Confab By Ian Fazier Analysis

Have you ever had a “conference” with your family? Sitting in the kitchen or living room and talk about important things in a family. The article I read for this assignment, “CONFAB” by Ian Frazier, talks about having a conversation about something important with children. At first, he begins his article dealing with having conversations with kids. He mentions that making time to have conversations with kids is important. The author himself once had a confab in his family and he discovered many surprising ideas from his children. After they finish their confab, children started to speak about many things such as Alfred Hitchcock had removed his navel by surgery, whether a bee needs its whole body only to carry the ball when playing baseball, and so forth. Moreover, these words let other children speak of very interesting questions. For example, one child wonders if dinosaurs have butts or not and other child asks if the author knows that once there was a person who draw “Mona Lisa” on burnt bread. …show more content…
As the author mentions, “The wheels in their heads are always turning” (37). The author had his own list, which includes his children’s questions. Most of them are kinds of general ones, but one child had questioned that exceeds the list. A child asked the author if he could tell which nose the child just had picked. When the author had this question, he had to make a new list of questions because the question of nose did not fit in the first list. Moreover, a child asked a question that the author could never fit in any list that he could think