The Mommy Test
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>I was out walking with my then 4 year old daughter. She picked up >something off the ground and started to put it in her mouth. I asked her not to do that.
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>"Why?"
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>"Because it's been laying outside and is dirty and probably has germs."
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>At this point, she looked at me with total admiration and asked, "Wow! How do you know all this stuff?"
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>"Uh," I was thinking quickly, " . . . everyone knows this stuff. Um, >it's on the Mommy test. You have to know it, or they
>don't let you be a Mommy."
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>"Oh."
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>We walked along in silence for 2 or 3 minutes, but she was evidently pondering this new information.
"I get it!" she beamed. "Then if you flunk, you have to be the Daddy."