A Mancala Piece.
Not much unlike a classic marble cut along the diameter and sanded smooth.
We saw him playing with it, and we told him to be careful. We didn’t notice it went missing.
Is that negligence?
Apathy?
Will he develop a complex?
(Hopefully a big one with a tennis court and swimming, but that’s for a different discussion)
Have we failed as parents?
Maybe I’m going overboard on this one, but, it was a difficult pill to swallow (not as hard as the mancala piece, apparently) when I found out that my son had been unsupervised for long enough to eat something inedible.

What’s that? How did we know he swallowed it if we didn’t see him?
Oh - that’s easy.

I just don’t believe how the time flies.
Which reminds me…
Answer this riddle.

Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like ....