Friday 21 January 2011

Discussion with a 4 year old...

I had an interesting discussion with child 3 after picking him up from preschool on Wednesday. He had had a lovely day, doing lots of making - including rockets and a flying saucer.

Child 3: We watched a film about flying saucers
Me: Really? That's sounds very interesting.
Child 3: They make them in Africa
Me: I didn't know that!
Child 3: Except for the blue bits. The Aliens make those.
Me: Mmm. So why do the Aliens make the blue bits?
Child 3: Because the blue bits will kill you.

I still don't know what the blue bits are exactly.......or why flying saucers are made in Africa.

5 comments:

  1. Oh how I enjoyed my two children when they were that age. I have a wonderful home video of my 5 year old daughter sitting cross legged in the garden chattering away telling me all about God and his magic finger!

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  2. Wow trippy man.You have just got to relax into those kind of conversations and then go write them down cos like dreams they vanish.

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  3. Jane he's taller than me and I'm considered a tall woman. in 2008 he started some serious growing and hasn't stopped. I might have a look for the cookery book. We are working towards him being more independant. Great fun though.

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  4. Louise that sounds quite scary Do you think Thomas has slowed down yet? B grew an inch over Christmas. End of term his school trousers fit him - 2 weeks later they were too short!

    The Usborne cookbook for boys might feel a bit young at 13, but maybe not... To be honest most of the kids cookbooks all seemed too girly or too much baking and this we thought was great - really orientated towards the food boys like to eat (chilli con carne, pizza, lamb curry, hamburgers etc.)

    I love it when they can cook in the kitchen with a little help rather than "helping" cook.

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  5. Hi! Thanks for the amazing advice over at the blog. I will check out the web site as we do a fair bit of science (I am a science teacher) but always like to see new ideas. Oh how I wish hed ever shown interest in sewing. Someone has put me intouch with geocaching a high tech treasure hunt. well worth the look see. Thanks again I appreciate your time. Lx

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