Jaydee: “Why is the moon up in the morning?”
Mom: It gets confused.
Jaydee: I don’t like that. Why is the moon up in the morning?
Mom: Well the earth spins in a circle and the moon goes around it and sometimes it can’t keep up.
Jaydee: Mmm, I don’t like that.
Mom: We will go to the museum and ask them. (Anyone know a good children’s museum???)
Jaydee: WHY IS THE WIND BLOWING?
Mom: It is Spring in Snowflake… Actually I said “It is blowing in a storm.” (I had watched the weather on the news last night).
Jaydee: There aren’t any clouds. (I thought she said cows, because we were driving by the Johnsons where there are usually baby cows.)
Mom: Maybe he put them away.
Jaydee: Oh there are the clouds, is it raining over there.
Mom: Doesn’t look like there are enough clouds for rain yet.
Jaydee: How does it snow?
Mom: The rain clouds get cold and freeze into snow, but it is not cold enough for snow. (It is 51 degrees)
Jaydee: It is too COLD!
So, all the years of school and college have just been wasted. I am not even smart enough to answer a 3 year olds questions. Of course I was driving so I couldn’t even pull up google for a quick answer to some of these. What questions do your kids ask?
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Arizona Science Center, or you could send her to:
http://www.wonderville.ca/v1/activities/phases/phases.html
I have more sites at:
http://delicious.com/lairdleopard
Good luck!
Here's a site that teaches about meterology:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/investigate/weather_maker.htm
Haha, that is so funny. But I totally wouldn't be able to answer those "correctly" either!! Hey I'm not sure if you got that catalog I left at your house. I am going to be putting the order in tomorrow(friday) so if you or any of your friends or family want any let me know. If not, thats totally fine, just call me and I will come get the catalog!! Thank you dear!
To be fair to you thatis not knowledge you have had to use on a day to day basis. :) I think you did good. I remember one day babysitting that I ended up telling some poor kid that there is dirty dirt and clean dirt... then wondered if I had lost my mind.
The all time kid question is "where do babies come from?" and they always get to a point where "from Heaven" isn't good enough and you're forced to elaborate.
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