& now for something light and cute...
Ah, I have a good story today. Dh has been teaching my 3-year-old about planets and all that using a toy monkey as the earth and something else as the sun - a ball or something. For some reason we live on the butt of the monkey in all of his analogies. My son is at the "why? why? why?" stage and sometimes a visual makes more sense. Not that we expect him to really get it.
Anyway, hubby just informed me that today my son asked if we REALLY live on a monkey butt. LOL!!!!
The funniest thing is he was asking me just the other day something about the sun and I Went to the monkey analogy and he said, "mom - we don't really live on a monkey." LOL. It was like he was scolding me for getting it all wrong.
Apparently since then we have majorly confused him.
Poor kid.
I remember all the things that really confused me as a kid and the weird things I thought and I really try to keep that top of my mind when I say things to the kids. But frankly, there is no way to know what they are thinking sometimes. Though this may be kind of an obvious one - a way to really confuse your toddler!
& yeah, I find it frustrating all this "why?" stuff. I really try to answer in terms best he can understand for the first 50 whys, but after that I start to burn out. Inevitably you have to end the conversation with "I don't know" or because "that's the way it is." With the more science-y stuff I always end with "go ask your dad." LOL.
Totally Off-Topic but FUNNY
October 13th, 2006 at 05:53 am
October 13th, 2006 at 01:05 pm 1160741114
Could not fathom why one would want needy friends.
October 13th, 2006 at 02:48 pm 1160747335
October 13th, 2006 at 03:49 pm 1160750999
Also when DS asks a question for the 5 billionth time I tell him if he wants to memorize my statement he should, but I am tired of repeating it..and if he doesn't understand, me saying it again wont help. generally moves him on to a new topic.
Oh and books, 'lets read and find out science' has lots of science broken down relaly easy, not neccessarily enough for a 3 year old, but closer than most books come. (though the planet one does still say pluto is a planet...)
October 13th, 2006 at 08:56 pm 1160769378