At 03:21 PM 6/22/2011, Terry Blanton wrote:
I don't know if her life is more enjoyable, but her path to the
theatre is longer. Quoting: "Eeew, that's nasty!"
Normal girl.
I found a large spider dead on my bathroom floor, and showed it to my
two young daughters. Both of them recoiled. It really was a large
spider, very ugly. Or ... hey, very beautiful, it's all in how it's
framed! Both of them were interested to see the leg under the
microscope. "Daddy, it's way cool that you have a microscope!"
So ... gum on the ground, notice how the gum is more plentiful the
closer you get to the waste container. You could teach statistics
with this, just right for a certain age; the gross factor would
actually increase interest. I think it's great to get kids over this
hump of instinctive revulsion. After all, there are reasons to be
instinctively "jumpy" about a large spider, but no reason to fear it
once you know it's dead. No reason to get upset over that gum, unless
you are tasked with cleaning it up!
And then you give them the right tools and suggest that they approach
the theater to get paid to clean it up.... I could imagine a nice
little contract.... All it would take is a little research into what
works with gum on that surface. And they can wear gloves.
And then they start to see the world as being full of interesting
stuff and opportunities.
