Much-needed laugh

[miekec]

I love reading Dooce. She is an awesome (and shockingly direct) writer. If you haven't read or heard of her before, she is an ex-mormon, living in Utah (after being fired from her job because she was blogging about her job) and being her own non-mormon self, to the appalled-ment[?] of her parents.
Anyway, for anybody who ever had to endure or had to deal with a 4-5 yr old asking "why":

Dear Leta,

A couple of days ago you turned fifty-four months old. I'm sure that if you were sitting here right now and I told you this you'd ask me why. And I'd say because when you add up all the months you've been alive it totals fifty-four. And then you'd go, why? And I'd say, because that's how math works. And you'd go, but why? And then I'd walk over to the silverware drawer, grab a kebab skewer and shove it through my frontal lobe. Some days there aren't enough sharp objects in the house to help me cope with the multitude of your whys, maybe because there is no answer that will satisfy you, even when that answer is read to you directly from a science textbook. I'm beginning to feel like you're not asking because you genuinely care about the answer but because you're secretly hoping that if you ask it enough times the answer to why? will be "you can have this candy if you will just shut up."

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Note: Surprisingly enough, Karin has not (yet?) gone through this stage. Alex, however, did. I remember a drive from Boston to NJ (6+ hrs) where we literally had to tell him that there was a limit of one (1!) question per minute.

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[zigamorph.livejournal.com]

That's a lot like teaching calculus to college freshmen.