Re: Objectionable Material for Children

[Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten]

Julia Thompson schreef:

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

Isn't that where the internet comes into play? That's probably what it was developed
for. Some poor tormented parent looking for a way to answer all the questions a kid
can come up with?. ;o)

Sonja