Edible Words

Those of you who have had children, or who know children, will know that they go through various stages in their early years. There's learning to crawl. Then learning to walk. Learning to talk comes some time around then, although that doesn't happen all at once. First, there are noises that vaguely resemble certain words we use every day, but you can't be sure if you've heard correctly. Then there are single words: mummy, daddy, pudding, bath. Then those words get strung together in twos and threes: more pudding. Then you get short sentences. And at some point, most children go through the stage of asking: "Why?" To everything. And the chances are that your answers will be replied to with another why, and another one, until you get pushed back so far you just don't know the answers any more.