At Sunday dinner at my husbandâs parentsâ house, my six-year-old climbed into my lap and whispered, âDonât tell Grandma I told you about the closet.â
I wiped her face and told her to finish her vegetables. My mother-in-law chuckled, remarking that young children often invent things. She still had no idea that forty-eight hours later, her home address would pop up across my work headset. “Kids simply make things up, sweetheart,” she said, directing the comment at me rather than…