Jul. 7, 2008
Red + Yellow
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One of the truly odd things about my kids is the asynchrony of the way they learn. Bunny, the youngest, is four. He can read most level one readers and some level two. He can count to twenty without help. He can count higher with help. He can find Paris, France on a map. He can build amazing things with legos. But until today he couldn't tell you what color you get when you mixed red and yellow. So today I got out the red and yellow paints and let him mix them together and get orange. He made orange and was amazed. So I asked him if he thought that we would get orange if we mixed red and yellow again. And he said no. My little boy did not believe in the repeatability of mixing colors. So we repeated the process. He was amazed that we got orange again. But still did not believe that it would work a third time... so we repeated again. And only on the fourth time we mixed red and yellow could he predict that it would be orange when we were done. I wonder if I am raising a young scientist... "I won't believe the results until I have done the experiment multiple times and gotten the same thing" with a bonus of "I need to do it myself or I won't believe". Or maybe he is just weird. |
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