More Trouble With Physics

[ricevermicelli]

You would think, when you're still really short, that if you find yourself slipping off your stool while brushing your teeth, grabbing the edge of the sink might save you from a crashing fall.

This is basically true, but it also gives you a fantastic opportunity to swing from the sink edge, scraping your chin on the shelving unit beside the sink, knocking the scab off the scrape you gave yourself falling off a chair just a few days ago, and making the tip of your chin look like hamburger, traumatizing your mother far more than you hurt yourself.

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[steuard.livejournal.com]

You're torturing me here. Two posts in a row about physics, and I've got nothing entertaining to say at all.

Have you considered sending Danger Lad! out for ninja training? He could start to put those grabbing-swinging-tumbling instincts to good use.

[beth_leonard]

The bad news is it doesn't necessarily stop by the age of 5 like all those other things they tell us -- "Don't worry, by the time they go off to kindergarten they'll all be potty-trained, they'll all sleep through the night. etc."

Peter pulled a remarkably similar stunt just this evening, bruising his back instead of his chin.

--Beth

[c1.livejournal.com]

You would think, when you're still really short, that if you find yourself slipping off your stool while brushing your teeth, grabbing the edge of the sink might save you from a crashing fall.

I thought kids should be able to be taught all kinds of things, until I started reading about how kiddos' brains aren't developed completely, that they're physically incapable of "getting" certain concepts that adults take for granted, and so on. (Assumptions are indeed dangerous sometimes, but I feel comfortable that you've read and know all this stuff already.)

Probably the most earth shaking thing I've gotten from the masters program thus far.

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[drwex]

It's things like this that turn perfectly sane adults into helicopter parents, I swear.