Oh, My

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I was making some laundry detergent yesterday and as I was grating the soap, my 18 year old, soon-to-be-college-student, came into the kitchen to investigate. He loves the smell of the soap and leaned in to take a deep sniff. He then picked up a piece that had been grated, opened his mouth and said, "do you dare me mom?"

I said, "Son, I am not one of your friends, I am not daring you to do anything."

He said. "But it smells so good."

I said, "Son, I would think that by now you would have learned that everything is not mouth-worthy."

He gave me that look (he one he's been giving me since he was two years old) that says, "I'm going to do it if you don't stop me," and I shrugged my shoulders.

He dropped a piece in his mouth and then immediately ran to the sink to spit. "Ugh, that's awful." Spit, spit, more moaning and spitting. "Why didn't you stop me, that stuff tastes terrible?"

He leaves for college in 43 days. How will he possibly survive? Where did I go wrong?

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