WITH KIDS, BASIC HYGIENE IS HARDER THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE

My six-year-old daughter, Norah, was picking her butthole with her right hand, and holding a toothbrush with her left. She was in pink underwear with a green waistband. Sleeping in her underwear, like her older brother, was her new thing.

She was old enough to wipe her own butt without asking me to check it, but at the same time we’d reached this awkward…