Do you know about the book series from Douglas Wood yet? "What teachers can't do" and "What Santa can't do" etc. He also has one book titled "What dads can't do" and another called "What moms can't do."

Recently, our daughter asked me to make her a cookie - in the shape of a horse. She had seen a show on TV and wanted a giant horse-shaped cookie to eat. She begged me, "Please mama. Please make me a horse cookie!" I stood there trying to think about how I would do that. How? How? My brain froze up. There are a lot of things I can do but making giant horse cookies is not one of them.

I looked at my husband, "Help!"

He went to his computer, printed out a horse image and proceeded to turn my cookie dough into a horse. It actually looked like a horse, too. Not like the massage wad of cookie mush that I had created, in a desperate attempt to create a horse-like figure.

I think I might need to write my own story now: "What daddy's CAN do." They can help mommies create horse cookies in a jam. Among other things, of course. 

(Don't worry, Douglas Wood - I don't actually intend to copy your book series. I have my own book 'thing' going already.)

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Shara Lawrence-Weiss is the owner of Mommy Perks, Personal Child Stories, Early Childhood News and Resources and Kids Perks. She and her husband co-own Pine Media. Shara has a background in education, early childhood, nanny work, published freelance, marketing and special needs.