I also try to customize every opportunity to teach my children that there is almost always something beyond the obvious; that there is something else going on besides what they see in front of them.”Snakes shed their skin because they need to renew themselves,” I explained. As is so often the case in my family, the original subject leads to another and another, until we are discussing something quite different.

我也利用一切机会教给孩子们知道任何事物不单有其表像，更有其深层原因的含义。 我解释说：”蛇为了获得新生，所以要蜕皮。”正如我家常常出现的情况，最初的话题会引出其它一个又一个新问题，直到我们谈论的内容与最初的毫不沾边为止。