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A. went to school, but even though she knew that she was supposed to go with the sitter after school, she protested. So the sitter brought her home and I brought the sitter up to date on recent events (basically, the weird conversation we had with A. at Julie's Place on Thursday and subsequent efforts to try to figure out ways to help get A. back to her usual cheerful self).
It was a tough weekend. The lead singer from Linkin Park committed suicide, and T. now reads well enough and listens to the news bits on Hits 1 on SiriusXM (which you can now listen to on Alexa) to be aware of that fact. And to ask lots and lots and lots of questions about that. That's fine; T. isn't looking to do anything like that, but he wants to understand what words mean and how the world works and that translates into a whole lot of somewhat terrifying questions. I answered some of them. I told him I didn't know -- and didn't want to know -- the answers to others. And I tried to help him understand that if he goes around asking these kinds of questions of other people, they might respond very emotionally and it could be very unpleasant all around. I don't tell him _not_ to ask questions, because he'll just turn around and ask why not to ask the questions. And I really don't need him going around telling everyone for the next several days that his mother has told him not to ask other people questions about suicide (or whatever) and why did she do that? (If you think this is an easy thing to solve with some other Rule, you don't know T.)
It was a tough weekend. The lead singer from Linkin Park committed suicide, and T. now reads well enough and listens to the news bits on Hits 1 on SiriusXM (which you can now listen to on Alexa) to be aware of that fact. And to ask lots and lots and lots of questions about that. That's fine; T. isn't looking to do anything like that, but he wants to understand what words mean and how the world works and that translates into a whole lot of somewhat terrifying questions. I answered some of them. I told him I didn't know -- and didn't want to know -- the answers to others. And I tried to help him understand that if he goes around asking these kinds of questions of other people, they might respond very emotionally and it could be very unpleasant all around. I don't tell him _not_ to ask questions, because he'll just turn around and ask why not to ask the questions. And I really don't need him going around telling everyone for the next several days that his mother has told him not to ask other people questions about suicide (or whatever) and why did she do that? (If you think this is an easy thing to solve with some other Rule, you don't know T.)