[Hershovitz] seems to me needlessly insulting to his children.

You’ll certainly learn much, or be reminded of much.

Ultimately, Hershovitz's approach, in betting on his children's endless capacity to ask trenchant questions, has a bittersweet aspect — it's at once like faith and doubt. Rex and Hank's childhood years are finite. The portal to their seemingly infinite aptitude for wonder may close once they reach adulthood. Nevertheless, Hershovitz reminds parents to embrace our children's 'strangeness' as long as we can, and maybe in the process find our way back to the questing child-philosopher within us..

Hershovitz’s book helps place this normal part of the developmental process in a philosophical context, highlighting the ways your kids’ sometimes awesome and sometimes annoying questions make them tiny versions of Socrates and Sartre.

Hershovitz mixes wit and wisdom in this thoroughly enjoyable philosophical tour.

The around-the-house scenes and conversations he presents are equal parts hilarious and profound.