No, seriously. Here’s the situation. My youngest gets sent home with a book each day to help with his reading; and yesterday’s book involved a bear who had a magic pot. He’d say a phrase, get a pot full of maple syrup, then say another phrase (“Thank you, pot,” or something like that) and the pot would stop making syrup. So the bear’s sister gets the pot, utters the first phrase, but doesn’t remember the second phrase. The pot overflows the town until the first bear can show up and turn off the flow. Continue reading So now my kids’ homework literally requires Thaumatology 101.