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Spit sinks.
That is the wisdom that was thrust upon me by my son who had turned five less than a week before. This coming about two and a half minutes into a fountain experience at the local upscale mall with his good friend, the young Mr. Nathan King, currently four years of age.
He came at me with all the wide-eyed enthusiasm of a young scientist who had just made is first official discovery. His taut arms stretched up to about his own eye-level, hands cupped into small parenteses around his cherub-like face. "Spit sinks." The words stole my heart.
Since he's my second boy, I knew immediately from whence the discovery came. Being a proper mother in a proper mall, I admonished him not to spit in the fountain again. He held firm. "But it sinks! It really does!" My reply was quick and simple. "Yes, I'm glad to hear that you have learned that important lesson in life. And now that you know that, you don't need to try it again."
(Please don't anyone inform him about the whole idea of scientific facts requiring repeatable outcomes.)
That is the wisdom that was thrust upon me by my son who had turned five less than a week before. This coming about two and a half minutes into a fountain experience at the local upscale mall with his good friend, the young Mr. Nathan King, currently four years of age.
He came at me with all the wide-eyed enthusiasm of a young scientist who had just made is first official discovery. His taut arms stretched up to about his own eye-level, hands cupped into small parenteses around his cherub-like face. "Spit sinks." The words stole my heart.
Since he's my second boy, I knew immediately from whence the discovery came. Being a proper mother in a proper mall, I admonished him not to spit in the fountain again. He held firm. "But it sinks! It really does!" My reply was quick and simple. "Yes, I'm glad to hear that you have learned that important lesson in life. And now that you know that, you don't need to try it again."
(Please don't anyone inform him about the whole idea of scientific facts requiring repeatable outcomes.)
posted by Julie @ 10:52 PM
3 Comments
3 Comments:
Okay - I want tell him about needing to test and test and test before publishing your findings. However, I make no such promises about not encouraging him to see if other body fluids sink also.....hehehe now that is a trip to the mall I want to go with you on!
BTW I know the difference in WANT and WONT my fingers just dan't or don't hehehe
Gotta love it LOL
Mine just came in to show the the dinosaur bone he discovered int he front yard - an old chicken bone YUCK. I hated to tell them it was trash, especially when E asked if we could take it to the museum!
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