Archive for the 'Science Outings' Category

We love the Zürich Zoo!!!

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Or, in the words of my five-year-old Léo, “The zoo is my best walk.”
When I was younger, I was conflicted about zoos. It’s interesting for me to get to see exotic animals in real life, but does that justify putting the majestic lion in a concrete jail cell, not to mention the number of [...]

“You do not walk up to a complete stranger and criticize their parenting”

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Here’s an interesting incident described by one of the bloggers from my ex-Mormon blogroll (Outer Blogness):
While we were in that room with Lucy, looking at the diorama of evolution, some woman walks up and asks Lizz, “Did I hear you correctly when you said that ’some people believe in evolution’?”
This led to the following:
The entire [...]

Our Visit to the Solar System!

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

My kids are really into the solar system these days. As I mentioned in Love of Learning, they’ve been drawing and coloring pictures of the solar system, and lately they’ve taken to playing with toy planets and inventing their own imaginary planetary system (called “the imaginary solar system” — it includes two “Giant Earths,” [...]

Rational moms of the world unite!