Re: Objectionable Material for Children

[Joshua Bell]

[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"

My plan for our as-yet hypothetical child(ren) is to answer "why?" with an 
excrutiatingly exacting answer (and a trip to the library or web if 
necessary). When I do that to Susan she usually bops me on the head.

Anyone have annecdotes about trying that approach with kids?

Joshua

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