In what is sure to turn out to be a spectacular parenting error, I (Kris) have taught Jacob the most basic technique of effective argumentation:

Here is something that is less likely to turn out to be a parenting error. We are helping Jacob learn to read. Here is Jacob giving a reading from the classic early reading canon. For the record, before we began recording, we watched him figure out what the passage means all by himself--well, with a little help concerning "the".