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HERE'S WHY.(Why?)(Book review)

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Little Timothy is playing with his older brother Geoffrey, when he comes running to his mother.

"Mommy, Mommy," he starts in. "I was playing with my truck, and then Geoffrey came and he said it was his turn to play with the truck even though it's my truck and then he pushed me."

"Timothy!" his mother says, silencing him. "Don't be a tattletale."

Timothy has heard that phrase--"Don't be a tattletale"--countless times, and it always stops him short. He has offered his mother an eyewitness account of a crime. His mother, furthermore, in no way disputes the truth of his story. Yet what does she do? She rejects it in favor of a simplistic social ...

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