You know how kids often mimic their parents when they’re playing? It’s part of how they learn. They cook pretend meals in their toy kitchens, they use dry rags to pretend they’re dusting or cleaning floors, they push a play vacuum around the floor. One very common pretend game they do is to play Mommy or Daddy (or in the case of my girls you get Hayley playing the mother while Breanna gets stuck being the father). Kids will take a little plastic stroller, find their favorite doll (or stuffed animal), maybe even dress it up, stick it in the stroller and push it all around the place.

Hayley used to do that. She used to even enjoy taking the stroller with her dolls to the park, slowly pushing her way along the sidewalk like a real little Mommy.

Breanna?

Apparently Breanna is a homeless person, with all that’s left of her worldly belongings stuffed into her stroller like a shopping cart, wheeling it wherever she goes.