so easily before!— Bailey Wright, Fort Collins, Colo. |
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