Underestimating the value of parents as children's primary teachers.

I was recently asked by an I-device parent when I will send DS23mo to preschool to "learn something." Funny, that assumption that preschool has exclusive licence for enabling learning.

Parents are merely big sacs of money and food, just glorified ATM-feed trough hybrids, really. Why, what marginal benefit might I provide over, say, a steel drum, a pile of potatoes, and a $20 bill? Or so the thinking goes.

My answer? "Isn't that your son licking the Lego display?"

What is to give light must endure burning.