Sunday, November 12, 2006

Twenty minutes to bedtime

Yesterday I got Elisabeth ready for bed, and wanted to give her a sense of when it would be bedtime. So I told her, "It is twenty minutes to bedtime." Elisabeth, always ready to haggle over numbers, said,

"No! Five minutes!"
If she's going to be effective in her haggling, she's going to have to master the value of numbers . . .

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