It's very rare that America's Got Talent gets me thinking philosophically about parenting.

But that happened this week.

Our family settled in to watch a recording of this week's episode on Wednesday night. I was the only one who knew about the controversial audition of Josh Orlian, the 12-year-old Jewish boy who told off-color jokes in his stand-up routine, because I'd seen the clip and the subsequent outcry of shonda on Twitter.