12 Things Doctor Who Has Taught You Better Than Your Parents
8. Listen!
Wouldn't the world be less of a chaotic, roiling mess, filled with people shouting, yelling, screaming, murmuring, whispering, stomping, scuffling, chomping, chewing and swallowing if everyone would just pause for one blessed moment and listen?! Sadly, the only way to achieve such a feat would be to splinter the planet into chunks of orbiting matter, leaving only the impenetrable silence of outer space... Anyway! After hearing the Doctor's unsettling theory of a monster concealed in the shadows, prickling the hairs on your neck with its wheezing breath and listening intently to every word you utter, 5 year olds will be more inclined to remain attentive during a maths lesson. Although the uncharacteristically obedient kindergartners may appear to be listening to the rules of simple addition and subtraction, they're actually straining to catch the soft thump of that footstep following but never passing by...
Anna is an aspiring writer who has an incurable obsession with Doctor Who. When she is not writing about Doctor Who, she's watching favorite episodes and contemplating what to write next. When she's writing about Doctor Who, she anticipates her reward: watching yet another Doctor Who episode. She also manages to read science fiction (especially Ray Bradbury), recite lines from Shakespeare's Macbeth, and make terrible puns in her free time (she likes to imagine she has great puntential, though)
