What Should Danny Do?

Gasp. A masterpiece. A “choose your own adventure” book aimed at the preschool set, featuring a mundane day of a little boy and his younger brother. The usual annoyances and irritations of childhood ensue (wrong plate; wanting to play with the same toy; falling over your feet and destroying the lemonade stand). The reader is then asked to choose. TO CHOOSE, do you hear me. Do you react with the more typical RAGE AND AGGRESSION AND DESPAIR?! Or do you channel your tiny inner Buddha and say “ahimsa ahimsa no prob mom”.

FWIW my kid chose attack/despair every time - which ends with Danny having a terrible day indeed - and then was like, “but i wanna see what happens everywhere else in the book?” AH HAAAAA, the great lesson is upon us! Same choices = same story, my child!! It was revelatory (and very difficult) for them to choose the Buddha route. I could see the brain gears turning. WONDERFUL. Thank you, book.