Leeny stood in the chicken coop， shovel in hand， a huge grin crinkling her eyes.1 She was not faking it： My 7-year-old was having fun cleaning out the chicken coop. I was happy she was enjoying hersel
Leeny stood in the chicken coop， shovel in hand， a huge grin crinkling her eyes.1 She was not faking it： My 7-year-old was having fun cleaning out the chicken coop. I was happy she was enjoying herself， but I’d meant the chore to be punishment for losing a library book.2 So， was I winning or losing at parenting？
My daughter always has her nose in a book.3 She even took to reading in the car on the long drive to summer camp， which was where she lost the book.
This is the first lost library book in my life. My family has always been overeducated， but we were poor， poor， poor. I didn’t own books. I borrowed books. My library books lived on a specific shelf on my headboard while they were mine， and it pained me when I had to slide them into the return slot at the library.4
However， my daughters have more books now than I owned my whole childhood， and I knowingly contribute to the problem by adding to the stacks.5 So it’s probably my fault that when Leeny realized she had lost the book， she shrugged.
“Sorry. I can’t find it，” she said. “Don’t we just pay for the book？”
“Well， yes.”
“It’s only $20， right？ What’s the big deal？”
The missing library book may have been met with ho-hum ambivalence from her， but it was met with nail-biting panic from me.6 I walked into the library in a deep purple shame to pay for the book as if I had been the one to lose it.
I felt the need to make her feel responsible for the book， but I’m not sure I made the impression I meant to. She has a strong back， a pretty good work ethic， and at the time she was short enough to stand upright inside the filthy7 chicken coop. She agreed to help me clean it in trade for my paying the library fine.8
I thought this idea was very clever because cleaning the coop is a chore I had been avoiding for months. It was summertime， at least， so the chicken poop had dried into a crust instead of the oozing， sucking slime that clung to the floorboards the rest of the year.9 Still， vile dust floated in the dry air， and the smell， while better than it was in April， still had notes of vinegar and rotting garbage.10
But my girl， my animal-loving， book-obsessed mini-me， thought shoveling chicken poop was the most fun she’d had on a Saturday morning in a long time. We laughed. We talked. We installed a new perch11. We chipped baked crud off the floor of the coop.12 Leeny squealed at the chickens running helter-skelter as we cleaned their home.13 She happily flung shovelfuls into the wheelbarrow.14 Then she lovingly spread fresh straw15 over the floor and refilled the food and water dishes.
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