children's mind

note : I am tired. i am very tired. i am just tired. for the whole week, i am tired. i am tired but i can't sleep in the afternoons. i am tired

observing children sometimes is funny. they have the most 'dreamy' mind i have ever seen. or i should say, as we grow older, we tend to be more and more realistic. yes. we need to be realistic to survive in this world. here are some examples..

all meat eating animals are bad
i realised that children are prone to be afraid of all meat eating animals. for children, meat eaters are bad, evil and scary. maybe is because of the childhood nursery rhymes like 'the big bad wolf'', snakes, lions, and tigers always play the bad guys in disney cartoons. but in reality, almost all meat eaters are now endangered and staying in the red list. imagine telling a kid that we need to safe a tiger.. "but tigers are bad.. they eat meat!!!" how will you respond?? what happen to good ol bouncy tigger?? or imagine a meat eating winnie the pooh

lines can mean anything to them.
there is once my student saw a line of something in the sky which i presume the line of water vapour when a jet fly past. he told me that its the ghost crossing the sky. and he insisted i saw it too!! other than this, give a child a whiteboard marker and a white board. see their art work and try understanding it. i bet u cannot understand them without them explaining it to you.
[draws a stick man with long lines] "this is mr long arms." "he has LooOOOooOOoooOooOOoOooOnnnnNNnnnNnnNnggGGgggGgggGg arms and he beats bad people" [me thinking.. the arms looks like maggie mee... *stomach growls*]

anything can be a game to them.
put two erasers on a slope and let them slide can be a game to them. a stack up ruller can be a game. running around the table can be a game. everything and anything can be a game. and for me, i can give you a long winded explaination on why the eraser slides down, stuff like gravity, friction bla bla bla.... and for children, it will be 'I WIN YOU, LOSE HA HA HA!!!'

almost everything has poison or bite.
have they ever heard of antidote?? oh man.. i have heard to many harmless things with poison tru children's mouth and all of them made me 'sweat' in buckets. if i can lauf that time.. i will. and i will laugh out loud and hard.. but no. its not possible. Poisonous household ants anyone?? or.. poisonous biting earthworm?? or a biting starfish?? maybe a meat eating panda anyone??

there are many more new things can be learn about them. suddently i really wish to be a small kid.. carefree, relax, run all over the place, and leave the stress to other people. *nostalgic*

p/s: children has good memory too... so dun play play with them....