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deputychairman:
sixappleseeds:
summersfirstsnow replied to your chat “[scene: the rabbit room at the shelter] small child: *points to a…”
Ah, the classic “how technical should I be getting here to explain this to this small human” question. *flashes back to attempting to explain the complexities of the Bering Land Bridge theory and prehistoric human migration to a 7-year-old*
how…. how did that go?
I explained the French Revolution to my small humans with “the King of France wouldn’t share so they cut off his head” and I think that rather neatly expressed the essence of what happened
It’s become a running joke now that we explain extremely complex things to my niece to see what she’ll absorb. She’s 3, and theory bores her so she changes the subject, but various historical and scientific things have made a surprising impression on her. She’s good at language so she can remember and drag out surprisingly long phrases with good accuracy at quite a remove. (It’s great fun to watch strangers handle the fact that a 3-year-old is explaining the prevailing theories of the extinction of the megafauna of the Ice Age, for example.)
Being a kid from a farm, though, she has a very good understanding of ah, various realities about livestock. When she was about one, she came out while we were processing the meat chickens, and after checking out the proceedings with great interest, pointed to the live ones in their coops awaiting their fate and proclaimed, “to pet!” and then to the processed ones in the chill tank waiting to go into the freezer, “to eat!”
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deputychairman:
sixappleseeds:
summersfirstsnow replied to your chat “[scene: the rabbit room at the shelter] small child: *points to a…”
Ah, the classic “how technical should I be getting here to explain this to this small human” question. *flashes back to attempting to explain the complexities of the Bering Land Bridge theory and prehistoric human migration to a 7-year-old*
how…. how did that go?
I explained the French Revolution to my small humans with “the King of France wouldn’t share so they cut off his head” and I think that rather neatly expressed the essence of what happened
It’s become a running joke now that we explain extremely complex things to my niece to see what she’ll absorb. She’s 3, and theory bores her so she changes the subject, but various historical and scientific things have made a surprising impression on her. She’s good at language so she can remember and drag out surprisingly long phrases with good accuracy at quite a remove. (It’s great fun to watch strangers handle the fact that a 3-year-old is explaining the prevailing theories of the extinction of the megafauna of the Ice Age, for example.)
Being a kid from a farm, though, she has a very good understanding of ah, various realities about livestock. When she was about one, she came out while we were processing the meat chickens, and after checking out the proceedings with great interest, pointed to the live ones in their coops awaiting their fate and proclaimed, “to pet!” and then to the processed ones in the chill tank waiting to go into the freezer, “to eat!”
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