Each night we read a story (or portion thereof) to the kids, then tell a made-up-on-the-spot story about anything, and then sing one or two songs to the kids (each).
If you haven’t tried it, its damned hard to come up with a new made-up story each and every night – and then twice in an evening if I put the kids to bed on my own as I do two and three nights a week. While this tradition will undoubtedly continue (I’ve journaled about made-up stories before), I acted tonight on a suggestion of a friend of ours: tell Owen – in this case – that he can ask instead three questions and I would try my best to answer each in turn. Owen’s questions tonight:
1) Why are there planets?
2) When was paint first invented?
3) When was metal first invented?
Excellent questions and I spent too much time answering them and probably providing too much detail, but each answer engendered further questioning along the original’s line. I took this to be a good omen and sign of interest. I’ll journal further about the ongoing process of “3 questions” as time goes on.