"In class," she explained, "we talk about the late Victorian era in New Jersey and the rise of the seaside resorts -- Atlantic City, Long Branch.
The U.S. Olympic team employs sports psychologists, too; in an interview, one explained, "We talk about stress and anxiety as being a normal part of the competitive process.
The nature of the conversations during the home visits sometimes included some level of personal sharing and one mother explained, "We talk about life.
"The screaming is the important part," Salaton explained, when we talked about it later, adding, "We are not changing our culture, we are ending a harmful practice".
And including Drew, who was shattered by the performance, as he tried to explain when we talked about it later over tea.
But "the most important safety protection you can give a child," Sandseter explained when we talked, "is to let them take... risks".
But Daft Punk "was enamored by the freestyle nature of Ableton [Live]." Explains Phillips, "We talked long and hard about giving them the ability to freestyle through the show, and what kind of communication technology we would use to sync light and video to the music.
I hadn't written any for almost 20 years," Lively explains as we talk in front of another bird picture – this one painted in oils by her aunt Rachel Reckitt – on the wall of her north-London sitting room.
P.S. Cinemabilia isn't there anymore; but here's the filmmaker, the former impresario of the Two Boots Pioneer theatre, and still-impresario of the Two Boots pizza empire, Phil Hartman, on the store (from a 2008 interview in the New York Press by Matt Harvey): "In '74, I got a job at a movie book store called Cinemabilia," Hartman explains as we talk.
Feminism -- if it's explained and we talk about it enough -- can be very positive for everybody.
