Tuesday, May 11, 2004
"important life lessons"
I had the pleasure of needing to teach Sierra the difference between porous and non-porous surfaces today. (Actually, this training would have come in handy a few weeks back when she decided to draw a computing center on her walls for she and her imaginary friends to use for playing computer games!!) Her art fix this week is white glue. She spread it on our glass coffee table and let it dry so she could peel it off. While it doesn't bother me too much, since i know it comes off, I really wanted to make sure that she didn't decide it would be fun to put it on the sofa, carpet or any other porous object, hence the need for instruction. I told her that while i don't necessarily condone the spreading of glue on our coffee table, it is far better than the spreading of glue on any porous surfaces. I think she gets it. I hope so, at least.
She got the chance to learn about metamorphosis over the weekend. We captured two caterpillars and she put them in a jar. The next morning, one had spun a cocoon and the other was just starting one. Remember the phases...egg, larva, pupa, adult? Well, they're just happy as can be at the pupa phase right now and I found out that their adult phase is a moth that damages fruit trees, so I may have to do a little intervention between the pupa phase and the adult phase called the "accidentally flushed them down the toilet" phase. Sierra loves the caterpillars, but I think she loves the cherry tree she planted this year a little more...so she'll understand, right?
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I had the pleasure of needing to teach Sierra the difference between porous and non-porous surfaces today. (Actually, this training would have come in handy a few weeks back when she decided to draw a computing center on her walls for she and her imaginary friends to use for playing computer games!!) Her art fix this week is white glue. She spread it on our glass coffee table and let it dry so she could peel it off. While it doesn't bother me too much, since i know it comes off, I really wanted to make sure that she didn't decide it would be fun to put it on the sofa, carpet or any other porous object, hence the need for instruction. I told her that while i don't necessarily condone the spreading of glue on our coffee table, it is far better than the spreading of glue on any porous surfaces. I think she gets it. I hope so, at least.
She got the chance to learn about metamorphosis over the weekend. We captured two caterpillars and she put them in a jar. The next morning, one had spun a cocoon and the other was just starting one. Remember the phases...egg, larva, pupa, adult? Well, they're just happy as can be at the pupa phase right now and I found out that their adult phase is a moth that damages fruit trees, so I may have to do a little intervention between the pupa phase and the adult phase called the "accidentally flushed them down the toilet" phase. Sierra loves the caterpillars, but I think she loves the cherry tree she planted this year a little more...so she'll understand, right?
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