"Mom, don't write me notes and put them on my lunchbox because the other kids don't have that", you said to me, your hand at your side and your big blue eyes looking up at me.
The note said "I love you, love Momma". I smiled when I taped it to your lunchbox that morning and the last thought on my mind was that you'd be worried about trying to be like the other kids.
I talked to you about how it's not always good to be like everybody else. Peer pressure.. at 4?!
And then last night, we were playing Barbies and Ken was naked, it's hard to find a Barbie in this house with all of its clothes on. Taking clothes OFF is an easy fine motor skill. Putting them on is quite difficult, even for adults sometimes. Hence, naked Barbies abound. You looked at me craftily and said "Barbie doesn't need clothes on either" and started to take off her clothes. But this raised my heebie jeebies flag. "No no.. " I said. "Let's leave Barbies clothes on. Girls don't take off their clothes in front of boys". I put a pair of a bigger dolls pants on Ken and you were content. We played a rousing game of Princess Dice and you rolled the dice for Barbie, acting like she was really rolling. Ken won the game.
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