Einstein's Underpants is zany, irreverent and downright absurd - children will love it.
"It is absurd that children like Warren might have to go into residential care at vast cost to the taxpayer because their families cannot pay for housing they need," he said.
She says it's "absurd" that children do not have the same protection from physical punishment as adults.
Even though we consider it an absurd for children to be killed by policemen while playing in front of their houses, we remain silent.
I have an absurd number of children.
In the test, the pineapple story was attributed to Daniel Pinkwater, a popular writer of funny, often absurd tales for children.
I've alerted parents about the use of mobile telephones because it's absurd for young children to have them".
Collecting money for school lunches is a problem that has bedeviled schools since the beginning of the federal school lunch program and is an outcome of an absurd premise: that children must pass a needs test to eat a subsidized school lunch.
At the playground, the opposite rules apply: There you find a bunch of adults all reinforcing in one another the absurd assumption that children should be encouraged to climb to dangerous heights and get themselves down from those heights as fast as they possibly can.
Another significant part of the account, detailing Creangă's education, shows him frustrated by the old methods of teaching, insisting on the absurd image of children learning by heart and chanting elements of Romanian grammar and even whole texts.
It is absurd to admonish children with learning disabilities to "simply try harder," and detrimental and debilitating to cheerlead them along, without acknowledging that in our current school structure they begin at a deficit.
