The Saturday Evening Post

Editor's Letter

AREN'T YOU CURIOUS?

Why, Dad?” I have no idea how many times my daughter bombarded me with questions about everything under the sun. Why is the moon round? How do airplanes stay in the air? Where do squirrels sleep? Do fish swim when they're asleep? What are shadows made from?

As any parent knows, children ask questions all the time. Harvard child psychologist and author Paul Harris estimates that kids ask around 40,000 questions between the ages of 2

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