I really don’t need my daughter questioning my abilities as a provider

Everyone is a critic, including my three-year-old daughter.

While I was trying to put Charlie to sleep, my daughter kept entering his room, dragging in a crate full of her baby dolls.

“Clara, I’m giving Charlie a bottle and putting him in his crib. You can’t be here! Just let me get him to sleep!”

“But this house is too small, Daddy,” Clara said with great earnestness. “We don’t have enough rooms. I’m trying to put all my babies to sleep, and I need to use Charlie’s room because all the other rooms have babies already!”

After some back-and-forth, I finally managed to extract her from Charlie’s room. But when I emerged fifteen minutes later, I found babies all over the house and was greeted by a further admonition from my daughter.

“You can’t use the toilet, Daddy. Madeline’s sleeping there because we don’t have enough room for the Madelines. I had to use the bathroom. I can’t believe it.”

I pity the man who marries my daughter.