No Such Thing as a Stupid Question
How many times have you been standing in the kitchen, up to your elbows in dishwater, damp dishtowel draped over one shoulder, and a pile of last night's dinner dishes teetering precariously on the counter beside you, when one of your children strolls in, rather nonchalantly and says, "Whatcha doin'?" You pause briefly, raise one eyebrow and either a) bite your tongue and smile sweetly, responding, "nothin'...what are you doing?" (This response can be found in the How to be the MOM of the Year manual.) or b) you quip, "Baking a cake! What does it look like I'm doing?" (thus loathing the sound of your own voice coming out of your mouth.) Sarcasm stinks. But that's not the lesson I want to share today...we'll talk about that another day. What I want to address today is the rhetorical questions that people ask. Often we lovingly refer to them as 'stupid' questions. I went to Dictionary.com and looked up the word rhe...