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mereubu
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 Posted - 11/26/2003 : 18:46:47
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I have a 5 year old daugther and she has received a full dose of evolutionary thinking from my wife (an anthropologist) and I (a biologist). That doesn't mean that she's taught religion is incorrect (evolution and religion can coexist).
One day she piped up about the origin of humans and first said something like, "for humans to evolve there would have to be two of them" (a mom and a dad) and then "we don't know humans evolved because to one was there to see it". My wife and I both instantly thought someone had been feeding arguments, but she said no one had. So good for her; they're good questions (easily answered in my opinion, but she's thinking).
Erebus - I agree. Young kids can't handle thoughts of long time periods or even long distances. Shoot, they can't even really comprehend life before they were born.
My daughter (5 y/o) has been obsessed w/everything prehistoric since the age of three, and I can tell that, alongside her fascination with it, the whole process of extinction & evolution saddens her too. She said just yesterday that "it's cool that our ancestor was an animal." What animal? "Australopithecus." Oh yeah. We're animals too, you know? "Yeah, yeah, but you know what I mean." I think she's just about to get to the sticky part of asking if we're going to eventually go extinct too, and I'm dreading it.
She goes to preschool three mornings a week at a church, but they don't talk about religion. I think they say little prayers at snack time, but that's it. I keep thinking that she'll ask me about God or praying or something like that, but it's yet to happen.
Not sure where I'm going with this. Just taking a break from the pie-baking madness.
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
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Posted - 11/26/2003 : 21:44:31
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Wow, Australopithecus. That's cool. I wonder if girls focus more on human origins and boys on dinosaurs.
I've tried to steer somewhat clear of the modern day extinction problem (we do talk about dinosaurs going extinct, except that birds can be called modern day dinosaurs) . To me it's just too heavy for a young kid. Have some fun before you find out about all the bad things.
My daughter has asked some about God, but what has been surprising is that she's never really asked about sex. She knows that she comes from her two parents, but has never asked how. It seems odd given all of the other questions she asks. |
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Cult_Of_Frank
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Posted - 11/27/2003 : 08:52:10
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I imagine she knows. All it takes is one kid at school to have been told and it gets around. And then it's embarrassing to ask your parents...
If she didn't know, she probably would've asked.
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mereubu
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Posted - 11/27/2003 : 19:14:41
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Hee-hee. Dean, I think Darwin's little girl is five. The little ones are satisfied for a long time with knowing "where" babies come frome (i.e. mommies) before they get curious enough to ask exactly how that all works.
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Cult_Of_Frank
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Posted - 11/28/2003 : 06:31:29
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I thought he said she was 7... :)
Yeah, OK, 5 might be a little early to be wondering such things. I suppose I never really gave it too much thought until I was 7, at which point a friend came to school bursting with some information to tell us...
But I was asking at age two, for the record. I'm just that inquisitive. My first sentence was, "Excuse me, mother, I was just trying to ascertain my origins if you could help a good lad out?" So her asking at 5 is believable. :)
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glacial906
* Dog in the Sand *
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Posted - 11/28/2003 : 06:49:07
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Dean, did you ask it in the voice of Stewey from "Family Guy?" That's what I keep envisioning, that you were this little football-shaped head baby with plans of world domination.
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Carl Sagan
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Cult_Of_Frank
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Posted - 11/28/2003 : 06:59:56
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Heh, what do you mean "were"?
I still plan to have Saskatoon as capital of Europe and me as impromptu ruler and overlord.
I suppose if you change the "excuse me" to "I say" and remove that "if you could a good lad out" , I could very well have been Stewart Gilligan Griffin.
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