What happens when your kid looks you in the eye and asks a very direct question about the Tooth Fairy? 👀

Full disclaimer – don’t listen to this one with your kids around unless they’re already in on the magic and how it is shared. We’d hate to be the ones to spoil any childhood wonder ahead of schedule!

This week, we’re talking about those moments when our kids start asking bigger questions—and we’re not always sure how much they’re ready to know. We get into childhood magic, telling the truth, growing up, and figuring out how to let the cultural magic, rituals, and myths of childhood evolve without losing what made it special in the first place.

Plus, we talk about:

• Navigating those very direct questions from perceptive little people
• How to balance honesty with preserving a little childhood wonder
• What happens when siblings are at different stages of figuring things out
• Santa, holiday traditions, and why the magic can look different from family to family
• Creating new traditions as kids grow
• Chocolate hummus, sneaky vegetables, and other parenting “magic”
• Preschool, kindergarten readiness, and resisting the urge to turn every parenting moment into homework

Because sometimes the hardest part of parenting is realizing your kid is growing up—and figuring out how to grow right along with them. We hope you and yours never fully outgrow childhood magic and, instead, you become part of the wonder-machine!❤️

Recorded in the Such-N-Such Media Studios at Liberty Plaza in downtown Winston-Salem, we are produced by Tim Beeman for Such-N-Such Media. Theme music is by Doug Davis.

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