The phone rang. As I turned and reached to answer it, and my eyes briefly left my children, my daughter decided to turn over for the very first time in her short life. I quickly grabbed her and hugged him. You are a hero. Now, this wasn't just any cookie.
Every child needs to be a hero sometime.
They need to feel like one. Whether it's because they know that the brownies don't turn out quite as well if they don't help, or that no one hugs quite as snuggly as they do, or that it's lonelier when they're not around, or that they've saved the day when they found your missing keys. They've got to know there's something special about them. Whatever it might be. I caution you to do it carefully, however.