Thanks for coming back - and I agree, there's a range of positions people might take. There's already a range of positions in the comments section - and that's the point of articles like these. If you can create and hold an audience across the political and social spectrum, then you can at least create and police a space for social discussion rather than the normal polarised talking points set to broadcast.

To be fair to the 4 year old, lego is the correct size and shape for most bodily orifices and this is pragmatic and practical learning in action. I'm sure they will grow and develop greater motor skills and better your ears than theirs.

Feel free to pen your thoughts in an article and I'll link it on the bottom of this one. The purpose of the Panopticon is to share views from across a whole range of individuals and you have experiences I don't. You, for example, have lego being pushed into your ear and I remain hatchling free - though also very much caffeinated this afternoon. :o)