http://blog.wizardofcheese.com/2008/09/monkeys-on-the-loose/ Just us Wizards and our dairy products here... Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:01:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://blog.wizardofcheese.com/2008/09/monkeys-on-the-loose/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Andrey Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:22:28 +0000 http://www.wizardofcheese.com/blog/?p=3#comment-2 Good stuff. It is always surprising what kids think about complex and not so easy to apprehend topics like God, death and love for example. All four of us - me, Natalie, my boy Artem and four year old daughter Anna were walking yesterday in our quite neighborhood. We have a small road without a sidewalk. It is not busy and cars would pass us only once in about 10 minutes. We always try to walk closer to the side of the road to keep it safe and teach our kids to do so too. Well, anyway, there is dead small chipmunk flattened by several cars on the middle of the road. I hoped that my kids won't notice it. But Anna did. Immediately she asked me what it was. I told her that it's a chipmunk. She is - "Why does it look like that?" I explained her that it was dead because it was not careful, was not walking on the side of the road and it got hit by a car and it was dead now. She is - "Dead? . So what's next." "Nothing "- I told her prepared for a big number of questions. But she was surprisingly cool about it. She said - " Don't you die when you get old?". I was surprised that she mentioned that because we never discussed that topic with her. I told her you can also die if you got hit by a car. And we kept walking like nothing happened and she ran to pick some acorns in front of me. My kids surprise me everyday. Good stuff. It is always surprising what kids think about complex and not so easy to apprehend topics like God, death and love for example.
All four of us – me, Natalie, my boy Artem and four year old daughter Anna were walking yesterday in our quite neighborhood. We have a small road without a sidewalk. It is not busy and cars would pass us only once in about 10 minutes. We always try to walk closer to the side of the road to keep it safe and teach our kids to do so too. Well, anyway, there is dead small chipmunk flattened by several cars on the middle of the road. I hoped that my kids won’t notice it. But Anna did. Immediately she asked me what it was. I told her that it’s a chipmunk. She is – “Why does it look like that?” I explained her that it was dead because it was not careful, was not walking on the side of the road and it got hit by a car and it was dead now. She is – “Dead? . So what’s next.” “Nothing “- I told her prepared for a big number of questions. But she was surprisingly cool about it. She said – ” Don’t you die when you get old?”. I was surprised that she mentioned that because we never discussed that topic with her. I told her you can also die if you got hit by a car. And we kept walking like nothing happened and she ran to pick some acorns in front of me. My kids surprise me everyday.

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