How To Break Your Child's Heart

This was going to be a post about how we broke our daughters heart by making her give up her binky (pacifier for you non-parents out there).

Basically, a couple of days after we got home from vacation we noticed that her binky was about to break and if broke while she slept, she could choke. Of course we noticed just as she was getting ready for bed (the only time she uses her binky). We explained that she couldn't use it, gave her options- use it until fall asleep, then the Binky-Fairy comes, offered to take her to Build-a-Bear, and put binky inside the bear. The whole time, all three of us are crying. She refuses all that and all she wants to do is throw it away. It was breaking out heart to watch her cry and cry as she drops her binky in the kitchen garbage.

The point of this is to focus on what a resilient daughter I have. As I wrote earlier, she was a perfect angel during our crappy travel day. And after the tears were shed and we went upstairs to read, she was in a good mood. She hasn't asked us for it since.

We are very lucky.