The Rule · Question 8 of 26
Should there be a limit — ten strawberries each?
Your street shares a strawberry patch behind the houses. Anyone can pick as many as they like. This summer the plants are stripped bare by breakfast, and the grown-ups have asked you kids to decide what to do.
What earns a point in this world: Names someone the rule lands on who isn't in the room.
Set a limit!
Reasons a child might give
- If nobody stops, there'll be none left for anyone.
- Ten each is still plenty, and it lasts all summer.
- The kid who wakes up last shouldn't get nothing.
Anyone can pick!
Reasons a child might give
- Nobody owns them. Why should anyone be told how many to take?
- Who's going to count? It'll turn into a fight.
- The person who gets up early and picks deserves them.
Debate this one against an opponent that argues back.
Your child picks a side. Quill takes the other and answers what they actually said, in words a seven-year-old can read. A room of 20 moves only for a reason — and the idea behind the story is named at the end, once the debate is over. Ages 5–12.
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