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“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”  Lewis Carroll

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”  Emilie Buchwald

“Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.”  Garrison Keillor

Oh, I hope I was really listening. Not that distracted listening, lost in other thoughts, half listening. But, really listening.