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If your kid (I mean your child, not your baby goat) is a pain in the neck, chances are you’ve been buying him or her too many toys. You should have been buying books instead. My parents said “no” to everything except a book. Can I go out and play? No. Can I have some money? No. can I get this book about geology? Yes.

Teach your kid how to ask better questions (also, I don’t know any kids who got hurt reading a book, unless they were reading it while walking home and walked into a lamp post) (okay, that was me): give books.

BTW - the above was the full range of my advice regarding children. I haven’t got anything else.

For kids (baby goats) I can recommend the English translation of Madame Bovary, and the French translation of Moby Dick that begins, “Je m’appelle Ishmael.” (“My name is Ishmael.”)

Posted Thursday, December 14th, 2006 at 10:25 am under rejected cartoons. Feel free to trackback from your own site. All images on newyorkette.com are the intellectual property of Carolita Johnson, and you must ask (and receive) express permission to use them or reproduce them in any way whatsoever.