Episodes in the Children's Garden 2010/01/12

Catching Monsters

WE’VE HAD MICE IN THE HOUSE THIS WINTER.

My daughter Emma, who is four and a half years old, caught me baiting a trap. So I explained how the mice are attracted to the peanut butter on the trap, how it snaps and catches the mice, and that I didn’t want her to touch the trap—or tell her younger brother Quinn about it.

A short while later, we were working in the yard when Emma left. Seeing her scurry to the house and back with some newspaper, I was curious what was up. Scattered under a spruce tree were balls of scrunched up newspaper.

“What are you doing, Emma?” I asked.

“Catching monsters,” she replied.

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