It reminds me a bit about my family, but maybe in a different way. We were allowed to challenge everything (even though, my parents had final say). But what I

It reminds me a bit about my family, but maybe in a different way. We were allowed to challenge everything (even though, my parents had final say). But what I think was great about my parents was that we were encouraged to find out the answers to any questions we had. It was pre-internet time, so it basically was looking something up on a dictionary or on the Encyclopedia Brittanica (a Spanish language version my parents still have today), many times it was rather hard to figure something out. No question left unanswered, at least as best as we could. Even if it meant that my dad went out and bought me a book about basic electricity (Ohms law and such) just to give to me because I wanted to know something. That care about knowledge and logic (my mom was great at logical arguments and she knows a lot of crap, seriously) helped me succeed. I hope I'm doing as good a job with my kids (ideally even better). Raising people is weird and can be so fulfilling.