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Each night we read a story (or portion thereof<\/a>) to the kids, then tell a made-up-on-the-spot story about anything, and then sing one<\/a> or two<\/a> songs to the kids (each).<\/p>\n 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<\/a>), I acted tonight on a suggestion of a friend of ours<\/a>: 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:<\/p>\n 1) Why are there planets?<\/p>\n 2) When was paint first invented?<\/p>\n 3) When was metal first invented?<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![two<\/a> songs to the kids (each).<\/p>\nIf 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<\/a>), I acted tonight on a suggestion of a friend of ours<\/a>: 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:<\/p>\n1) Why are there planets?<\/p>\n2) When was paint first invented?<\/p>\n3) When was metal first invented?<\/p>\nExcellent 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.folkmusikfesten.nu\/bilder\/menlosen.jpg\"){kind=link}