The Dangers of Teaching by Analogy

S. Jr. : Mommy, do farmers maple sugar the horses the same way that they milk the cows?

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Sidereal Jr. Discovers the Germ Theory of Disease

Upon learning that his father has an ear infection:

S. Jr.: Daddy, maybe you got germs in your ear when somebody with germs in their mouth yelled at your ear.

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Further Conversations with Sidereal Jr.

Wherein my 4 year old son rediscovers Plato's Theory of Forms.


S. Jr. : I love pancakes. They're so pancakey!

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Conversation with Siderealette

In which my two year old daughter is proven to be more intelligent than every living Republican......

Siderealette: Daddy, big cars bad de Earf.


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Further Conversations with Sidereal Jr.

In which an alternate explanation for the disappearance of the dinosaurs is posited.....

S. Jr.: Daddy, are the dinosaurs all gone from the Earth?

S.: Yes, they are.

S. Jr.: Are they dead?

S.: Yes, they died a long, long time ago.

S. Jr.: Why are they all dead?

S.: I don't know. Maybe they got sick?

S. Jr.: Or maybe they all went to the Sun!

He's at the forefront of both astronomy and paleology!

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Further Conversations with Sidereal Jr.

In which the science of Chromomathematics is born.....

S.: What's your favorite color?

S. Jr.: I have three favorite colors, blue, red and green. That's because I'm three.

When I'm four I'll have four favorite colors, blue, red, green and yellow.

And when I'm fivel I'll have five favorite colors, blue, red, green, yellow and brown.

According to Crayola, he's good until he reachs 133....

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Further Conversations with Sidereal Jr.

A finely tuned sense of moral outrage:

S.: Okay, which book do you want to read first, "Curious George and the Puppies" or "Curious George Takes a Job"?

S. Jr.: We should read a different story; Curious George always gets into trouble.

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Further Conversations with Sidereal Jr.

Completely unassailable logic:

S.: I am a big scary monster looking for a little boy to eat for lunch!!!

S. Jr.: You can't eat me! My nose is full of boogers!


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Further Conversations with Sidereal Jr.

How you know your kid is gonna be a geek.....

S. Jr. (holding hands up): Daddy, how come I can't generate a forcefield?

S.: ??? Uh..... ???

I am so proud.....

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Further Conversations with Sidereal Jr.

How you know when you're raising them right.....

Sidereal: What are you looking at?

S Jr.: You and Mommy have a lot of books.

Sidereal: Well, you have a lot of books too. You have two shelves of books in your room.

S Jr. looks up at three six-foot tall bookcases double stacked with books, two rows deep on each shelf.

S. Jr.: When I'm big like you, can I read your books?

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Conversation with Sidereal Jr. Today

S Jr. : Daddy, why do cats have tails?

Sidereal: I don't know. Maybe to help them walk?

S Jr.: Maybe so they can eat cat food and put it in their tails?


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