My 10-year-old daughter always rushed to the bathroom as soon as she came home from school. When I asked, “Why do you always take a bath right away?” she smiled and said, “I just like to be clean.” However, one day while cleaning the drain, I found something. The moment I saw it, my whole body started trembling, and I immediately…
“Mrs. Carter,” she said quietly, “could you come to the school right away?”
Something inside me dropped so fast it was almost physical.
“Why?” I asked. “What’s going on?”
Another pause.
Then, in a voice I will never forget for the rest of my life, she said, “Because you’re not the first parent to ask why a child keeps rushing home to bathe.”
