parenting

If you have children, you will identify with this.

Quite often, when I tell my kids to do something, they respond: "WHY?" Now I don't want to stifle their inquisitiveness, but I know that a sincere quest for knowledge is not the motive for their question.

When my four-year-old daughter asks "why" she should go to bed, her aim is to call my judgment into question. She wants me to offer a rationale for my decision so that she can argue with that rationale. Continue reading...