ABSTRACT

By way of introduction to this chapter, consider the reasoning of two people. First imagine a child pretending that a banana is a telephone. The child holds the banana like a telephone, talks into it, and then hands it off to her mother saying, “You talk to Daddy!”. Now think about a parent whose child is throwing a temper tantrum in a toy store. The exasperated parent considers ways in which the day could have been different so as to have avoided the scene now playing out in front of her (e.g. if only the parent had been more patient, if only the child had had a longer nap, if only the parent had just driven past the toy store).