Hah!
I would like to follow up my post on "The Dangerous Book for Boys/Daring Book for Girls" phenomenon by pointing out this editorial in the NYT, "Childhood for Dummies", which made me laugh rather a lot: "These books are so clearly not about daredeviltry. They are about ineptitude. They seem to perfectly capture a fear, floating in the culture, that a generation of preoccupied parents has been raising a generation of children full of sophisticated knowledge that is useless when the power goes out or the batteries die."