Flower Sticker

Beautiful Saturday morning. Driving Sienna to her ballet class and passing by the library.

Mommy: Hey, Sienna, guess what we forgot?
Sienna: Books! Mommy, we forgot books!
Sienna: (Pause) Ok, Mommy, you drop me off for my ballet. You go home and get books. You return the books to the library. You come to get me, ok?
Mommy: I don't want to go home.
Sienna: (Pause) Mommy, you are not getting a flower sticker from me... I got one yesterday from Mrs Ahmed.
Mommy: (Almost forgot the context) Why?
Sienna: Because you don't want to return books, Mommy.

My advice to myself and others trying: when you have a daughter like this, you don't try to be a perfect Mom. Just be yourself and let her be herself.