
Bathtime Interrogation Techniques
snapshots of parenting
Evening bathtime is one of the more joyous moments of parenting — at least now, that the twins are five apiece. They love it and have gotten fairly self-sufficient at the functional aspect of the affair.
The other night, I leave them alone for a minute, and come back to see the boy holding a washcloth draped over his face, and the girl pouring warm water over it from an empty shampoo bottle.
“Abi!” I admonish her playfully, “Stop waterboarding your brother!”