If you’re a parent looking for ways to warn your kids not to play with matches, you could do worse than “If you play with fire, you’ll pee the bed.” Similar admonitions are used around the world, apparently because a child can far better relate to the familiar, embarrassing consequences of bedwetting than the more theoretical danger of fire. This is part of a complete episode.
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