Dimensions
140 x 213 x 18mm
Don't cross your eyes, or they'll stay like that! Feed a cold, starve a fever! Never run with scissors! Don't look in the microwave while it's running! Is any of it true? If so, how true?
Ken Jennings wants to find out if mother and father always know best. Yes, all those years you were told not to sit too close to the television (you'll hurt your eyes!) or swallow your gum (it stays in your stomach for seven years!) or crack your knuckles (arthritis!) are called into question by our country's leading trivia guru.
Jennings separates myth from fact to debunk a wide variety of parental edicts: no swimming after meals, sit up straight, don't talk to strangers, and so on.
