No answer but an anecdote.
When my son was 3 years old, he walked very proudly with a stick as walkers do 
with a cane.
After some time he came running towards me.
He had seen the shadow of the stick and told me weeping: "another stick always 
comes to mine"


Willy Leenders
Hasselt in Flanders (Belgium)

Visit my website about the sundials in the province of Limburg (Flanders) with 
a section 'worth knowing about sundials' (mostly in Dutch): 
http://www.wijzerweb.be







Op 29-mrt-2013, om 08:56 heeft Frank King het volgende geschreven:

> Dear All,
> 
> Widely reported in U.K. news reports
> today are the top five questions
> that children ask their mothers:
> 
>  1) Why is water wet?
> 
>  2) Where does the sky end?
> 
>  3) What are shadows made of?
> 
>  4) Why is the sky blue?
> 
>  5) How do fish breathe under water?
> 
> I am delighted to note that children
> are seemingly so interested in our
> subject area; questions 2, 3 and 4 are
> definitely sundial related!
> 
> Clearly we should try to exploit this
> enthusiasm.  Meantime...
> 
> Could some Mum on this list please let
> us know the answer she gives to Q3?
> 
> Frank H. King
> Cambridge, U.K.
> 
> Example References:
> 
> http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/28/idUSnMKW103a+70+MKW20130328
> 
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9959026/Mothers-asked-nearly-300-questio
> ns-a-day-study-finds.html
> 
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