Bedtime stories

Mira's bed time story books consists of only the below. I find it too heavy a reading for a 5 year old but she insists. Her Question for the Day for today.

" If space has no gravity, how do the planets go around the sun and not free fall???"

Answer that !!

Gender high level thinking questions

Questions on gender from Mira. What would your answer be when caught off guard?

1. Can boyfriends have boyfriends?

2. If Aminah's( her classmate) father said girls cannot live with boys in the same house until they are married, how is it Snow White stayed with 7 boys in one house?

Science and reality

I was revising with Brinda yesterday on electricity. Std 5 chapter. Sources of electricity was dry cell, accumulator,dynamo and solar cells. Drilling deeper i asked
Me: where can you use dry cell?
Brinda: in torchlights,watches.
Me : what do use accumulator s for?
brinda : for starting the car and radio.
Me : good one Brinda. What do use dynamo for?
Brinda: wash clothes and make slime.

Oh dear!!!!

After school plans

One day before primary 1 entrance exam, Mira my 5 year old told me, Mira: Amma, tomorrow is school exams. Me and Tisha have got it all planned out.
Amma: Oh really? What did you plan?
Mira: First we will go for exam, then we will go and have some food , then go somewhere to play.

Massive planning for a 5 year old. How will it be when she becomes a teen, i wonder?

The mind of a 5 year old

On bed , putting Mira to sleep, i hugged her and said i wish i could hug her all the whole day, to which she responded:

Mira : Tell your boss to not call you tomorrow
Me : Why
Mira : So you can hug me the whole day
Me : But then , you will be going to school , then i would be alone at home.
Mira : No i don't have to go to school. Lets just stop school and work and go off on an adventure to all the countries in the world.
Me : All the countries?
Mira : Yes all the countries, not planets though.
Me : why not planets?
Mira : Cause there are more countries than planets
Me : Fair enough. But we need lots of money to travel.
Mira: You can use all the money in my Frozen Coin Box ( Thats her piggy bank)
Me : Thanks Mira, but that still wont be enough. We need thousands of Frozen boxes.
Mira : We will take akka's money as well. Its more fun to travel than to buy books with all those money...

The mind of a 5 year old is far less complex than adults but in such an innocent way. I am definitely going to miss this when she grows up..