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the refrigerator will be mysteriously raided that night. Slap him a bit? He'll get moody and his grades will be worse than ever. Resort to physical violence with a good hiding? He'11 denounce you to the school principal as a beast and every neighbor in the block will give you funny looks for months. The grades? As bad as ever. Or you try the nice approach and buy him an expensive toy, something useful to stimulate his interest in serious matters. A microscope perhaps? He'll trade it next day at school for two thousand pictures of Batman. Did anybody say "impressionable"?

Allright. Let's pretend the kid is impression- able. After all, he runs around the house like an Indian because he sees cowboy pictures. In that case let's try to impress him with the fact that daddy is tired at night and would like a bit of peace, Or that mommy works hard all day and perhaps she might like a bit of help like taking the garbage out or staightening up his own room... Or that ex- penses have been heavy this month and he should stop demanding those extra ten dollars to buy a Mickey Mantle bat (autographed yet)...Let's be honest and think for a moment if we have ever met this incredible child who is actually impressed by the above reasons. It's like trying to impress the police officer that we didn't see the red light.

So where are we now? Can we possible argue that seeing daddy in dresses is going to make any impression on the little brat? If he's between the ages of 5 and 10, he'll think dad is practicing to join the FBI or the CIA for some highly secret assignment. If he is past 10 he'll think dad is a bit nuts (he's always felt a little bit this way any how), or he'll think mom is punishing dad for something naughty she caught him doing. Or again he may sort of like the idea of having dad dressed that way. Mom puts him to work doing the dishes and the kid is free to watch television. Or dad shows an astonishing degree of meekness and becomes

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