Raising a Thinking Child ... So You Don't Have To
For those of you looking for advice on Raising a Thinking Child, "The View" recently featured a segment on just that topic.
In it, newest co-host Sherri Shepherd, a conservative African American actress/comedian/"woman of faith" tells an anecdote about taking her two-year-old son Jeffrey to a "rich white folks' store," where the kid proceeds to have a total meltdown, because Sherri woke him up early from his nap so she could check out the store's sale. Sadly for Sherri, because of Giggle's racial dynamic, she couldn't do what she would normally do to make him stop screaming. As she put it, ever so delicately:
This wasn't a store that looked like they beat the kids. So I had to do as the Romans do when I was in the Roman store.
Sherri, by the way, also isn't sure whether the world is round or flat. She said if her son asked her that question, she'd have to take him to the library to find out. (Hi! Do you have any books about the shape of the earth?) Click on the link at your own risk of having the following thought bounce around your brain for the next few days: How do people like that get to air their opinions every day to the entire world on national television and get paid beaucoup bucks to boot while I languish here in obscurity?
I hope Sherri succeeds in getting her child to think. Because somebody's got to in that family.
Actually, Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar are both very funny. And smart. And non-cringe-y.
Did you know that First Feeding was in the same writing class as Joy Behar, pre-fame-and-fortune? (Hers, not mine. Sigh.)
The View - Raising a Thinking Child [YouTube]
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