Read the excerpt from “The Girl Who Silenced the World for Five Minutes.” Parents should be able to comfort their children by saying, "Everything's going to be alright," "We're doing the best we can," and "It's not the end of the world."

But I don't think you can say that to us anymore. Are we even on your list of priorities?

The purpose of Suzuki’s question is to challenge listeners to

think of how their actions affect their children.
think of new sayings to comfort their children.
spend more quality time with their children.
spend more time comforting their children.

Recall that in one condition of the experiment conducted by stasser and titus (1985) about student council president candidates, all group members had access to the same information, and that in another condition, members had unique information that other group members didn't know. in the second (unshared information) condition, the group made a worse decision than in the first (shared information) condition. this occurred because groups seldom can agree on who is most expert. focus discussion on the information that all members know. often ignore dissenting opinions. avoid differences of opinion, given conformity pressures.