RE: First Children's Book to Teach the Big Bang to preschoolers
June 24, 2017 at 4:16 pm
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2017 at 5:56 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(June 24, 2017 at 3:14 pm)GeorgiasTelescope Wrote:(June 24, 2017 at 3:11 pm)Chad32 Wrote: On one hand, I wouldn't think preschoolers need to know that kind of stuff, but on the other hand I've seen a lot of churchgoers take their infants to church. So we might as well not give the theists too much of a head start on their indoctrination.
Yes – the most important part to me in writing the book was encouraging kids to analyze the world. It actually really encourages science and having them be critical and analyze and discover!
Right -- you gotta get 'em when they're young. I taught my son BB when he asked where we all came from, around four years old. He got it.
Children are a lot smarter than us adults credit them.