A family friend is a primary school teacher. There was a day in April when the children, age 6 and 7, were asked to bring in an object to show the class that had importance to the family and was very old. One little boy produced a mango-shaped lump of rock with some chips taken out of it. He told the class it was an axe, which it clearly wasn't. He said it had been made by his "great granddaddy". The family friend, somewhat puzzled, asked if his great grandfather had been a stonemason. The boy said no - he had been a homo erectus.
Turns out, from speaking to the lad's parents, that his forebear had been a palaeontologist working in West Africa and the object was made of flint and found by him in the 1950s. Being around 600,000 years old, it was by far the oldest object brought into class that day.
Things kids say.
Re: Things kids say.
Interesting going around in a skirt, you occasionally hear snippets of children asking their parents or each other "is that man/boy wearing a skirt?" I chuckle inwardly and carry on wondering what the answer is going to be.
Of course when flapping your ears, you do not always hear correctly or get the context of the question/conversation, and your brain will always be ready to fill in the blanks with what you are thinking. But even so, it is normally the kids that will ask the leading questions when others are holding their social a where tongue.
Of course when flapping your ears, you do not always hear correctly or get the context of the question/conversation, and your brain will always be ready to fill in the blanks with what you are thinking. But even so, it is normally the kids that will ask the leading questions when others are holding their social a where tongue.
Daily, a happy man in a skirt...