Overheard this morning:
Father: “You are old enough to put your shoes on by yourself. You are eight.”
Son: “What if I was four?”
Father: “If you were four I would help you.”
Son: Then the solution is time travel!

Posted on May 17, 2020 at 11:54 am in Age, Science Comments

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Liver must be good for vegetarians! — after hearing that liver contains a lot of protein.

Posted on Sep 04, 2016 at 11:30 pm in Food, Science Comments

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NK (7): “Dad, I’m gonna dig a hole in the garden.”
Me: “OK”
NK: “Can I paint it black?”
Me: “Sure!”
NK: Cool! It will suck all the light around and earth will collapse into it because of, you know, gravity.

Posted on Aug 10, 2016 at 12:27 pm in Science Comments

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They put salt & pepper in the water? — Lina, age 4, after swallowing a bit of sea water during our beach vacation.

Posted on Jul 04, 2016 at 05:28 pm in Food, Science Comments

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Mommy, I couldn’t have come out of your belly, because there’s no door in your belly!

Posted on Jun 21, 2016 at 08:53 pm in Life, Science Comments

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I don’t think Santa exists, because deers can’t fly since they don’t have wings. — NKL, age 7.

Posted on Jun 21, 2016 at 12:10 am in Science Comments

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You told me babies are made when parents get married. Does that mean Jane and John got married three times???! — NKL, 7, talking about parents of three.

Posted on Jun 21, 2016 at 12:04 am in Family, Science Comments

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Soooooo, Dad, before the Big Bang, …  — NKL, age 7.

Posted on Jun 21, 2016 at 12:01 am in Science Comments

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Why does it get colder the higher you go even though you’re getting closer to the sun? — Damian, age 11.

Posted on Jun 19, 2016 at 04:22 pm in Science Comments

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My 6-year-old son is devouring half a watermelon. I tell him: “Make sure to spit out the seeds otherwise a watermelon plant will grow in your tummy.” He looks at me as if I were crazy and answers: That’s impossible, Dad! There’s no sunlight in my belly.

Posted on Jun 18, 2016 at 03:42 pm in Food, Science Comments

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I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing.

Posted on Jun 16, 2016 at 09:35 pm in Science Comments

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Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change back into a sun in the daytime.

Posted on Jun 11, 2016 at 12:00 pm in Science Comments

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When people run around and around in circles we say they are crazy. When planets do it we say they are orbiting.

Posted on Jun 11, 2016 at 11:06 am in Science Comments

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Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.

Posted on Jun 11, 2016 at 10:38 am in Science Comments

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