Comments | delores: Or maybe a Scamp!

delores

Or maybe a Scamp!

Aug 31, 2008 19:41

Audrey is sort of obsessed with Pluto right now. Of course, the 4 year old mind doesn't have all the cultural and scientific literacy hooks necessary to quite make the right sense of it all. I suspect it has much to do with the mind-boggling-to-her concept that something used to be a planet, but now isn't ( Read more... )

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aldoushuxley September 1 2008, 02:22:55 UTC

And you'd definitely pack a lunch. :)

co149 September 1 2008, 15:27:55 UTC

And when she gets there, she'll be certain to put the little guy back on the shelf marked "planets" where he belongs!

morghon September 3 2008, 22:27:28 UTC

Pluto is Alice's favorite "planet" because it is so cute.

Pluto is cool, and it IS a planet! laurele December 7 2008, 06:58:16 UTC

I've been obsessed with Pluto for over two years now, mostly in fighting the unjust demotion, which was done by only four percent of the IAU and immediately opposed by an equal number of professional astronomers. What you should tell your daughter is not that Pluto used to be a planet and isn't one anymore but that people who study planets disagree on this, with some saying it's too small to be a planet and others disagreeing and saying if it's round and orbits the sun, it IS a planet. I've taught this to my five-year-old nephew, and he has no problem understanding it. Of course, in my family, we all have a pro-Pluto as a planet bias!