Talking to Veronica this morning:<\/p>\n
“Remember Uncle Mark? He went to Disneyland with us.”<\/p>\n
“Uh huh. I want to go to Disneyland again!”<\/p>\n
“We will go again sometime. Uncle Mark went to China to be a teacher. Right around the same time you started kindergarten. But he doesn’t teach kindergarten. He teaches grownups.”<\/p>\n
She nods.<\/p>\n
“He got sick and he is in the hospital right now. That is what daddy and I have been talking about.”<\/p>\n
“But what is he sick with?”<\/p>\n
“He has a cough.”<\/p>\n
“I have a cough.”<\/p>\n
“yes, you have a cough. You are getting better. Uncle Mark needed help getting better so he’s in the hospital.”<\/p>\n
“I want to go to China.”<\/p>\n
Se we got out her National Geographic Animal Atlas. I showed her where we are, which she already knew. And then I showed her where China is.<\/p>\n
“Look! That’s where Pandas live. They don’t live in the cities though. They are not near Uncle Mark.”<\/p>\n
She recently had to do a research project for school (THE THINGS THEY MAKE KINDERGARTNERS DO!!!). We had to research a zoo animal, and she picked tigers. She had to write where tigers live, what they eat and an interesting fact about about them. I helped her find out from wikipedia that tigers live in Asia, they eat buffaloes and deer, and that the are disappearing. There are a lot fewer of them than there used to be.<\/p>\n
So I went on. “Oh! China is in Asia. There are tigers there, remember? Maybe the tigers eat the pandas.”<\/p>\n
She was horrified. “Mommy! Tigers don’t eat pandas! Tigers eat people!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Talking to Veronica this morning: “Remember Uncle Mark? He went to Disneyland with us.” “Uh huh. I want to go to Disneyland again!” “We will go again sometime. Uncle Mark went to China to be a teacher. Right around the … Continue reading