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A conversation, yesterday in the car:
Dragon: Mama, how are mountains made?
Me: Mostly they're made by big sheets of earth pushing each other's edges up. (I demonstrate with my hands)
Dragon: Wait, EARTH makes its own MOUNTAINS?!
Me: Yup.
Dragon: (trips out on that for a minute, then says:) And then how are volcanoes made?
Me: I guess in pretty much the same way, just some mountains end up being volcanoes and some don't. I'm not really sure what the difference is.
Dragon: Oh. Well. And then I know how lava is made.
Me: (surprised) You do? How's that?
Dragon: BY DRAGONS! They take plastic and they put it on fire and they breathe it out of their mouths and it comes down the mountains I mean the volcanoes! And we shouldn't swim in it because if we do we'll die.
What scientific facts have you learned from your kids?
Dragon: Mama, how are mountains made?
Me: Mostly they're made by big sheets of earth pushing each other's edges up. (I demonstrate with my hands)
Dragon: Wait, EARTH makes its own MOUNTAINS?!
Me: Yup.
Dragon: (trips out on that for a minute, then says:) And then how are volcanoes made?
Me: I guess in pretty much the same way, just some mountains end up being volcanoes and some don't. I'm not really sure what the difference is.
Dragon: Oh. Well. And then I know how lava is made.
Me: (surprised) You do? How's that?
Dragon: BY DRAGONS! They take plastic and they put it on fire and they breathe it out of their mouths and it comes down the mountains I mean the volcanoes! And we shouldn't swim in it because if we do we'll die.
What scientific facts have you learned from your kids?
Tags: kids, science, true facts
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Permalink Reply by Bigkrygowski on -
So dragons are the ones depleting the ozone layer. Does Al Gore know this?
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Permalink Reply by GreenLantern on -
Yet children two years old and under sometimes decide to "sample" it.
John T. Capp said:Poop is not one of the basic food groups.
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Permalink Reply by kanachick on -
Not on my watch.
GreenLantern said:Yet children two years old and under sometimes decide to "sample" it.
John T. Capp said:Poop is not one of the basic food groups.
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Permalink Reply by Herasmus B. Dragon on
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That salt is something that you should not have too much of.
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Permalink Reply by Boring User Name on -
That you push on the breast for the baby to come out.
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I'm laughing and picturing some carnival game where the quarter goes in the mouth, you press the button, and out pops the prize.
Daria said:That you push on the breast for the baby to come out.
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Permalink Reply by Danica on -
"Mom, all the rocks that we see are actually made of minerals! Minerals!"
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Permalink Reply by mcglory13 on -
Pointing to my belly button: "this is where the tube that connected you to me." I keep explaining that it doesn't work that way, but he's still perplexed by the umblilical cord.
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Permalink Reply by The Oracle on -
That's sweet though. The Dragon drew me the best picture ever when I was pregnant with Ducky. It's a stick figure with a giant belly made of concentric circles and a little x in the very middle. He asked me to write, "I was a little seed in your tummy." I still have it hanging on my office wall.
mcglory13 said:Pointing to my belly button: "this is where the tube that connected you to me." I keep explaining that it doesn't work that way, but he's still perplexed by the umblilical cord.
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Permalink Reply by Gumbo Momma on -
NB drew a picture like that of me, only the "baby" was this tiny little dot in the center like a bulls eye. I still have the hard copy tucked in my journal and a scan of it on the computer just in case.
The Oracle said:That's sweet though. The Dragon drew me the best picture ever when I was pregnant with Ducky. It's a stick figure with a giant belly made of concentric circles and a little x in the very middle. He asked me to write, "I was a little seed in your tummy." I still have it hanging on my office wall.
mcglory13 said:Pointing to my belly button: "this is where the tube that connected you to me." I keep explaining that it doesn't work that way, but he's still perplexed by the umblilical cord.
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