(Betty Jo gave me your blog link). Your pre-schooler scientist posts are cracking me up. My son (who is now 18) was exactly the same way, college-textbook-bedtime-reading and all. Pre-school sharing time consisted of illustrations of the functioning of golgi bodies and a nuanced description of the differences between mitosis and miosis. (In fact I just called him in to watch your YouTube video, which he recognized almost immediately).
To give you a possible look ahead, his interests, while remaining intense, have shifted over the years. I think it was in third grade when they had to pick books out of *other* genres (what? not all-science-all-the-time??!!!) to do reports on, that I gently suggested that there was such a thing as SCIENCEfiction! That spawned a whole new thing...
As a high school senior, his interests are broad and varied from music (he sings in two choirs, plays in two bands and plays 4+ instruments), politics, languages, foreign policy, science fiction, computer gaming, hard math and hard sciences of all kinds - I think particle physics being the current favorite and projected object of his antipicated undergrad studies after his mission.
They are amazing creatures, these kids! And they grow up all too soon... Keep enjoying yours. :-)
Tara - I am so glad you left a comment. It just so happens that today we spent memorizing the stages of mitosis. Am I evil that I told him he need to identify three defining features of each of the five different stages before he could go to kindergarten? I know, I know ...
Geo - Don't even start the youtube synchronized swimming videos on line. It was most entertaining!
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Hi Andi,
(Betty Jo gave me your blog link). Your pre-schooler scientist posts are cracking me up. My son (who is now 18) was exactly the same way, college-textbook-bedtime-reading and all. Pre-school sharing time consisted of illustrations of the functioning of golgi bodies and a nuanced description of the differences between mitosis and miosis. (In fact I just called him in to watch your YouTube video, which he recognized almost immediately).
To give you a possible look ahead, his interests, while remaining intense, have shifted over the years. I think it was in third grade when they had to pick books out of *other* genres (what? not all-science-all-the-time??!!!) to do reports on, that I gently suggested that there was such a thing as SCIENCEfiction! That spawned a whole new thing...
As a high school senior, his interests are broad and varied from music (he sings in two choirs, plays in two bands and plays 4+ instruments), politics, languages, foreign policy, science fiction, computer gaming, hard math and hard sciences of all kinds - I think particle physics being the current favorite and projected object of his antipicated undergrad studies after his mission.
They are amazing creatures, these kids! And they grow up all too soon... Keep enjoying yours. :-)
Takes me back to the days of my Esther Williams obsession.
Kim - I knew you would get it.
Tara - I am so glad you left a comment. It just so happens that today we spent memorizing the stages of mitosis. Am I evil that I told him he need to identify three defining features of each of the five different stages before he could go to kindergarten? I know, I know ...
Geo - Don't even start the youtube synchronized swimming videos on line. It was most entertaining!
Andi, that is soo freakin' funny!
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