Toddlers

I’m not yet lucky to have been blessed with a bawling, demanding, irrational bundle of overly-energetic joy. But this advice will stay with me until I have one:

Suspend all thought of embarrassment and do what you have to do to get things down. My daughter will only let the cat brush her teeth, so I have to hold a struggling cat under one arm while trying to brush them, but making it look like the cat was doing it.

Genius. The child, that is. Not the mother.