Re: Objectionable Material for Children

[Julia Thompson]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> 
> > 
> >  >Still, at least Farenheit is a much better system for everday temperatures
> >  >than Celsius.
> >  
> >  Why?
> >  
> >  
> >  >Also, I would have to say that measuring the height of
> >  >people in feet is far more useful than a bizarre 1.3 metres.
> >  
> >  Again, why?
> >  
> 
> Jeroen, you don't get to practice being the two year old *now*.  You
> have to practice the parental lines.  Friends who have the special
> DNA sequence that parents seem to get at the birth of a child have
> my favorite response...... after two "becauses" for two "whys"......
> "because <mommy/daddy/control figure of choice> is on a power trip"

Does that work when a 3-year-old is demanding that you explain Watergate,
and when the questions get back to the point where you don't know, just
saying "I don't know" just gets the kid more upset?

(No, it wasn't me.  I was almost 6 at the time this came up.)

        Julia