I was thinking about The Talk again the other day. Most of us will probably have not just one but several “talks” with our kids about serious subjects over the years, starting when they’re very little. And sometimes, we freak out a little. Usually, The Talk (whichever one it is) is triggered by a question. How do babies get inside mommies? Why is that man lying on the sidewalk? How come Shoshi has a different skin colour from her parents? Some of us freak out. We don’t answer… or, worse, we over-answer, giving them not only more information than they can handle at their current stage of development, but letting them know they’ve hit a nerve, shaken you up, freaked you out. So I thought of a great analogy. When you get a question on a tough topic that freaks you out, think about foreign languages. Imagine your child overheard a parent and child speaking in a foreign language. She asks, “How come I can’t understand what they’re saying?” You say, “Because they’re speak