was focused on reality and imagination. Other kids were doing Science Fair and the Mind Olympics. It was then that people started to carefully probe and delve into friends and enemies. It was also then that people got more into quasi-mechanics and aliens. And the term age appropriate came up alot.
"Ma, how long did it take me to walk across the world?"
"Don't call me that." With multiple children our Mom felt compelled to be diplomatic about most of what she said. Her first answer to almost any can I, can I was usually no. "She'll come around," one of us would try and maintain thr optimism (hope) for the one having a crisis of authority. If she didn't there were options before "defiance".
"I'm watching my show," a boy slurped the cereal. "Let's teach," head jerk at, "to ask why".
Sometimes the whys became an opera.
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