You Never Asked You Dimm Your Light, Andrew?

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"I'm not going to dim my light so that she doesn't have to put up with that," Andrew says of his younger sister. "She's also excited that Bezus is now in junior highs and none of the teachers at her new school will know that she's Bezus's little sister." He adds: "It was interesting. I am just like young enough relative to my older sisters that there wasn't, I never really had any teachers that like knew them or it had been five or six years since they had encountered one of my sisters"

We've talked about National Treasure Beverly Cleary on the show before, but we haven't spent time with her most indelible character, one Ramona Quimby. Recorded on the eve of Craig's new-dadhood, we're joined by TV critic and parenting expert Kathryn VanArendonk to discuss yard apes, sick days, and how differently the book hits from the other side of the parent/kid divide.

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