Shouting Out Feelings about Covid-19

It's been such a long, long time since life was normal. And today, with the surging cases (again), the hope of this virus situation ending soon dwindled into non-existance... We were all frustrated, including my 7 year old. As a happy-go-lucky child, she can usually find fun things to do. But that doesn't mean she …

The Strongest Spell

It's about the Nth time that S said "I can't do it" to every single little thing that she only tried once. I've been trying to nudge her here and there about sticking with it to find a solution instead of keep repeating "I can't." Here she said it again... I had to think of …

Mommy Is the Tooth fairy

A couple months ago, when S lost her first tooth, she was all excited about getting a few shiny coins and a letter from the tooth fairy. She put her tooth in a nice little plastic bag and wrote a thank you note to tooth fairy. She waited as long as she could at night …

Is Santa Real?

One day S asked me about whether Santa is real again. She said, "Mommy, I know witches are not real. Fairies are probably not real, either, because nobody can be that small. But what about Santa? Is Santa real? Or is he like tooth fairy, just mommy pretending?" I was doing dishes and, on hearing …

“Mommy, why do you like to buy me Asian looking dolls?”

Now to start with, my daughter has quite a multicultural and multi-racial collection, from Lego figures to Barbies to bigger dolls. She loves dolls. And among each size, she has a couple of Asian looking dolls. When she asked for a set of "Spirit Riding Free" horses and dolls for her birthday a couple of …