Three weeks ago, I was preparing a bath for my two-and-a-half year-old toddler. She looks forward to baths now because of the bubbles. The night before, I let her put an empty bubble bath bottle in the tub. But this night, she grabbed a full bottle and poured it into the tub. Her mother, who wouldn’t tell me how much organic bubble bath costs, was unimpressed.
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Something else happened that night. The baby, who largely resisted being rubbed with soap, started to take the bubbles and bathe herself.