Comments on: Submit your toddler's science questions! http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Mon, 20 May 2013 04:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-1108224 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1108224 My just turned 5year old preschooler Zoey asked (while sitting at the table eating lunch), "So Mrs. Brenda, do spider's pee and where do they pee?" My just turned 5year old preschooler Zoey asked (while sitting at
the table eating lunch), “So Mrs. Brenda, do spider’s pee and where do they pee?”

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-623617 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-623617 I asked this question when I was little, never got an answer: how many blocks is it to China? I asked this question when I was little, never got an answer: how many blocks is it to China?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-705804 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-705804 Plants do photosynthesis thanks to sunlight, but If leave a plant under a light bulb, will it do the same thing ? Plants do photosynthesis thanks to sunlight, but If leave a plant under a light bulb, will it do the same thing ?

]]> By: Mr_Voodoo http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-621069 Mr_Voodoo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-621069 @foxtails LOL... Thanks. Those dancing ghosts sure look happy. I guess a hearty BM lightens up even the most insubstantial of entities. @foxtails LOL… Thanks. Those dancing ghosts sure look happy. I guess a hearty BM lightens up even the most insubstantial of entities.

]]> By: jackie31337 http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-731151 jackie31337 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-731151 As a very young toddler, I asked my mother's pregnant belly "hello baby, is it dark in there?" What does a baby see in the womb? As a very young toddler, I asked my mother’s pregnant belly “hello baby, is it dark in there?” What does a baby see in the womb?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-684304 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-684304 do deaf people sign language if they talk in their sleep? my 7yr old grandson asked. do they? do deaf people sign language if they talk in their sleep? my 7yr old grandson asked. do they?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-625175 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-625175 Funny, we keep a running list of science-realted questions on our chalkboard. We record them there when we don't have time to look up the answers right away. So I'll grab the one that's currently at the top of the list: <strong>Sam, my four-year-old scientician, would like to know why poop is brown.</strong> I would be so humbly grateful if you researched this for me, because, frankly, I'm afraid to type the word "poop" into Google. I fear what the internet wants to show me. ~Tammy Funny, we keep a running list of science-realted questions on our chalkboard. We record them there when we don’t have time to look up the answers right away. So I’ll grab the one that’s currently at the top of the list:

Sam, my four-year-old scientician, would like to know why poop is brown.

I would be so humbly grateful if you researched this for me, because, frankly, I’m afraid to type the word “poop” into Google. I fear what the internet wants to show me.

~Tammy

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-640282 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-640282 My Four year old boy asked me out of the blue. "Do Dinosaurs have nipples"????? I should have watch jurasic Park because i couldn'answer that one. My Four year old boy asked me out of the blue.
“Do Dinosaurs have nipples”?????
I should have watch jurasic Park because i couldn’answer that one.

]]> By: purplehoneybee http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-621084 purplehoneybee Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-621084 yes, watch dinosaur train, on pbs. yes, watch dinosaur train, on pbs.

]]> By: purplehoneybee http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-621086 purplehoneybee Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-621086 how do you stop the wind? how do you stop the wind?

]]> By: fatcat1111 http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-621345 fatcat1111 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-621345 I just ran this open invitation to ask any science question passed my little daughter, and she asks: "What types of body cells have other cells in them?" Funny, since I never imagined this. Do they even exist? I know that some organelles were once bacteria (e.g., mitocondria and chloroplasts), so some did at one point, but I don't know the answer to her question. I just ran this open invitation to ask any science question passed my little daughter, and she asks: “What types of body cells have other cells in them?” Funny, since I never imagined this. Do they even exist? I know that some organelles were once bacteria (e.g., mitocondria and chloroplasts), so some did at one point, but I don’t know the answer to her question.

]]> By: fatcat1111 http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-621348 fatcat1111 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-621348 *passed == past, in this case :) *passed == past, in this case :)

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-1050920 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1050920 My three-year-old just asked me "where does blood come from?" Where/how in your body is it made? My three-year-old just asked me “where does blood come from?” Where/how in your body is it made?

]]> By: sacksomophone http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-622123 sacksomophone Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-622123 Do you think... that George Bush... is circumcised? as quoted in a Hampshire College graduate speech, spring 2005 Do you think…
that George Bush…
is circumcised?

as quoted in a Hampshire College graduate speech, spring 2005

]]> By: 2fries http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-725806 2fries Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-725806 My daughter and I watched a program on crocodiles and saw that they were unable to close their mouths if their noses were continually tapped with a stick. She would like to know if the same thing has been tested on sharks? My daughter and I watched a program on crocodiles and saw that they were unable to close their mouths if their noses were continually tapped with a stick. She would like to know if the same thing has been tested on sharks?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-623407 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-623407 I'm told that I asked my grandma (while sitting in my carseat in the back of her yellow VW bug) barely old enough to talk... "Grandma, what makes dirt." She tells me she answered "God did." Although it's a fair answer, what's your take? I’m told that I asked my grandma (while sitting in my carseat in the back of her yellow VW bug) barely old enough to talk… “Grandma, what makes dirt.” She tells me she answered “God did.” Although it’s a fair answer, what’s your take?

