The evening in early June that my daughter and I spent huddled in our basement waiting for the tornado warning to expire is definitely in the running to be one of the formative experiences of my daughter’s childhood. Over a month later, she’s still busily processing it. Today she asked, “Can I catch some hail, Mommyo?”
Preschooler after being denied extra playtime before bed: “You are breaking off my heart.” (Image Credit: Nevit Dilman)
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Growing up in Texas, I was always told that tornadoes turn the sky green. Turns out it’s actually the water particles in the air turning the sky green, not the tornado.
This afternoon, after we had exhausted the topic of heartworm treatment in dogs (don’t ask), my daughter asked me about fleas.
Specifically, “Why don’t fleas fly?”
For one reason or another, we have a lot of old children’s books lying around our house. I was in the middle of reading one of these to my daughter over the weekend when she stopped me.
“Mommyo, why did they draw that dinosaur underwater?”
Preschooler: “Mommyo, if we eat healthy food, does that mean we’ll never die?” Mother, suppressing a sigh and taking a determined chomp of her now slightly…
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Laurence Anholt’s Stone Girl, Bone Girl tells the story of Mary Anning, an extraordinarily prolific fossil hunter born in England in 1799.
As she sat next to me previewing the finalists for last Friday’s Dinosaur Video of the Week, my daughter asked, “Can I learn all the dinosaurs, Mommyo?” “I don’t see why not,” I said. After all, my little computational wonder could already recite all 50 states in alphabetical order. How much harder could dinosaurs be? Little did I know how long and uncertain the list of dinosaur species would be.
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