Hello and welcome back to the Curious Kid podcast. We wish you a very happy new year. If you are listening to this episode on release day, it is January 1st, 2023.

We hope that 2023 is your best year yet.

We sure do. And we are delighted that you're spending a few minutes of the new year with us.

In our house, we have rules.

You probably have some rules you need to follow at your house, too.

One example of a rule, Olivia and Noah follow, is that they need to do their homework

when they return from school

before they get to play. That's not the only rule that Olivia and Noah are supposed to follow.

There are quite a few rules. Also, Olivia and Noah know that they might get punished if they

don't follow the rules. But what about grown-ups? Do we need to follow rules?

And if we do, who makes those rules?

And how do we get punished if we break the rules?

Let's learn all about it.

Mailbag!

Mailbag!

Hi Jacob and Olivia, we are Soleil 8 and Archer 6 from Akron, Ohio. We love your podcast and learning about new things.

Solay is curious about love and foxes, Archer is curious about roads, clothes, how laws are made, and logs.

We hope to hear about one of these things soon. Thank you so much,

Soley and Archer. Wow, that was a great email sent to us almost a full year ago. We can't wait to

finally get curious about laws for Solay and Archer. Laws are really interesting, and many of them are very logical and

reasonable. There are some exceptions, though, and we will discuss a few of those strange laws later.

One strange law is also the answer to our question of the week. The question of the week is,

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