Go ask your dad

We are pretty strict about bedtime at our house, mainly because once bedtime comes, I am DONE. Done with whining, done with fighting, done with fetching glasses of water and picking up cookie crumbs. Done.Done.Done.

Every so often though, we ignore bedtime, more in the summer months than the winter. Tonight was one of those nights. BFF Kissy had a night off work, the first in weeks, so we all loaded up and headed to the city to meet her for coffee.

Often, Logan,3, amuses himself by telling us about everything he can see, from a bit of dirt on his shoes, to a horse out the window. As we rounded the last curve to our house, Logan pointed and exclaimed: “A Sunset Mommy! A Sunset!!” then he got quiet. Just before we parked in our driveway, Logan spoke up again, this time with a question; How did the sunset get here?

As per usual, when I do not know the answer I tell him to ask his dad. But, If you had been sitting in the car with us, what would You have told Logan? How does a person explain sunsets and the earths rotation to a three year old?

∗ Posted by bluepaintred on 05.23.2008
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Comments: 7 »

  1. YOU didn’t have an answer? I’ve seen your videos and read your posts… you ALWAYS have a story…

    I’m sad…

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    Comment by tori - May 23, 2008 11:25 pm

  2. I would of told him to google it.

    Yes, I would of told your three year old to google it.

    Seriously.

    :D

    PS - Have fun tomorrow!

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    Comment by Sheila - May 24, 2008 12:36 am

  3. You tell the three-year-old that the Earth turns and the Sun doesn’t and that’s why the Sun seems to move across the sky. It’s night when your part of the Earth is turned away from the Sun. You can use an apple and an orange to demonstrate or Google a visual for him.

    He will understand, and if he doesn’t, he’ll ask questions. And you’ll answer them. You’d be amazed at how much kids “get it.”

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    Comment by Finn - May 24, 2008 9:20 am

  4. Pffft. It’s like the mailman. It gets around to every house eventually. At different times of the day, especially during different seasons… Hey, it worked for my kid until 1st grade when they learned about the sun and planets.

    Winter’s last blog post..No Time

    Comment by Winter - May 24, 2008 10:02 am

  5. Our baby, (he’s 3 also) was fascinated by the North Pole site at Christmas, but they use that flat map of the Earth to show where Santa was. He likes looking at certain sites on the computer, so I have “Google Earth” and I put it on his desktop (he has his own log-in). He understands (I think) that we live on the earth and the earth is round and the stars around it are what we look up and see and the sun is a big star farther away and we spin around on the earth.
    He kind of gets it! He tells people about it, like “See the stars? We live on the earth and it’s round.” Pretty cute.

    Yeah, it takes a lot more time and patience as they get older, huh? I’m counting on him being able to READ and “Google” for the birds-and-the-bees talk.

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    Comment by annie - May 24, 2008 12:24 pm

  6. I would told my daughter “that’s just what happens every night”.

    I’m not good at thinking of wonderfully creative explanations. That’s my husband’s job!

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    Comment by Jen - May 24, 2008 4:35 pm

  7. i like the google it idea you put ;-) bet by 4yrs old he’ll know what that means! :roll:
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    Comment by archi's mum - May 24, 2008 7:55 pm

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