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Teaching the Kiddies
Sep 17th
I have a five year old boy, some of you may know that already. Part ofthe joy of having kids is teaching them. Now having a slight scientific bent a lot of questions I answer tend to be about science or things I point out are about science. Recently J said that he was not part of me as he came from his mummy and not from me so he could not be “from” me. So without going into squishy details I still have to explain this one.
It was not that hard, but some of the credit goes to a computer game called “Cloning Clyde”. In this game the character has clones, I did mention that these meant copies but did not want to go there. There are also things to collect like DNA symbols around the place, also the character gets merged with chickens and sheep and monkeys, I explained that Clyde’s DNA and the sheep’s were merged to make a clyde-sheep (look its only a game its not real, before you start on that one). Those ideas seems to have settled in his mind. Other conversations we have had have involved that living things are made from cells, More >
Progress
Jun 25th
For those that know me, you will be aware that we had a little boy born in January. Logan was a worry from day 1 as he was born six weeks early and shuffled off to a little plastic box.
Since we got him home he’s been constantly medicated, mostly vitamins and will be for the next year, but also ever feed has Gaviscon in it as he has a reflux problem too. The general medical populous blaming his screaming on colic. We were lucky I suppose in having access to a pediatrician who just said babies cry for a reason, his is reflux. Have this, prescription for boxes of Gaviscon.
Now he is six months old and big, very big, above the norm for a child his age, let alone a child that should be only 4.5 months developmental (six weeks early).
Not everyone will have access to my Flickr stream, so here he is, happy, smiley little chap.
If your wondering, Logan is named after Wolverine, Jarreth is the king of the goblins (Labyrinth).