![]() ![]() (And for those parents whose children take the poem too literally, you can always get plastic shatterproof dishes and install a soft rubber kitchen floor. And to my knowledge, my kids are still happy to dry dishes. In defense of this poem, it’s genuinely funny. How Not to Have to Dry the Dishes (apparently for teaching slothfulness and disobedience) And they pressed their school district to ban the book from the school library – and they were successful – albeit briefly. ![]() Apparently, some parents thought the book planted a bad seed in the minds of their young children. We read the fine print on the poster and then looked up why it was banned. “Why would anyone want to ban A Light in the Attic?” was the follow-up question. “What does it mean to ban a book?” they asked. Their baby sitter had given them the book as a gift three years earlier. On the poster are some of their favorite books, including A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein. It was the giant “Banned Books” poster mounted on the wall. I stepped back in the hallway to see what had their attention. On a visit to the ACLU office in San Francisco, my sons Cyrus and Juno, age 11 and 7, stood in the hallway. ![]()
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