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As an elementary school teacher, I have the awesome privilege to work with kids aged 6-10 for most of my time. To talk with them, discuss important and funny issues, teach them interesting and useful things, but also learn from them. Yes, kids can teach us to look at things from a different perspective, one that we are not used to, or have forgotten a long time ago. And sometimes they ask the most hilarious questions! But after the initial giggles, you realise there is actually much more sense in what they want to know than they can even begin to imagine. And no, "I don't know" is not an option!
Examples...
"What would you do if you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?"
"Why do girls go to the night-clubs wearing evening dresses? If it's a night-club, shouldn't they be wearing night-gowns?"
"If "love is truly blind", then why is erotic lingerie so popular with adults?"
"If Americans throw rice at weddings, does it mean Asians throw hamburgers at their weddings?"
"If a rabbit's paw brings good luck, then what happened to the rabbit?"
"Why don't they make the whole plane from the same unbreakable material as the black box?"
"How did that "No tresspassing" sign get into the middle of that grass lawn?"
"If the traffic cops control how the drivers drive, who controls how the traffic cops drive?"
"Why is it called "tourist season" if we cannot shoot at tourists?"
"If clothes shrink in the washer, why don't sheep shrink when it rains?"
"If nothing sticks to teflon, how was the teflon attached to the frying pan?"
"Why is there only one Commission on Monopolies?"
"If people came from monkeys, how come there are still monkeys in the mountain?"
"If you were born neither a boy nor a girl, what would you be?"
"Why does God let people die, instead of letting them live and saving all that work with making new people?"
How would you have responded to these? And what other funny questions have you been asked by kids? How did you respond? :-)
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Date: 9/11/12 17:23 (UTC)Curse the repressive Government bureaucracy that stops me from getting two meals so tasty that the supply has begun to dwindle. It's artificial restriction of competition, I tell you! I could take out that stupid koala, eat the koala, and then roast him in that endangered plant's trunk, and evolution demands that I do so!
"Why does God let people die, instead of letting them live and saving all that work with making new people?"
Because the world is cold and essentially evil, and life is merely an accidental ordering of molecules that will vanish in the blink of a cosmic eye, before the universe expands itself to death and the very atoms that make up your body are spread so thin that you couldn't interact with them, even if you hadn't been torn apart or frozen to death by the ever-marching tide of entropy.
What I don't get is why everyone keeps warning me not to have kids.
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Date: 9/11/12 17:28 (UTC)And then the questions would pile on you like an avalanche. What is this... Govament? How do molecules order? How do atoms spread? What is entropy and can I surf on its tide? You know, that sort of stuff.
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Date: 9/11/12 17:37 (UTC)Another time when one of my boys asked me, "Mom, why do you know so much?", I said, "Because I read a lot of books". So once when I answere to a question with "I do not know", he said, "Then go to your books and read some more, then come back and tell me!"
And the questions only get tougher with time... And they begin detecting when I am bullshitting them... It is a wonderful stimulation for the brain. Explaining complicated things in a simple way is the hardest thing there is.
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Date: 9/11/12 18:01 (UTC)It's an interesting experiment.
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Date: 9/11/12 18:41 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/11/12 18:19 (UTC)1: The eating of said plants is often part of their reproductive cycle, also sometimes the endangerment of plants (and habitat) cause the endangerment of said animals?
2: "Evening-club" just didn't sound as catchy as "night-club"
3: I'll tell you when you're older
4: China, Japan, and Russia have a tendency to surprise me, so... sure why not.
5. People say "The Luck of the Irish" yet why are they bankrupt?
6. Really Bowing, you should look into this!
7. An endangered animal planted it there, being a protected species has it's privileges.
8. Traffic cops don't control how we drive, although I'm sure they wish they did so they can pull over more people.
9. Because tourists don't taste very good.
I need a break
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Date: 9/11/12 18:43 (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 9/11/12 18:55 (UTC)Little son: "Aha!"
Daughter: "But why? Why so early?"
Mommy: (resisting to use the wrongest approach by simply saying Because-I-Said-So): "It is 10 p.m. already and your head will be hurting tomorrow if you don't get enough sleep tonight". (The way the brain works has been a recurring topic here lately, it seems).
Daughter: (obviously having no problem with the concept of 10 p.m. whatsoever): "But who said kids should go to bed exactly at 10? Why not at 11?"
Me: "I suppose it was someone whose kid went to bed at 11, and her head was hurting very badly on the next day". (HA! You'd think I've won this one, eh? But no...)
