Talk:Penpal/@comment-25280329-20140808125336

Ok, there's a few things that I'm unclear about.

1. I am older than the author and have a child that has recently been through the author's younger years. It seems strange to me that a 5-6 year old child would be that developed at that age to be able to write the way he did in "Balloons" and was even allowed to roam free for hours on end (i.e. swimming in the lake, exploring the woods, etc.) unsupervised. How many 5 year olds can just swim in a lake without adult supervision?

2. Josh's dad finds Josh and the man in a hole with a shovel, however, Josh's dad was responsible for filling in the hole. Does he not remember that this was the exact location that he filled in in the recent past? Why is he questioning what is in the hole (i.e. tree roots, etc.) if he was the one to see it when it was still an empty hole? I could understand if it was a totally separate location that he had never been to, but according to the text that isn't the case.

Please help me with this if you have any insight.