Kid Physics 101

 

 

One of the brightest sides of parenthood is seeing kids try to understand the world around them. They can come up with wierd and wonderful theories about how things work or came to be … sort of like the Theory of Evolution and Michael Crichton’s theory of time travel based on alternate universes (although he never explains how the message written in the 14th Century alternate universe makes it to the the 20th Century alternate universe … see Timeline)

Here’s my two favourites from my own kids:

Elder Son: (4 years old, pointing to power cord that runs from the digital clock by my bed) “Dad I know what that pipe’s for. It puts the time into the clock.”

Younger Son: (6 years old, having fallen asleep for twenty minutees of a car trip, stirs and wakes up) “Dad! You should thank me. I just made the trip go quicker!”