That’s fantastic! What a great discussion – and it sounds as though you handled a tricky subject very well. It never hurts kids to be told that an adult DOESN’T in fact know everything about a particular subject. The latest New Scientist has an article about Nine Things in Science We Thought We Were Sure About But Which Turn Out Not to Be Quite the Way We Thought – not the exact title, but the meaning.
20 whole minutes?? very envious, especially since it’s June!
That’s fantastic! What a great discussion – and it sounds as though you handled a tricky subject very well. It never hurts kids to be told that an adult DOESN’T in fact know everything about a particular subject. The latest New Scientist has an article about Nine Things in Science We Thought We Were Sure About But Which Turn Out Not to Be Quite the Way We Thought – not the exact title, but the meaning.
wow – i never even heard about australopithecus when i was 7!
those are some very lucky kids, to have you!!