I was reminded of something tonight. The son who picks up information like a hoover, asks me all sorts of questions about science (“Why did people know that if a helicopter had just a main rotor, the helicopter would spin round?”) and often has his nose in a book is also the lad who is still the right age to occasionally want to make a bed specially for his teddy bear and tuck it in goodnight.
I was reminded of something else this afternoon. We were walking back from town, it was very sunny and K had a green balloon which was casting a green shadow on the floor, even though our bodies were all casting normal black/dark ones. K asked “Why is the shadow green?” and we said that the sun shines on the path but our bodies get in the way and act like a wall because they don’t let any light through. The sun shines on another bit of the path and the balloon gets in the way… K immediately piped up “It only lets the green light through” 🙂 J then asked the very sensible question “Why are our shadows not completely black?” and I was still a bit staggered by K’s understanding that I fluffed describing light bouncing off other things like walls to get to the path. I was reminded that I have two sons with a brain.
I wasn’t reminded as such, more learned, yesterday that L throws as well as her brothers. Very impressive.
Oh that is a really nice post. Thank you 🙂
Didn’t know that about shadows either!