![]() ![]() Confronted with troublesome coworker? A show you don’t like? Not your panda. As a mantra it proves surprisingly useful. Using criteria not dissimilar to those employed in reality-TV competitions (nose smoothness, back fuzziness), the book arrives finally at the answer: “That’s my panda!” Yet more instructive may be the lesson gleaned from the previous pages - that many of the metaphorical “pandas” you’ll encounter in the board book of life will be, emphatically, not yours. Take, for instance, a book called "That’s Not My Panda." It takes as its premise the possibility that one could have so many pandas that a process of elimination is required to identify which one is yours. Unless you have undertaken serious religious study, this is probably the first time you will engage in the ritualistic rereading of a small group of texts. At some point during the first six months, you begin to internalize the language and lessons of the books you are reading aloud every day. Something happens when you have a baby, and it’s not an event that pediatricians or parenting books prepare you for. ![]()
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