"I don't want to hear another word!" I heard my daughter
scold. I'm thinking,she's awfully strict for a playful
three year old. She rolls her eyes heavenward and sighs
with great disdain. "What am I going to do with you?"
her dolls hear her complain. "Sit down! be still! hold
out your hands! do you have to walk so slow? Pick up your toys! Go brush your teeth! Eat all your carrots! Blow!"
I start to tell her how gentle a mother should be,
when blushingly, I realized she's imitating ME!