If it's any help, when my own daughter asked about her tooth money, I looked her in the eye, thought about her cognitive development and told her that I won it in a poker game with Spider-Man, a unicorn and Jesus. And I'm sure that with a few more years of therapy, she'll be just fine.
-- NYTimes ethicist Randy Cohen
Another well deserved tip-of-the-hat to Laer.
Posted by Kyer at June 20, 2005 12:03 AM