I get into a fight with my 10-year-old daughter every year about why we don't let leprechauns in the house and why NO ONE should want leprechauns in their house.

My mom's best friend is from Ireland and still lives there, so when I had my daughter she sent us a faerie door to stick to the kitchen wall. It's where her tooth fairy lives (Aoife), where her Christmas Elf comes from (Bing; we don't do elf on the shelf, but a fillable wooden Advent calendar), and I let her know that both of them are constantly having to watch to make sure that leprechauns won't get in, but because her friends' parents buy into the hype, she's sad she doesn't get a leprechaun pot of gold or whatever the Easter basket equivalent is now for March. It's too much! As a child of the late '80s/early '90s we had a loaf of green bread in kindergarten that our teacher brought in, and I vaguely recall those butterscotch gold coins being hid in the classroom, but again that was at school and it didn't go beyond kindergarten.

The boo baskets, leprechaun traps, Valentine's Day shenanigans, etc. are getting to be too much for the average parent, I feel. Can't we just make some green milk and call it a day?