This article was originally published in Seven Days’ monthly parenting magazine, Kids VT.

This article appears in Kids VT, August 2019.

Mary Ann Lickteig is a feature writer at Seven Days. She has worked as a reporter for the Burlington Free Press, the Des Moines Register and the Associated Press’ San Francisco bureau. Reporting has taken her to Broadway; to the Vermont Sheep & Goat Association’s annual meeting; to Dot’s Market & Deli in Burlington; and to Lyric Theatre’s costume closet, where she proudly bagged the quote “How many Winkie coats do you really need?”