Thursday, November 8, 2012

Time is Confusing

"A little of a lot... that's what doesn't make any sense..."

Sawyer was asking when Daddy would be home.  I said "two hours".  He told me "that's not a very long time." I replied with "well, it's about 120 minutes."  "120 minutes?!" he exclaimed.  "Yep."  "That doesn't make any sense.  That's a little of a lot of numbers."

He explained further, later, that what was really confusing to him (confused eyebrows and all) was that it was a little number (only TWO hours) but it meant a bigger number (ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY minutes).

We are constantly working on the concept of time.  I understand this will take many more years.

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