There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio

"And the sun ran away from the moon...because he doesn't like the moon...then the sun is like 'aaaaah! where's my juice?!'"

On the way home from dance yesterday the sun was setting and the moon coming up and Anna starts to sing nursery rhymes.  Hey diddle diddle, the cat in the fiddle, "And the sun ran away from the moon...because he doesn't like the moon...then the sun is like 'aaaaah! where's my juice?!'"  This is Anna's take on why the sun goes down.  It just doesn't like the moon because the the moon chases it around.  So the sun goes to bed with a sippee cup.   

This is what happens when you try to give a legitimate answer to kids questions about their surroundings.   I believe children should learn as much as they can about science from an early age.  Peak their interest early and it just might stick.

When Riley was about 4, we were driving one night and she said "the moon's following us."  I said "It sure does look that way, doesn't it?  But really what's happening is..."  "I know, I know" she said.  "It's cause we're spinning around and we're not flat."  It made me realize that little people are capable of grasping concepts that we don't give them credit for.  They listen even when we don't think they are sometimes.  We have a responsibility to feed their brains!