My two young girls read lots of fairy books, and I’ve kept the tooth fairy notes and money coming each time. One night while my wife was away, we three went for a night walk up our drive way. There was a stand of bananas with a faint glow of light at its base. It was probably a reflection of the moonlight or the outside house light but both girls froze and both said simultaneously it was probably fairies. I agreed of course, and for days afterwards they would walk by the banana stand but never approach, in order not to disturb the fairies. I feel like one of my duties as a dad is to protect this belief for as long as possible, protect it from anyone else like their Wi-Fi-iPad-connected city cousins from shitting on the idea. As for me, I’ve not seen a fairy, but taking a cursory glance through the many recollections in the “fairy census” taken a few years ago, I’d never claim they don’t exist. I’d like to think they exist. There’s a lot of spirits here in the Philippines and we have a kids book about them, most of them seem like straight outta horror movies, there wasn’t any benevolent ones in the book.
My two young girls read lots of fairy books, and I’ve kept the tooth fairy notes and money coming each time. One night while my wife was away, we three went for a night walk up our drive way. There was a stand of bananas with a faint glow of light at its base. It was probably a reflection of the moonlight or the outside house light but both girls froze and both said simultaneously it was probably fairies. I agreed of course, and for days afterwards they would walk by the banana stand but never approach, in order not to disturb the fairies. I feel like one of my duties as a dad is to protect this belief for as long as possible, protect it from anyone else like their Wi-Fi-iPad-connected city cousins from shitting on the idea. As for me, I’ve not seen a fairy, but taking a cursory glance through the many recollections in the “fairy census” taken a few years ago, I’d never claim they don’t exist. I’d like to think they exist. There’s a lot of spirits here in the Philippines and we have a kids book about them, most of them seem like straight outta horror movies, there wasn’t any benevolent ones in the book.