If only science worked that way

Posted on September 1, 2012 by

Lately, The Five-Year-Old has taken to balling up pieces of otherwise perfectly good computer paper, tossing them at random around the playroom, and then instructing me in a very stern voice not to pick them up until she has documented the experiment’s results.

After a bout of kitty asteroid tossing, The Five-Year-Old naturally wanted to review the results of the experiment with her father.

The Five-Year-Old, didactically: “Daddyo, tell me what you have learned from my discoveries.”

Daddyo, curiously: “What are your discoveries?”

The Five-Year-Old, patiently: “I don’t have any discoveries until you tell me about them.”

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About Shala Howell

Writer of things ranging from optical network switching white papers to genetic testing patient education materials to historical fiction set in an 1880s asylum. When I’m not scratching my head over pesky characters who refuse to do things how I want them done or dreaming of my next book (which will of course be much easier to write and research than the current one), my writerly self can be found sifting through the stacks in my church’s archives looking for a few good stories to tell, blogging about life with a very curious Six-Year-Old at Caterpickles.com, or musing about books and the writing life at BostonWriters.wordpress.com.
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One Response to If only science worked that way

  1. Pingback: The Safety Conscious Five-Year-Old | CATERPICKLES

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