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23 BAY AREA NEWS GROUP KIDS R obertF.Kennedy and his wife, Ethel, had 11 children, so when Bobby brought crowds to their feet during the 1968 presidential cam - paign with the line that some "see things as they are and say, why," he knew what he was talking about. At the very moment kids are learning to say the darnedest things, curiosity connects to con - versation, and the question begins to fly — "Why?" This interrogatory typically commences around the time rear-facing car seats get turned around and toddlers discover they have a captive audience in the front seat. Girls and boys seem equally adept at lobbing these high-pitched grenades, as both are born with the Why Chromosome. It is a single word, just one syllable, and yet from the mouths of babes it often is so elongated that each letter seems to stand on its own. When posed by, say, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "why" sets up a specific query: "Why did the plaintiff waive his rights?" But from a 3-year-old with an active imagination and all sorts of time, "why" can feel like a finger repeat - edly poking you in your chest. DRIVINGOURDAUGHTER, Nicole, to day care, I proffer a gentle warning. "I'm going to roll up your win- dow now, honey." "Why?" "I don't want it to get too windy on you." "Whyyy?" MalcolmLennox,almost2, pictured here and on the opening page, piles onto his sister, Ella, 5, and brother, Cameron, 8, on their trampoline at home in Saratoga.