Friday, June 15, 2007

Everybody's Talking at Me

There are all these activities and classes for kids my son's age. Four year olds can take dance lessons, art lessons, Spanish lessons, swimming lessons, and music lessons. They can play soccer, T-ball, tennis, ice skate, or play basket ball. They can take a gardening class and no doubt there's karate lessons they can sign up for and loads of other enrichment classes of which I'm not aware.
Here's what they really need though: debate classes. Not lessons. Four year olds are natural-born debaters. They just need a forum in which to hone their skills. My son would love nothing more than to talk for two hours straight. In fact, he often does.

song: Everybody's Talking at Me • musical: Harry Nilsson

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