so asking her concrete questions like "what is a star?" mostly elicits PANIC from her...
because she's thinking "do you mean SCIENTIFICALLY?? At what level? At the level of the reading selection? So what is that.... about fourth grade? Sixth grade?? What do sixth graders know about astronomy, anyway?"
Er-- or does it mean the metaphorical use of the word "star" in this story? Can I give more than one definition??
AUGHHHHH!!!
Never fails.
ROFL... OMG she's me... An example would be a question DS (then 4ish) asked while we were out walking one day... he said "Mama, which tree is bigger?" I was utterly paralyzed. Taller? Wider? More branches? More rings? More pine needles? More mass? Are you freakin' serious, asking me something like that??? DEFINE BIGGER!!!
I drive most people crazy.
