Special Uncle facilitates a fresh perspective.
One wonders whether the frequent realignment of the kiddle point of view, literally, has an impact on their capacity to conceptualize a broad range of possibilities? That, and the tablula rasa brain. Buddhists call it “beginner’s mind,” and revere it. In her lecture on beginner’s mind, Abbess Zenkei Blanche Hartman cites this gem from Suzuki Roshi: “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s there are few.”
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Lesbian Dad is written by a parent who answers to the name "Baba" and works toward a world in which amor does indeed vincit omnia. 
My partner bought me a copy of The Art of Seeing Sideways last year for Christmas. I love using it to spark new creative ideas, and it’s a great source of random knowledge.
They say that the two-year-old who sees a parent suddenly float to the ceiling will be momentarily surprised, and then accept it as just one more thing that happens in the world. Understanding the reaction of any other (older) people in the room would prove much more difficult.
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