]]> By: Vanessa6 http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-626485 Vanessa6 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-626485 "How do we talk?" - 3 year old As in how do sounds come out of us into words. Describing a voice box and air and vibrations is only part of it I think. “How do we talk?” – 3 year old

As in how do sounds come out of us into words. Describing a voice box and air and vibrations is only part of it I think.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-697910 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-697910 My almost-3-year-old asked me last week whether birds hiccup or sneeze. My almost-3-year-old asked me last week whether birds hiccup or sneeze.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-729399 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-729399 How do they know what color dinosaurs were? How do they know what color dinosaurs were?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-677689 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-677689 The last time that we went to Mammoth cave the guide told us that the creatures down there lose all pigment due to no need for it and the complete darkness. My son proceeded to ask me if these creatures blood was still red. We asked the guide and she had no idea. Does the iron in the blood still make it red or does it lose it's pigment over the years as well? The last time that we went to Mammoth cave the guide told us that the creatures down there lose all pigment due to no need for it and the complete darkness. My son proceeded to ask me if these creatures blood was still red. We asked the guide and she had no idea. Does the iron in the blood still make it red or does it lose it’s pigment over the years as well?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-627513 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-627513 I can answer the question in comment #20, "How do you stop the wind?" Buy a nice kite and go out to the park to fly it. The wind will stop. The day will become still and calm. So here's a followup question, "Where does the wind go when you get to the park with your kite?" I can answer the question in comment #20, “How do you stop the wind?”

Buy a nice kite and go out to the park to fly it. The wind will stop. The day will become still and calm.

So here’s a followup question, “Where does the wind go when you get to the park with your kite?”

]]> By: lekfowle http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-620871 lekfowle Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-620871 I have a question that stumped me. My four-year-old daughter, Aurelia, asked me why the earth rotates. I have a question that stumped me. My four-year-old daughter, Aurelia, asked me why the earth rotates.

]]> By: ECKlein http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-621129 ECKlein Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-621129 Do crabs poop? How much does the sky weigh? Those are just two from my kid (3.5 yrold) that I enjoyed recently (and didn't answer very well). Do crabs poop? How much does the sky weigh? Those are just two from my kid (3.5 yrold) that I enjoyed recently (and didn’t answer very well).

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-950602 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-950602 My four and half year old "Why is Grandma's face falling off?" My four and half year old “Why is Grandma’s face falling off?”

]]> By: Simeon http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-620879 Simeon Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-620879 From my 5 yr old boy: Why do I have nipples if I'm not going to get boobies? Why has Daddy got an arm beard? Where's Mummy's willy? Did she lose it? From my 5 yr old boy:
Why do I have nipples if I’m not going to get boobies?
Why has Daddy got an arm beard?
Where’s Mummy’s willy? Did she lose it?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-625231 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-625231 When I was a wee tot I asked my severely religious grandmother where do babies come from. Her response was 'the birth canal'. Smooth, very smooth. For the better part of my childhood, I had the mental image of swaddled babies floating in Venetian canal boats. I couldn't reconcile that for the longest time..... When I was a wee tot I asked my severely religious grandmother where do babies come from. Her response was ‘the birth canal’.

Smooth, very smooth.

For the better part of my childhood, I had the mental image of swaddled babies floating in Venetian canal boats. I couldn’t reconcile that for the longest time…..

]]> By: Nectar http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-620881 Nectar Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-620881 Two from my 4 year old son: Why can't we see black holes? Do snakes get hot? Two from my 4 year old son:

Why can’t we see black holes?

Do snakes get hot?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-633681 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-633681 My then 2 year old son asked my mother out of the blue: "What's the difference between smoke and steam?" My then 2 year old son asked my mother out of the blue: “What’s the difference between smoke and steam?”

]]> By: Chris Williams http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-620885 Chris Williams Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-620885 He's no longer a toddler, but this morning, as I was walking him to school, my 7 year old asked me "How fast is the universive expanding?" I felt this to be unfair. He’s no longer a toddler, but this morning, as I was walking him to school, my 7 year old asked me “How fast is the universive expanding?”

I felt this to be unfair.

]]> By: Chundermutton http://boingboing.net/2009/10/26/submit-your-toddlers.html#comment-620886 Chundermutton Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-620886 my 4 year old cousin: "Which is more powerful: a white blood cell, or a skateboarder?" my 4 year old cousin:

“Which is more powerful: a white blood cell, or a skateboarder?”

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