I've become obsessed with Mac's loose tooth. The thing is hanging by a thread, and he won't let me pull it and he won't pull it himself. He also won't let Dan pull it. He's been waiting forever to lose a tooth. I feel like I'd be doing him a big fat favor if I just lightly tugged on it. But, no.
"Mac won't let me pull out his tooth," I told Mary.
"I mean," said Mary, who is a social worker in grad school for her MSW, "my teacher would say the question is, 'Why do you want to pull it out?'"
"I just really want to," I said.
Silence.
"It's not about power and control," I continued. "And since he says I can't, I don't force him." I paused. "I don't like hold his mouth open and make him let me."
"Well, that's good," she said.
I still feel like she was thinking there was something clinically significant about my tooth-pulling aspirations. Maybe that's indeed the case. I do think about it every time I look at his little face.
5 comments:
I can't wait to hear what happens when it actually comes out!
I don't like to yank on teeth, but I do feel that looking at the dangling tooth in your kid's mouth is kind of hideous. It used to make me feel kind of grossed out. I would offer apples. Sometimes that helped. But those teeth can be pesky.
It would be cool to use the tooth for Twin Tuesday. Hman's toenail just fell off so I can use that as part of the pair. Lost body part?
Wow, that would be EPIC. I'll let you know if I can make this happen. I mean, probably not. He'll probably swallow it to spite me.
I can picture this conversation so perfectly, and it makes me exceedingly happy. Mary is the best deadpanner I know.
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