Talking to Linnea
Apr. 5th, 2008 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbheToday I had an opportunity to discuss evolution from the primordial slime, extinction, and the food chain.
I turned it down.
Among other things, I'd had a little more than five hours sleep at that point, after a trying (though also delightful) day. She was clearly not well, and emotionally fragile, which leads me to believe that explaining in depth concepts such as death and eating living things and rocks in outer space crashing into the earth and killing everything might not be a great idea.
She has decided that dinosaurs weren't allowed to eat people so they had to all go away to dinosaur-land. She knows this is a pretend explanation but she's happy with it. So am I.
I turned it down.
Among other things, I'd had a little more than five hours sleep at that point, after a trying (though also delightful) day. She was clearly not well, and emotionally fragile, which leads me to believe that explaining in depth concepts such as death and eating living things and rocks in outer space crashing into the earth and killing everything might not be a great idea.
She has decided that dinosaurs weren't allowed to eat people so they had to all go away to dinosaur-land. She knows this is a pretend explanation but she's happy with it. So am I.