Daughter: (without even a hint of dissent, but sheer curiosity): "So at what time did kids use to go to bed before that person had said that they should start going to bed at 10?"
Silence and bewilderment...
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Date: 9/11/12 19:10 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/11/12 19:48 (UTC)"What would you do if you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?"
Laugh
"Why do girls go to the night-clubs wearing evening dresses? If it's a night-club, shouldn't they be wearing night-gowns?"
Good question, if more girls wore nightgowns to night clubs I might just go clubbing
"If "love is truly blind", then why is erotic lingerie so popular with adults?"
Because love aint as blind as they say.
"If Americans throw rice at weddings, does it mean Asians throw hamburgers at their weddings?"
No, they throw fries, hamburgers got too messy.
"If a rabbit's paw brings good luck, then what happened to the rabbit?"
Lucky for you not the rabbit
"Why don't they make the whole plane from the same unbreakable material as the black box?"
Mass ratios, *begins drawing diagrams of Bernouli and Tsilokovski's equations on the blackboard*
"How did that "No tresspassing" sign get into the middle of that grass lawn?"
A wizard did it.
"If the traffic cops control how the drivers drive, who controls how the traffic cops drive?"
Excellent question. "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" and depending on how jaded you get before reaching adulthood the answer is either everyone or no one.
"Why is it called "tourist season" if we cannot shoot at tourists?"
I don't know
"If clothes shrink in the washer, why don't sheep shrink when it rains?"
What makes you think they don't? ;)
"If nothing sticks to teflon, how was the teflon attached to the frying pan?"
It's that damn wizard again.
"Why is there only one Commission on Monopolies?"
Because if there was more than one it wouldn't be a monopoloy, it'd be duopoly, triopoly, quadopoly, etc...
"If people came from monkeys, how come there are still monkeys in the mountain?"
Because some people thought that coming down out of the trees/mountains was a silly idea in the first place. They may yet be proven right.
"If you were born neither a boy nor a girl, what would you be?"
androgynous, next question
"Why does God let people die, instead of letting them live and saving all that work with making new people?"
Because as you will soon discover, (in 5-10 years or so) making new people is a lot more fun than hanging out with the same old people. ;)
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Date: 9/11/12 19:56 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/11/12 20:04 (UTC)Often it is the best option.
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Date: 9/11/12 20:09 (UTC)The purpose of education is to make them safe for the public. ;)
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Date: 9/11/12 20:44 (UTC)I thought about it a bit, then said, "Ever been out to sea for two years without one?"
He nodded sagely, and wandered off.
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Date: 10/11/12 02:57 (UTC)Enjoy the show safely but do not initiate a violence!
"Why do girls go to the night-clubs wearing evening dresses? If it's a night-club, shouldn't they be wearing night-gowns?"
Sometimes they do. :)
"If "love is truly blind", then why is erotic lingerie so popular with adults?"
Love is blind, sex is not. :)
"If Americans throw rice at weddings, does it mean Asians throw hamburgers at their weddings?"
No, it doesn't.
"If a rabbit's paw brings good luck, then what happened to the rabbit?"
Rabbits don't know about that theory.
"Why don't they make the whole plane from the same unbreakable material as the black box?"
You can't protect everything, plane will be too heavy with this level of strength.
"How did that "No tresspassing" sign get into the middle of that grass lawn?"
Why not? Do you really trust everything you read?
"If the traffic cops control how the drivers drive, who controls how the traffic cops drive?"
Theoretically - people do election of Major and sheriff and if police behaved badly they will suffer.
In real life, search on youtube for police officer arrested for reckless driving. :)
"Why is it called "tourist season" if we cannot shoot at tourists?"
You need a license.
"If clothes shrink in the washer, why don't sheep shrink when it rains?"
It's because of low percentage of polyester in her body.
"If nothing sticks to teflon, how was the teflon attached to the frying pan?"
Where is contradiction?
"Why is there only one Commission on Monopolies?"
Because even two will fine businesses to death.
"If people came from monkeys, how come there are still monkeys in the mountain?"
Some monkey was lazy.
"If you were born neither a boy nor a girl, what would you be?"
Plenty of scary choices - alcohol and drugs during pregnancy can alter result.
"Why does God let people die, instead of letting them live and saving all that work with making new people?"
Why not? He gave us a freedom to live, breed and die.
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Date: 10/11/12 09:24 (UTC)