HughRistik comments on On the Care and Feeding of Young Rationalists - Less Wrong

26 Post author: MBlume 13 March 2009 11:48PM

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Comment author: HughRistik 16 March 2009 07:28:22PM 5 points [-]

My mother always asked me, "well, what do you think?"

Comment author: juliawise 09 July 2012 12:24:28AM *  2 points [-]

And its companion, "Hmm, what makes you say that?" If we just answer the question, sometimes we don't get to what the kid was actually wondering about. I'm remembering a six-year-old who asked me if I was going to have babies and how. Upon more questioning, she actually wanted to know if they would be born in a hospital or somewhere else, so I was glad I didn't try to explain sex to her.