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Welcome to these regular musings, meanderings, wonderings and wanderings by Wendy Priesnitz.    Go Look It Up – May 2, 2006 I was in a home recently where a curious eight-year-old, delighted with the warm spring weather, kept bouncing into the house and asking questions about various flora and fauna. Mom, a trained botanist, refused to answer any of the questions. Instead, she told the child to “go look it up”. I wanted so badly to ask the mother if that is that how she would answer another adult who asked her a question. She probably thought she was encouraging independence or the learning of research skills. Instead, she frustrated and bewildered a child who had an immediate need to know something that she knew her mom already knew. Later, the woman compounded the problem by quizzing the child to see if she had, indeed, looked it up. The child sullenly refused to respond, perhaps, once again, because she knew her mother knew the answer to the question. Posted: 2006/05/02 5:27 PM Return to current blog Comments? Suggestions? Email Us copyright © Wendy Priesnitz 2004-2009

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