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To: koan who wrote (43750)	11/23/2007 9:51:12 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540924

In some book I read they had the number of words children are exposed to based on the type of family they come from. Children with highly educated mothers are exposed to thousands more words than children in impoverished homes. That's why maternal education used to be such a high predictor for a child's success. Now that highly educated moms are hiring uneducated nannies I'm not so sure what the numbers look like. But my kids were constantly asking me what words meant- all kinds of words. And I loved defining them for my kids. But not all parents are like that. We saw a mom in the store shut her little boy down for asking why monkeys had tails. Rather than saying "I don't know, but we'll look it up later", she said "Quit asking questions." Great thing to say to a kid- not. Hopefully her little boy won't listen to her, but I fear a lot of children DO hear that, and they do listen, and pretty soon they stop asking questions, and quit even thinking questions up.