Listening and Really Hearing

We’ve all had children — ours or those belonging to others — ask odd, challenging, or awkward questions.Some of them are funny. I once had a first grader ask me how to spell smorning. Huh? Smorning?”Can you use that in a sentence for me?” I asked.She sighed.”The smorning, I ate pancakes.””Oh, okay! This. Morning. Two separate words.”Easy. Done.There are the more difficult questions teenagers ask. I usually say, “Are you sure you want to know this? Because there is no way to erase this mental image from your brain once I tell …

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