My 7 year old son schools teacher and class on evolution

[Blanca]

I explained to her that what he meant by that is that the human species had evolved into being in Africa, and since humans are nothing more than apes, everyone is an African ape, not just her, and not just black people.

Good for your son! But just a small point, scientists do not believe humans evolved from apes but from ape-like creatures. we share a common ancestor with apes but did not evolve from them. See link below for more details:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/librar...cat02.html

We are apes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae

oh yes, i thought you said we evolved from apes. my mistake.

[theVOID]

And the Mum of the year award goes to: aleialoura!

[Erinome]

And the Mum of the year award goes to: aleialoura!

Thank you very much, but I don't see it that way. I do what I feel I am supposed to do, which is inform my children about the world as it actually is from what is known. It also helps that the first celebrities my kids could identify were scientists. We talk a lot of science, and I encourage a lot of questions. If that makes me the mom of the year, then I'm happy to accept.

[kılıç_mehmet]

I smiled while reading this story.

[AthiestAtheist]

Eerie, I had a 1st grade teacher named Mrs. Evans, and she's black. I wonder if it's the same woman? Does she often wear a bright red dress?

[Erinome]

She's pretty old. Been teaching in and around Nashville for ages. I don't know about the red dress. I'll have to ask the boy.

[Violet]

At first, I thought that the 'burping abc' meme was because he looked so much like Hammy from Over The Hedge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfXPsKQh4lM

But now I know that it was all him!

[Handprint]

I want to know what the class's reaction was to his presentation.

[Napoléon]

I want to know what the class's reaction was to his presentation.

They were probably too busy picking boogers from out their nose than actually paying attention.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

He can fart on demand sometimes. He thinks farting is the bees knees.

Roald Dahl wrote a book called BFG (Big Friendly Giant) in which fart jokes are common. If he has not read it, a 7 yo would love it. If there is one thing children consider funnier than farting themselves, it's an adult farting.

If you’re unfamiliar the story it is sort of a Peter Pan type deal, in which a young girl is whisked into the hidden world of giants, all of which are hideous evil troll-like creatures save for the large-eared old man she befriends. The man makes his living with the aforementioned dream collection/distribution, and because of his refusal to eat humans lives off a diet of disgusting food and drink, the later of which makes him rather gaseous (to the point that he can fly). There’s even a song about it…

http://www.chud.com/68530/dreamworks-pic...are-canon/


Below one of my all-time favourite TV ads.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSk_TSKutiU




PS PLEASE tell of his class' reaction to his presentation. I'm dying of curiosity. I also very much need to be reassured he is not the only bright kid in his class. (I also think fundy parental responses would be pretty entertaining)

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I want to know what the class's reaction was to his presentation.

They were probably too busy picking boogers from out their nose than actually paying attention.

Love this line: "my little nose miners" (Mrs Doubtfire)