Toys and the truth

For years my five year old son thought toys simply appeared in our home, materializing out of thin air and good behaviour.  I would pick things up for him, stash them, and bring them out when it seemed we needed a new distraction, or a happy reward. Oh, sure, I took him shopping.  As a baby, he couldn’t keep track of what he’d seen in a store and what appeared at home.  When he was a toddler, I explained that the toys...