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The Monster in the Closet
A Father-to-be's Fears Go Bump in the Night
By Mark Stackpole
I have a responsibility to protect my child, and I intend to honor it with every fiber of my being. The hardest part of this responsibility is the realization that my protection of her can never be complete, no matter how hard I try. Life is full of skinned knees, bumps, bruises and tears. I will try to prevent them whenever I can, but perhaps more importantly, I have to find a way to teach her how to deal with them when they inevitably occur. And I'm scared that I will not be up to that particular task.
Maybe my old monster will return to Corinne's closet (if he can find the space) and make his nightly visits, not quite hidden by the shadows in her room. It will be good to see him again and not be afraid this time. It will be even better to guarantee my daughter that pulling the covers over her head will provide all the protection that she needs. Daddy knows how to fix this one.
There are no monsters in my own closet anymore, but tonight, I am going to pull the covers over my head one more time, just for the heck of it. After all, there are still a lot of things out there that Daddy doesn't know how to fix. And those are my biggest fears of all.
Yeah, as scary as that monster used to be, I sure do miss him now.
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