I grew up in a Mexican household, so I always had to deal with my family’s special way of doing things. One thing that the women in my family used to do involved curing a baby’s hiccups. When a baby gets hiccups, a member of my family (usually a woman) would get a piece of red string, wet it, roll it in a little ball, and put in in the middle of the baby’s forehead. That would make the hiccups stop. I never knew this was considered “weird” to other people until I was in the second grade and I visited a friend’s house. My friend had a baby sister. When we were eating a snack, the baby started to get hiccups and to stop the hiccups, my friend’s mom gave the baby a tiny drink of water. Naturally, I was very confused and I asked my friend’s mom
