As Jacinta brushed Tina-the-three-year-old’s teeth tonight, Tina explained that “I have spiders in my mouth.”
This matter-of-fact pronouncement was startling and indeed alarming–at her age, she might well have done the unthinkable–until her sister provided the backstory. Teresa the five-year-old had explained to Tina that we have to brush our teeth to get rid of the bugs in our mouth.
And for Tina, bugs = spiders.
