PrincipledMom™

...about that game show bothers me. To see a grown man looking pitiful, not knowing the answer and hoping a kid does, just didn't sit well with me. Grown-ups looking to children for answers isn't my idea of good television. Or good family harmony.

And this thing of having lots of facts at your fingertips. Einstein didn't do that. Don't keep in your head things you can easily look up. The goal is not to raise an encyclopedia, but a child who can look things up in one, and then skillfully apply the knowledge he finds there.

Disjointed, useless facts held together with jokes and smarty pants kids isn't my idea of a good time. Butthen again, what do I know. I'm not a 5th grader.

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