CAN’T SIT ON ITS LAP
The four-year-old daughter of a busy father had acquired a fixation for the story “The Three Little Pigs,” and demanded that he read it to her night after night. The man, pleased with himself, tape-recorded the story. When the child next asked for it, he simply switched on the playback. This worked for a couple of nights, but then one evening the little girl pushed the storybook at her father. “Now, honey,” he said, “you know how to turn on the recorder by yourself.” “Yes,” she said, “but I can’t sit on its lap!” Nothing can substitute for the parent, not a recorder, not a computer, nothing!
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